NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. XXV 



Mr. James J. F. X. King exhibited a beautiful specimen 

 of the King Bird, Clnchinurus reglics, L., from the Malay 

 Archipelago. 



Mr. Thomas Scott, Corresponding Member, exhibited a collec- 

 tion of Land and Fresh- water Mollusca and Land Isopoda from 

 Bute, and communicated some interesting notes on the various 

 species and their distribution.* 



Mr. Peter Ewing exhibited a specimen of a Care.c, apparently 

 new to science, found by him near the ridge between Forfar- 

 shire and Aberdeenshire in 1884, and submitted a description of 

 the plant, which he had named Cavex spiralis, t He showed a 

 complete series of specimens of the British species of Pottia, 

 mounted for microscopic examination, also specimens of the 

 following mosses : 



Gr lunula torqicata, Grev. — Glenshee. 



atrata, Miel. — Canlochan. 

 Tetraplodon angustatus, (L. fil.) Hedw. — Glenshee. 

 Mnium affiue, Bland., var. rugicwm, Laur. — Lochnagar. 

 The Chairman (Dr. Stirton) exhibited specimens of the follow- 

 ing mosses : 

 Dldymodon cyllndrlcus, Bruch. — Campsie; in fruit. 

 Daldluianus, Schpr. — Dunoon. 



turgesceus, Stirton. — Ben Lawers ; new to science. 

 Zygodon ptycliophilus, Stirton.— Bowling, 1864; new to science. 



Stirtoni, Schpr. — Cherbourg (M. Le Jolts). 

 Grlmmia sublurlda, Stirton.— Harris, 1886; new to science. 

 Mr. D. A. Boyd exhibited specimens of the following plants 

 from North Ayrshire : 

 Saxlfraga alzoides, L. — Towergill Glen, Largs. 



hypnoides, L. — Kaim Hill, West Kilbride. 

 Chrysospleniwin altemifolluin, L. — Towergill Glen. 

 Vacclnlum Vitis-Idcea, L. — Kaim Hill. 

 Hymenopliyllxim tcnilaterale, Willd. — Kaim Hill. 

 Audrecea alplua, Turn. — Noddsdale, Largs: in fruit. 

 Gymuostomum teuue, Schrad. — Kirkland Glen, West Kilbride. 

 Pottia mluutula, Schwg. — Portincross, West Kilbride ; in fruit. 



intermedia, Turn. — Portincross ; in fruit. 

 Barbula tortuosa, L. — Kaim Hill. 

 Encalypta elllata, Hedw. — Noddsdale ; in fruit. 

 Zlcrla julacea, Schpr. — Kaim Hill. 

 Bryum alplnum, L. — Noddsdale; in fruit. 



Toseum, Schreb. — Towergill Glen. 

 Milium undulatum, Hedw.— Towergill Glen ; in fruit. 

 Fissidens osmundoldes, Hedw. — Greeto Glen, Largs. 

 Neckera crlspa, L. — Towergill Glen ; in fruit. Kaim Hill ; sterile. 

 Rhyiichostegium depressum, Bruch. — Portincross. 



* Transactions, vol. ii., p. 125. t Tbid., ]>. 110. 



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