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CONTENTS. 



I. OOME Information respecting the Lignum Hhodium of 

 PococJic's Travels, in a Letter to Alexander MacLeay, 

 Esq. F.R.S.Sec.L.S. By Sir James Edward Smith, 

 M.D.F.R.S.Fr.L.S.,^c. .... p. i 



II. Of the Formation of the Vegetable Epidermis. By the 

 Rev. Patrick Keith, F.L.S. - - - . p. (j 



III. On the Classification of the Natural Tribe of Insects 

 NoTONECTiDES, zc'ifh Descriptions of the British Species. 



By V,'i]\\amE]ford Leach, M.D.F.R.S. and L.S. p. 10 



f IV. Some Remarks on the Natural History of the Black 

 Stork, for the first time captured in Great Britain. By 

 George Montagu, Esq. F.L.S. - - - p. jf) 



V. Some Account of the Tantalus Ephouskyca,a rare American 

 Bird. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. F.M.L.S. p. 24 



VI. Observations on the Orchis militaris of Linnceus. By Mr. 



J. E. Bicheno, F.L.S. ----- p. 28 



Yll. Glypiiis a?id Ciiiodecton, two new Genera of the 

 Family of Lichenes, with Descriptions and Figures of the 

 Species hitherto discovered. By Erik Acharius, M.D. 

 F.M.L.S. p. 35 



VIII. On the Forcer of Sarracenia adunca to entrap Insects. 

 In a Letter to Sir J. E. Smith, Pres. Linn. Soc, from 

 James Machvide, M.D. of South Carolina p. 48 



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