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will do, from every leaf and stone and flower, on every hill and in 

 every dale ; — pour forth, I say, lessons of wisdom, precious as the 

 teaching of the sage ; all ministering to our knowledge and 

 advancement, carrying us from earth to heaven, and leading ua 

 upwards to the Cause of all we see and know, and can imagine ; 

 all that is, or was, or shall be ; to the beneficent Creator, the 

 Father, the great "I AM," 



To whom we bend the knee, to whom our thoughts 

 Continual climb. 

 Botanical Notices. By Mr. John Storey. — The recent ad- 

 ditions, to our Flora, of new plants, or of new habitats of rare 

 species, though few, are not unimportant. At the Second Field 

 Meeting of the Club, held in June last, I observed, on the banks 

 of the Tyne, near Featherstone Castle, Arenaria verna and Ar- 

 meria maritima. 



Thlaspi alpestre, in flower and fruit, was growing plentifully 

 in the same locality. In July, in company with Mr. Burnet, the 

 elegant Vicia sylvatica, in full flower, and Cnicus heterophylluSy 

 were met with, near Hareshaw-Lynn. On the same occasion, the 

 following species were noticed : — Crepis succiscefolia, on the es- 

 tate of the Duke of Northumberland, not far from the borders of 

 Roxburghshire ; luxuriant examples of the beautiful Galeopsis 

 versicolor, sl little to the westward of Kielder Castle; on the 

 slopes of the Dead-water Fell, Melamp)yrimi pratense, mon- 

 tanum, Johnst. ; and, near the highest point of the Dead-water 

 Fell, JRuhus Chamcemorus. In the month of August, Asp- 

 lenium germanicum, Weiss., was found, on basaltic rocks, in the 

 north of Northumberland, by Mr. G. R. Tate, who has since 

 obligingly favoured me with a frond of this very rare fern. 



Mr. D. Oliver, jun., has noticed Carex muricata, at Newburn, 

 and Scirpus acicularis, by the Tyne, near Wylam. 



The habitats of many of the commoner species, in both counties 

 have also been recorded, for the purpose of illustrating the Geo- 

 graphical distribution of Plants. 



Entomological Notices. By Mr. T. J. Bold. — A few interest- 

 ing additions have been made to our local Coleoptera, by the 

 occurrence of some of the rarer forms of our native Hydrade- 



