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XXV. 'Extracts /rom the Minute Book of the Llnnean Society. 



^prilj. An account was laid before the Society, from D;. Mac- 

 1801. culloch, F. L. S. of an artifice ufcd by the Cancer Fbalangium 

 to ciifnare its prey. This contrivance confifts in the infect 

 dreflTing itfelf up, as it were, in fragments of a Fiicus (the 

 narrow-leaved variety of Hudfon's ciliatus), which it feems 

 to cut off, and to attach to the long hairs of its body and 

 legs by means of a glutinous fubftaiice. It thus imitates a 

 perfect plant of that Fucus fo accurately as to have deceived 

 Dr. MaccuUcch. See Tab. XXXI. 



Oa.G. L. W. Dillwyn, Efq. F. L.S. fent information of his 

 /having difcovered the Syfnnbrium murale of Linnaius (a plant 

 not hitherto noticed as of Britifli growth) growing wild 

 abundantly on the pier at Ramfgate and other places there- 

 abouts. He believes it to be rather common throughout the 

 ifle of Thanet. 



Bee. 1. A letter from Dr. Walter Wade, of Dublin, A.L-S. to 

 the Prefident, mentions his having found the Eriocaulon fep- 

 tangulare, Engl. Bot. v. 11. t. 733, in Ireland. It has never 

 before been feen but in the Ifle of Skye. Dr. Wade obferved 

 it Lift September, decorating the edges of all the lakes, great 

 and fmal!, in the romantic mountainous diftrict of Cunna- 

 mara, in the county of Galway. He remarked the number 

 of angles in the ftem to vary from 6 to 10, though u oft 



frequently 



