376 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
elephantopus. This led to a discussion on the question of how 
far the theory of the use and disuse of parts will account, on the 
one hand, for the great development of the leg bones, and, on the 
other, for the dwarfed or rudimentary state of the wings of the 
moas. 
Rev. G. A. Frank Knight, M.A., exhibited the jaws of a Skate 
caught off Aberdeen by trawlers; and a young Globe-tish, Z'eérodon 
oblongus, from the Red Sea. The special peculiarities of the 
latter fish are its highly-distensible stomach and its parrot-like 
beak, formed of bones which have become anchylosed. 
27TH Avueust, 1895. 
Professor Thomas King, President, in the chair. 
Reports on the excursions to Rowardennan on 10th inst., and 
to Millport on 24th idem, were submitted. (See page 361.) 
The President read some notes descriptive of a short holiday 
spent in Morecambe and its vicinity, and stated, as the result of 
his observations on the flora of that district, that he had been 
more struck with its resemblance to than with its difference from 
the flora of the south-west of Scotland. He also exhibited 
Ascophyllum Mackaii (Turn.), var. Robertsoni, Batt.,* a rare sea- 
weed, from Lochranza; and a fruiting branch of Rosa spinosissima, 
Linn., and pointed out that in the latter plant the peduncle became 
fleshy and formed part of the fruit, a feature not normal in other 
roses, 
Mr. William Stewart and the President jointly exhibited 
numerous specimens of fungi from Tullichewan, permission to visit 
which estate had been kindly granted by the proprietor, Mr. James 
Campbell. Amongst those worthy of note as being rather uncom- 
mon in Clydesdale were—Lactarius glyciosmus, Fr.; L. deliciosus, 
Fr.; LZ. camphoratus, Fr.; Entoloma rhodopolius, Fr.; Tricholoma 
saponaceus, Fr.; 7’. viryatus, Scop.; Marasmius porreus, Fr.; 
Leotia lubrica, P.; Nyctalis parasitica, Fr.; Boletus olivaceus, 
Scheeff. 
Mr. A. Sweet exhibited /runella vulgaris, Linn., var, Webbiana; 
and Rubus nutkanus, an ornamental raspberry with large flowers, 
* Trans., Vol. III., N.S., pp. 270, 271. 
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