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XXII. Extracts/toot the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society 



of London. 



Jan. 5, Mr. Lambert, V.P.L.S., laid before the Society some 



1802. specimens of the Agrostis linearis of Kocnig, Retzius, 

 and Willdenow (the Burva of the Hindoos), Avhich he 

 received among a large collection of Indian Grasses 

 from Dr. Roxburgh. This is the grass which is figured 

 in the 4th Volume of the Asiatic Researches, and so much 

 celebrated by the late Sir William Jones for the great 

 beauty of its flowers, and for its sweetness and nutritious 

 quality as pasture for cattle ; but Mr. Lambert observes 

 that on his first seeing it he immediately suspected it to 

 !be the Panicum Dactylon of Linnaeus ; and upon com- 

 paring it with fine specimens in the Banksian Herbarium, 

 it proves to be the same. Although this plant grows 

 sparingly in Cornwall, yet it is never found there in the 

 same perfection as in the south of Europe, or in the East 

 Indies ; and Mr. Lambert thence conjectures that it is 

 not originally a native of England. 



Dec. 20, Mr. Templeton, A. L. S. of Orange-Grove near Belfast, 



1803. in a letter to Mr. Dawson Turner, F.L.S., mentions that 



the White-winged Cross-bill, Loxia falcirostra of Latham, 



was shot within two miles of Belfast, in the month of 



January 1802. It was a female, and perfectly resembled 



the figure in Dixon's Voyage to the North-west Coast of 



A merica. 



Feb. 



