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XXVIII. Extracts from the Minute Book of the L'mnean Society. 



July 2, ' I ^HE President communicated an account of Mcerops 

 1794. X Jpiafer, the Bee-eater, having been fhot (for the 

 firft time in Great Britain) near Mattilhall in the county 

 of Norfolk, by the Rev. Mr. George Smith. The identical 

 fpecimen was exhibited, by permiffion of Mr. Thomas Tal- 

 bot of Wymondham. A flight of about twenty was feen 

 in June, and the fame flight probably (much diminifhed in 

 numbers) was obferved pafling over the fame fpot in Oc- 

 tober following. 



Dec. 1. A fpecimen of 'Tamarix galHca, gathered in a wild ftate on 

 St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, by W. G. Maton, Efq, 

 F.L.S. was prefented to the Society. 



June 2, Specimens of feveral rare native plants of Scotland, from 



1795. Profeiror James Beattie, junior, of the Marefchal College, 

 Aberdeen, were prefented by the Prefident, and among' 



''them Linnaa borealis, difcovered by that gentleman, for the 

 firft time in Britain, in an old fir wood at Mearns near 

 Aberdeen. 



May 3, Mr. Fairbairn prefented a living fpecimen of a Rufcusy 



1796. which, though long cultivated in Chelfea garden, has been 

 hitherto overlooked by botanifts as a variety of the acu- 

 leatus. Being referred to the Prefident for examination, it 

 was xeturned with the following name and charadler : 



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Ruscus 



