598 FOURTH REPORT — 1834. 



Cocculus as characterized by De CandoUe, and their exact 

 coincidence with those described by Roxburgh under his 

 Menispermum heteroclitum {Fl. Ind. iii. p. 817.), and figured by 

 him among his drawings in the East India Company's museum 

 («. 130.) under the name of Mew. monadelphum, and of which 

 Colebrooke has constituted his genus Anamirta. Mr. Colebrooke 

 has named this species An. paniculata, but Mr. Arnott con- 

 siders it better to resume the Linnaean appellation, and call it 

 An. Cocculus. 



Mr. Arnott also remarked, in the course of the paper, that 

 although the order Menispermacece has been described by De 

 CandoUe, Ach. Richard, Lindley, Hooker, and by himself, as 

 well as by most other writers on the subject, as having either 

 (and usually) no albumen, or in small quantity, it is in reality 

 almost always present, and of considerable thickness ; and, 

 indeed, in an examination of many species of the order, he has 

 only yet discovered one in which it does not exist. 



On Excretions from the Roots of Vegetables. By C. Daubeny, 

 M.D., Professor of Botany, Oxford. 



Dr. Daubeny described the experiments which he is now 

 carrying on, in compliance with the recommendation of the Bo- 

 tanical Committee of last year, {see Report of the Third 

 Meeting, p. 484.) with the view of ascertaining in what manner 

 and to what extent particular plants deteriorate the soils on 

 which they grow. The results of the experiments will be laid 

 before a future meeting of the Association. 



On the Distribution of the Phcenogamous Plants of the Faroe 

 Islands. By W. C. Tkevelyan, F.R.S.E. %c. 



The author states that the number of species is 271, of 

 which 84 are monocotyledonous, and 187 dicotyledonous. (See 

 the Edinburgh Journal of Science.) 



On the Projjagation of certain Scottish Zoophytes. By John 

 Graham Dalyell. 



The author commenced his illustrations of this subject by 

 a few preliminary observations on the Actinice and the Hydra;, 

 animals whose structure exhibits many analogies, though 

 standing far apart in the artificial Systema Natura'. 



