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THE NATURALIST, 



US with specimens of a plant identified by Babington with E. cygnorum of 

 Nees von Esenbeck, collected on ' waste ground near Guiseley,' during the 

 present summer, [1854.] It is a native of West Australia, and he suggests 

 that the seeds have been introduced among wool." Supplement to the 

 Flora of Yorkshire, 179. 



(To he Continued.) 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



XXIX. session — IV. meeting. 



The society met on Thursday, 9tli 

 February, at 5, St, Andrew Square — 

 Professor Balfour, V.P., in the chair. 



Before commencing the public 

 business. Professor Balfour alluded 

 to the loss which the society had 

 sustained in the death of Dr. Hugh 

 Falconer, which melancholy event 

 took place in London, on the 31st 

 of January last. 



The folloAving communications were 

 read : — 

 I. Contributions to the Flora of 



Otago, :N'ew Zealand. By W. 



Lauder Lindsay, M.D., F.E.S.E., 



F.L.S. 

 IL Eemarks on some Seedling Coni- 



fer£e raised from seeds ripened in 



Britain by Mr. M':N'ab. 



Professor Balfour called attention 

 to the recent observations of Mold 

 and others, relative to the self-fertili- 

 sation of the flowers of Oxalis, Viola, 

 Specularia, lmp>atiens, Fumarla, &c. 



Dr. J. B. Wood transmitted a 

 notice to the effect that Professor 

 Schimj)er was about to publish some 

 fasciculi of mosses, contaming 200 

 species, not met with in the British 

 Flora, or only very rarely, and such 

 as, if fomid, have only been met with 

 hitherto in a barren state. The price 

 of each collection is 100 francs. 



XXIX. session. V. MEETING. 



The Society met on Thm^sday, 9th 

 March, at 5, St. AndrcAV Square — Dr. 

 Alexander Dickson, President, in the 

 chair. 



Dr. Balfour stated that he had 

 received a letter from Dr. Murchison, 

 in which he says that the scientific 

 men in London have set agoing a 

 subscription for a memorial to the 

 late Dr. Hugh Falconer, and that it 

 is proposed to have a bust, and a 

 fellowship in natural science in the 

 LTniversity of Edinbiu'gh. Dr. Bal- 

 four also alluded to a new work now 

 in 2:)rocess of publication, entitled 

 " Contributions tow^ards a Cybele 

 Ilibernica ; being Outlines of the 

 Geographical Distribution of Plants 

 in Ireland"— by D. Moore, Ph. D., 



