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2. Lent, tener, pileo tcnui regulari late infundibuliformi ropando cervino 

 fibris fasciculatis subcrispis vestito subtus sericeo-striato margine sub- 

 sulcato, stipite gracili aequali pallido grannlato-furfuraceo, lamellis 

 subdistantibus pallido-ligneis opacis lato-denticulatis glandulosis decur- 

 reMtibus postice vix anastomosantibus. 



Lent, tener, Klotzsch ; Fries Syn. Lent. p. 6, Epicr. p. 389 ; Berk, in Hook. 



Land. Journ. of Bot. ii. p. .'J62. 

 Hab. in ligno, in Mont. Organ, Gardner; ad Novum Aureliam, Klotzsch. 



3. Lent. SchomburgJcvi, pileo teniii late infnndibuliformi repando cervino 

 floccis mollibus fasciculatis leviter crispatis vestito demum medio snb- 

 glabrescente sericeo-striato, sti]>ite requali sublurido parce furfuraceo 

 apice sericeo, lamellis confertis tenuibus decurrcntibus postice anasto- 

 mosantibus pallide cervinis eglanduloais acie denticulatis. 



Hab. in ligno sicco, in Guiana Britannica, Schomhurgk. 



4. Ljcnt. nigripes, Fries. 



On the synonymy of this species, as well as of the two preceding, 

 Mr. Berkeley makes some observations. 



5. Le?it. Leveiilei, pileo tenui late infundibuliformi repando explanato 

 rigidiusculo floccis crispatis subfasciculatis rarioribus vestito, stipite 

 aequali nigro-furfuraceo, lamellis confertis fuscatis decurrcntibus glan- 

 dulosis ochraceis acie granulato-dentatis postice vix anastomosantibus. 



Hab. ad Surinam. 



March 4. — R. Brown, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Read the commencement of " An Enumeration of the Plants of 

 the Galapagos Islands." By J. D. Hooker, Esq., M.D., F.L.S. &c. 



Read also some Additions and Corrections to his " Monograph of 

 the Myriapoda Chilopoda " read during the last Session. By George 

 Newport, Esq. Communicated by the Secretary. 



These additions have reference chiefly to the characters and habits 

 of the family Lithobiida, and to the genus Scolopendrella of M. Ger- 

 vais. This genus Mr. Newport had in his Synopsis Generum (Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. vol. xiv. p. 50) proposed to refer as a subfamily to Geophi- 

 lid(B ; but on a closer examination of its characters, he finds that they 

 indicate a much higher type of development and approximate it very 

 nearly to LithohiidtB. He proposes therefore to establish Scolopendrel- 

 lida as a separate family, and to place them next after Lithobiidce. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



April 10, 1845.— Dr. Seller, V.P., in the Chair. 



A valuable donation of South American plants, from Robert Brown, 

 Esq., was announced, for which the special thanks of the Society 

 were returned. 



The following communications were read : — 



1 . " On a monstrous variety of Gentiana campestris," by Dr. Dickie 

 of Aberdeen. (See Annals, present Number, p. 387.) 



2. " On the correct nomenclature of the Lastrcea spinosa and L, 

 mvltifiora of Newman," by Mr. Babington. (See p. 322.) 



3. " Account of a Botanical Excursion to the Mull of Can tyre and 

 Island of Islay in August 1844," by Prof. Balfour of Glasgow. 



Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Vol. xv, 2 G 



