8 Transactions. 



Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. IV., p. 672 ; 0. vulgaris (Gaudin), Fl. 

 Helv., Vol. IV., p. 176; 0. caryoplyllaceoe. (Schultz), Beitr. 8; 

 0. variegata (Wallroth), Descrip. Orobanche, Figured in "Reichen- 

 bach's Plantae Critic," and in his " Icones Flora Germanics 

 et Helvetia;," Vol. XX., t. 700, p. 92 (1862). Portugal, Spain, 

 France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bavaria, Montenegro, Bosnia, 

 Bannat, Macedonia. 



I hope Mr Macvicar will be enabled to find it next year, and 

 to send me fresh specimens to figure in the Supplement to 

 English Botany now in course of publication. 



Dried specimens of Orobanche are very difficult to determine, 

 and should any of the Members of the Club meet with any of the 

 genus, I should be much obliged if they would transmit the 

 specimens to me in the living state. If desired, I will gladly 

 return them after examination, or I will send specimens of our 

 Southern Species, as 0. caryopyUacea, jneridis, amethystea, elatior, 

 cierulea, &c., in exchange. 



2. Certain points in connection with Cup and Ring Marks. 

 By Mr Frederick R. Coles. 



In the first rush of enthusiastic research into any subject of 

 Antiquarian interest — more especially if we can mystify our- 

 selves and others by a free use of the word Pre-Historic — we are 

 all apt to be led into the natural condition of accepting certain 

 elements as positive proofs of the problem we are trying to solve 

 without giving the needful time, thought, and care which the 

 magnitude of the problem demands. Such hastiness is developed 

 perhaps more rapidly and ripens into rash theories more 

 readily when Cup and Ring Marks form the problem than in any 

 other matter. I freely admit having myself been bitten by the 

 Cup and Ring Mark mania to a very sad and severe extent. 

 Time, however, which cures all, has worked a little of the fever 

 out of my Antiquarian ducts ; and observations, made at cooler 

 hours, have helped to show that many so-called Pre-Historic 

 sculpturings once reputed to be the work of Archaic Man are 

 really nothing but the curious result of many ages of Nature's 

 handiwoi'k. As the subject is really of more importance than 

 might appear at the first glance, I shall, without further preface, 



