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in which, among many others enumerated, we notice, as perhaps the 

 most interesting, the Agaricus applicants of Withering ; a plant not 

 mentioned by Dr Greville in his Flora Edinensis, and which, therefore, 

 may be considered as a fresh addition to the Scottish Cryptogamic Flora. 

 In the minutes of the same meeting, we find recorded the discovery of 

 the Mentha sylvestris, by Mr Dunlop, at Blanerne, on the Whittadder ; 

 while our zealous botanical contributor, Mr Brown, among other good 

 plants, gives us the Calicium Sph&rocephalum, Parmelia caperatus, 

 Vaccinium Oxycoccus or Cranberry, and Endocarpon Weberi, forming 

 altogether a valuable contribution to the botany of Berwickshire. At 

 the same meeting, Dr Johnston communicated a list of the Echinoder- 

 mata of Berwickshire, a very curious and interesting class of Marine 

 Animals, the species of which now existing on the British coast appear 

 to be few in number, though, in former times, they seem to have been 

 more abundant and prolific. Belonging to the third family of this or- 

 der of animals, Dr Johnston notices in particular one animal, of which 

 he has made a new genus under the name of Fleminia muricata, in 

 honour of the Rev. Dr Fleming, who has done so much to remove the 

 obscurity under which the species lay previously to the publication of 

 his History of British Animals. The individual thus added to our 

 marine animals has been presented, by its discoverer, to the British 

 Museum, where it is now deposited. A notice of an Albino family by 

 Mr Embleton, and a continuation of his Meteorological Table for the pre- 

 ceding three months, concluded the business of this meeting. 



The third meeting of the Club was held at Cockburnspath, on the 3d 

 Wednesday of April 1833, a season when the naturalist begins once 

 more to look around him with new hope and interest, and when nature, 

 after the gloom and the repose of winter, begins once more to array 

 herself in her robes of cheerfulness and beauty. The peculiarly back- 

 ward state of the season, however, prevented the Club from making any 

 very remarkable additions to the natural history of the county, and tended 

 not a little to damp the expectations and the hopes which, both the return 

 of spring and the natural beauty of the scenery of the neighbourhood had 

 excited. Still, however, notwithstanding the heavy showers, and the un- 

 usual coldness of the wind, the meeting was neither without enjoyment nor 

 interest. Dunglass Dean at all events, was visited, and miserable indeed 

 must be the day which will render it unworthy of unbounded and un- 

 mingled admiration. Occurring in this beautiful station, two new plants, 

 new I mean to the Flora of Berwickshire, were gathered by the Rev. 

 John Baird. The one was the Chrysospleniwn alternifolium, occurring 

 mixed with the more frequent species, Chr. oppositifoliw*; the other 

 was the Marchantia conica, growing on moist banks in considerable 

 abundance, and in fine fruit. Various species of land shells were also 

 gathered in the sheltered recesses of the dean. Among the communica- 

 tions read at this meeting, we have to notice, with much pleasure, seve- 



