REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



301 



F.L.S., and A. G. More, F.L.S. 

 The following communications were 

 read : — 



I. Notice of rare plants collected in 

 the south-west of England. By 

 F. Xaylor, Esq. 



II. l!s'otice of Esparto. By the Eight 

 Hon. the Lord Provost. 



III. Note on the discovery of Neo- 

 tinea intacta (Reich.) in Ireland ; 

 by A. G. More, F.L.S. Communi- 

 cated by Dr. Balfoiu\ 



The plant was discovered by Miss 

 More, in April 1864, at Castle Taylor, 

 about six miles inland from the Bay 

 of Gal way. In the same field with the 

 plant occiUTed a rare species of Hawk- 

 moth, Anthrocera m'lnos. It is re- 

 markable that in Killarney Arbutus 

 Unedo is associated Avith two local 

 species of insects, Notodorda hlcolora 

 and Hydrelia Banksicma. A MoUusk 

 Geomalacus maculosus is also peculiar 

 to the Killarney district. A specimen 

 oiNeotinea infacta was exhibited, and 

 presented to the herbaiium. 



Dr. White stated that Anthrocera 

 minos had also been met with in 

 Argyllshire and Kincardineshire. 



IV. Summary of some of the more 

 interesting Botanical Papers pub- 

 lished in France since July 1864. 

 By G. M. Lowe, Esq. 



In this paper the author alluded 

 to the remarks of Boussingault on 

 vegetation in darkness ; to the che- 

 mical researches on vegetation by M. 

 Corinwender ; to M. Chatin's obser- 



vations on BalanoplwracAe ; M. Jodin 

 on Chl()r(»i»hyll and its connection 

 with light ; M. Godron on the mor- 

 phology of Crudfena and oiFumaria- 

 ceie ; M. Bazin on the spores of 

 Achorton Sclueidcuiu ; M. Halst on 

 the chemistry of Cotijlcdou urnhUinus', 

 and M. Gaston de Sa2)orta on j>lant8 

 with deciduous leaves in the gypsum 

 of Aix. 



Letters were read from ]Mi\ John 

 Sim, Perth, as to the mode of growth 

 in the rhizome of Circwa al^nna, and 

 on the transmutation of species. 



Dr. Alexander Dickson exhibited 

 specimens of Peziza coccinea from 

 Arniston Woods, and a cone of Pbms 

 coulter I with the scales numbered so 

 as to exhibit the 13-3 4th arrange- 

 ment. 



Med necked Grebe. — I have just 

 added to my collection a female Bed 

 necked Grebe, (Podlccjps rabrkoUis) 

 which was shot on tlie river Calder, 

 near Wakefield, on the 20th of Feb- 

 ruary. A Goosander was captured 

 also on the Calder, at Stanley, near 

 Wakefield, on the 10th of Februar}% 

 and brought to me for preservation. 

 Geo. Lumb, Wakefield. 

 Coast round Blackpool ix IMarch. 



March 24th, 1864.— Blackpool, as 

 the name would lead us to infer, is 

 built on the verge of a vast moorland 

 tract, that extends south towards 

 L)i;ham. The peat, which is chiefly 



