130 L'ntihtuin Society. 



" Notice of B curious Aquatic Larva found in B water-jug at Twizel ;" 

 by P. J, Selby, Esq.— "Case of Andrew Mitchel, aged 10 years, 

 from whose nose Larva- of a coleopterous Insect were discharged." — 



•• Notice of the Myliobate* Aquilaoi Cuvicr, or Eagle Ray of Yarrell;" 

 by Dr. Johnston: a specimen has been taken in Berwick Bay. — 

 •' Contributions to the Flora of Berwickshire;" by Mr. James Hardy. 

 We have been much interested by the narratives of the periodical 

 excursions of the Members of the Club. They present to our view 

 a most delightful means of instructive intercourse and pleasing re- 

 creation, in which we see the clergy and members of the medical 

 profession assisting their neighbours in the promotion of a love for 

 the study of nature, and joining them in the investigation of the di- 

 Btricts in which it is their lot to reside. The example is well worthy 

 of imitation. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



LIXX^EAN SOCIETY. 



Feb. 18. — The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. George T. Fox, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of the Phryno- 

 sovia cor nut urn (Aya?na cor nut a of Flarlan) from Texas. 



Mr. Cameron, A.L.S., presented a specimen of a new fern (Cibo- 

 tium Baromez, J. Sm.) which has lately borne fructification, for the 

 first time in this country, in the garden of the Birmingham Horti- 

 cultural Society. A description of the plant by Mr. Westcott ac- 

 companied the specimen. The fern has been cultivated for some 

 years in the gardens as the Aynus Scythicus or Vegetable Lamb 

 {Poly podium Baromez, Linn.), but whether identical with the plant 

 of Linnaeus is a question still undetermined, as there happens to be 

 no specimen in his herbarium, and the description alone is too meagre 

 to settle the point. Mr. Westcott is however in possession of a spe- 

 cimen of a fern collected in Mexico by Mr. Ross, which closely re- 

 sembles the plant of the gardens, and should they prove to be iden- 

 tical, all doubt will be removed as to the claims of the present plant 

 to be regarded as the Baromez of Linnaeus, which is a native of 

 China. 



The following is Mr. Westcott's description of the species : — 



Rhizoma densely clothed with yellow woolly articulated hairs. 

 Stipes about 7 feet high, roundish, of a dark reddish brown colour, 

 more or less covered with tufts of woolly hairs near the base, naked 

 for about half its height : upper part flexuous from the point where 

 the pinnae commence. Frond bipinnate ; pinnce alternate, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, smooth, under surface glaucous, upper surface 



