SfO Linmsan Society, 



Gn the borders of the corn-fields upon the barren hills around Gra- 

 nada I observed the very rare Cirsium echinatum^ DC, and also Al- 

 chemilla Aphanes, L., Minuartia montana, Loffl., and other plants. 

 From the 24th to the 27th of June I stayed on the Sierra Nevada, 

 and ascended on the 25th to a height of 8000 feet, but could not 

 proceed further on account of the immense quantity of snow. Here, 

 on the edge of the melting snow, above the limestone rocks of the 

 Dornajo, I gathered Pyrethrum radicans, Lag., as well as Ranunculus 

 acetosellcefolius, Boiss., in great plenty, which I had never before 

 seen growing at so low an altitude. On the alpine meadows known 

 by the name of Prado de las Yeguas, which are situated above the 

 Cortijo de San Geronimo on the right acclivity of the valley of the 

 Monachil, flowered Ranunculus cheer ophyllus, L., Silene conica, L., 

 Papaver Argemone, L., Cerastium ramosissimum, Boiss., TetragonO' 

 lohus siliquosus, DC, a Myosotis, various grasses, and in its highest 

 part Doronicum scorpioides, W. On the western acclivity of the 

 Dornajo, which I then ascended for the fourth time, I gathered, 

 amongst other plants, the pretty Helianthemum piliferum, Boiss. ; 

 also on the south upon boulders Convolvulus nitidus, Boiss., which 

 was just beginning to flower, and on shady rocks of the eastern accli- 

 vity Sisymbrium laxiflorum, Boiss., Linaria verticillata, Boiss., Bu- 

 nium Macuca, Boiss., Butinia bunioides, Boiss., Saxifraga spathulata, 

 Desf., Draba hispanica, Boiss. On the way down from the Dornajo 

 into the valley of the Jenil over the woody Dehesa de la Vibora I 

 found Passerina elliptica, Boiss., which occurs very sparingly on 

 limestone rocks below the Dornajo, and in the copse -wood the pretty 

 Anthericum bmticum, Boiss., also Ononis arragonensis, Asso., Saro- 

 thamnus scoparius, Wimm., and Pceonia lobata, Desf., Adenocarpus 

 decorticans, Boiss., was still in flower ; and lastly I found on my 

 return to Granada between the villages of Guejar Sierra and Pinos 

 del Jenil on sandy soil Linaria Salzmanni, Boiss., a pretty species 

 with purple flowers. 



[To be continued.] 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



LINN^AN SOCIETY, 



June 17, 1845. — Edward Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Read ** Characters of undescribed species of British Chalcidites." 

 By Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S. &c. 



The following are the characters of the species described : — 



1. Pteromalus acrotatus?, viridis, abdomine cupreo, antennis piceis, 

 pedibus fulvis ; coxis femoribusque basi viridibus, alis fuscis. — Long, 

 cofp. lin. 1 ; alar. lin. IJ. 



Hab. in Scotia, prope Lanark, mense Julio. 



2. Pteromalus suNiDESc^et ? , viridis, abdomine seneo ; maris fulvo-ma- 

 culato, antennis nigris, pedibus maris flavis foemina^ fulvis ; femoribus 

 fusco-variis, ahs limpidis. — Long. corp. Hn. 1^; alar. lin. 1| — 2. 



Hab. in Scotii, prope Edinam, Dr, Greville. 



