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Gagea lutea lias boon found at Hartbnrn, l»y the Rev. W. 

 Featlierstonliau^li . 



Mr. D. Oliver, Jan., has communicated the following interest- 

 ing note: — 



" Towards the close of last year I brought home from Crag 

 Lough, specimens of Coleochcete pulvinata, of A. Braun. These 

 were growing upon stones near its margin. I am not aware 

 that the occurrence of this interesting A/ga has been hitherto 

 recorded in Britain. I took the plant for Chvetophora pisifonnis, 

 and think it not improbable that it may have been from other 

 stations, by previous collectors, referred to the same. Professor 

 A. Henfrey says of it — " It may possibly be Chcetopliora pisiformis, 

 but is certainly Alex. Braun's Coleochcete' ^mlvinata^ originally 

 described in 1842, by C. Miiller, under the name of Chcviophora 

 tuberculosa in the ' Flora.' " I am indebted to Professor Henfrey's 

 kindness for the corrected nomenclatui'e. The specimens exhibit 

 numerous Sporangia. I found in the same neighbourhood 

 Pahaella nivalis (Ag.?) growing in a depression of a rock by the 

 edge of the lake." 



At Whitburn, a Patella.^ new to the County of Durham, has 

 been met with. Mr. Albany Hancock informs me, that " during 

 the summer, a fisherman brought to the Rev. Geo. C. Abbes, a 

 specimen of Acmcea testudinalis, which was obtained on the rocks, 

 in the neighbourhood of Whitburn. Since then, this gentleman 

 has visited the locality, and procured several other individuals. 

 This is the first time that this species has been noticed on the 

 Durham coast; it is stated, however, in Mr. Tate's account 

 of the Fame Islands, that a single specimen has occurred in 

 that district." 



The Evening Meetings of the Club have been regularly hold 

 in one of the rooms of the Literary and Philosophical Society. 



The Eighth took place on Thursday, March 1 2th, at which 

 the following members were present: — Mr. Goddard (in the 

 Chair), Messrs. J. Mawson, Geo. Luckley, D. Oliver, Jun., 

 John Storey, John Thompson, Richard Howse, Edward Mather 

 and Thomas Pigg. 



Mr. Howse read a valuable paper, su^^plemental to his former 



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