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Hierochloe may likewise be got. It also fringes the edge of the 

 river. But the plant must be looked for at the time indicated ; for 

 by the third week of June, the beauty of Hierochlo'e has passed away, 

 and by the first week of July the herbage has become so rank, that 

 the Holy Grass, now ripe, and turned of a silky brown, is completely- 

 hidden from view. Farther up, between Geize and a section of 

 boulder clay a little below Todholes, the plant may likewise be picked 

 in hundreds. Hierochloe has never failed to appear in these localities 

 for twenty years." 



5. " On the occurrence of 'Cinchonaceous Glands' in Galiacece, and 

 on the relations of that Order to Cinchonacece,'" by Mr. G. Lawson. 

 This paper will be found in the * Annals ' for September, and in the 

 Society's Transactions. 



6. " Notes of a Trip to Inchkeith and Inchcolm," by Professor 

 Balfour. The Professor found upon Inchkeith 132 flowering plants 

 and 6 ferns; on Inchcolm he saw 160 of the former class of plants 

 and 4 of the latter. 



The following were the principal plants found on Inchkeith : — 

 Sinapis nigra, Cochlearia danica. Geranium praterise, Conium macu- 

 latum, Haloscias scoticum, Sambucus (nigra var.) laciniata, Silybum 

 tnarianum, Carduus acanthoides, Senecio viscosus, Hyoscyamus niger^ 

 Linaria Cymbalariai Marrubium vulgare, Habenaria viridis^ Carex 

 distans and vulpina, and Sclerochloa maritima. 



On Inchcolm : — Cochlearia danica^ Papaver somniferum, Cheiran- 

 thus Cheiri, Dipsacus sylvestris, Haloscias scoticum, Hyoscyamus 

 niger, and Parittaria erecta. 



7. *' Observations on the Morphology of Pines," by Professor 

 M'Cosh. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On the Coenurus cerebralis of the Sheep. By Dr. Kuchenmeister*. 



On the 6th January 1854, at 8 o'clock in the evening, and on the 

 7th January, at 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon, I gave some mature pro- 

 glottides of the Tcenia coenutnis of the dog to six lambs of from six 

 to nine months old, taken from three different flocks, which were not 

 subject to vertigo. On the 20th January, the animals exhibited the 

 first symptoms of vertigo. They were then successively killed, and 

 presented the following phsenomena on examination. 



On the seventeenth day after introduction, from twenty to thirty 

 vesicles {Ccenuri) inhabited the surface of the brain ; the substance 

 of the orain was hollowed into galleries, as though a Sarcoptes had 

 been forming its passage ; the vesicles were still free and without 

 envelopes, and of the size of a grain of millet. 



* The experiments here detailed were made previously to those of 

 Prof. Van Beneden, of which we gave a notice in our last Number. The 

 ])roglottides employed by the learned Professor of Louvain, were derived 

 tVom Taenias produced from the Canuri obtained in these experiments of 

 Dr. KUehenmeister. 



