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a journey in Cashmeer, commenced under Lord Auckland's auspices, 

 and yields a valuable product, he regards the name as peculiarly 

 appropriate. The Aucklandin is a gregarious plant, growing in great 

 abundance on the moist open slopes of the mountains which sur- 

 round the valley of Cashmeer, at an elevation of from 8000 to 9000 

 feet above the level of the sea, but like some other plants of that re- 

 gion, it is extremely local, being confined to the immediate vicinity 

 of the valley. The genus is nearly related to Saussurea, and is stated 

 to be chiefly distinguished by the rays of its feathery pappus being 

 disposed in two rows, and cohering by twos or threes at the base. 

 The following is the author's character of the genus: 



AUCKLANDIA. 



Capitulum homogamum. Antherarum caudee lanato-plumosEe. Pappi 

 setacei lamellce biseriales, plumosas, basi ternatiiu quaternatimve co- 

 haerentes, in annulum deciduum concretse. Achenium glabrum, 



Herba orgyaUs, radice perenni ramosd crassd, caule erecto simplici 

 sulcata glabro foUoso, foliis suhlyratis margine setaceo-dentatis supra 

 glahris atrovirentibus suhtus glaucescentibus venis pubertdis, cap'ituUs 

 numeros'is terminalibus aggregatis, jloribus atropurpureis. 



Sp. A. Costus. 



December I. 

 Mr. Forster, V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. Gould, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of a nondescript Lizard 

 from New Holland, remarkable for the extreme aculeation of its 

 scales. 



Mr. William Cumming presented specimens of Lagurus ovatus, 

 Briza maxima, and Mentha crispa, which he stated that he had 

 gathered in the vicinity of Saffron Walden, Essex, 



Read, " On a White Incrustation on Stones, from the bed of the 

 river Annan." By Edwin Lanlvester, M.D., F.L.S, 



During a short stay which the author made last summer on the 

 banks of the Annan, in Dumfries-shire, his attention was arrested by 

 the appearance of the stones on the banks of the river. Wherever 

 a mass of gravel was exposed to the air, the surface of the stones 

 appeared covered with a white incrustation, as if they had been 

 white-Avashed. This appearance was more or less general on all 



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