HISTORY of th SOCIETY. ar 
prickles, fhoot up from each root, and bear no fructification 
the firft year. In their fecond year, they begin to produce 
flowers about the fame time withthe rafp-berry, in the firft week 
of June, three or four weeks before the bramble ; but the fruit 
does not come to maturity till the intermediate time between 
ripening of the rafp-berry and bramble-berry, that is, about 
the beginning of September. The fruit, which is of the colour 
of the red mulberry, has a peculiar tafte, fomewhat different 
from both. After bearing fruit, the ftalk perifhes in the fecond 
year, like that of the rafp ; but the root continues to produce 
new fhoots yearly, like that plant. / Its characters may be ex- 
preffed, in the Linnzan ftyle, as follows: 
“ Rubus (Neffenfis) foliis quinato-digitatis, ternatis, fepteni/que 
nudis, caule fubinermi, petiolis canaliculatis; flolonibus erectis bi- 
ennalibus. 
“© As it is fo nearly akin both to the rafp and the bramble, 
it may perhaps be only a variety of one or tother. But as. 
it is to be met with in different places on the banks and among 
the woods of Lochnefs, where it could not come from the 
fame root, it muft have been propagated by the feed, and 
would therefore feem to be a different fpecies from either, and 
from any other Rubus that I know of. Iam,” We. 
Ar this meeting, was alfo read the firft part of a paper on 
EleGtricity, by Mr Joun Les tie. 
Lit. Cl. A part of Dr Ocitvy’s paper on the Theology of 
PLATO was read in continuation. ‘The Society obferved with 
regret, that the difcuffions of a religious nature contained in this 
learned communication, rendered an admiffion of it among 
their papers inconfiftent with the nature of their plan; and 
therefore it was not put into the hands of the Committee for- 
publication. 
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1792>- 
Jan. 2. 
Mr Leflic on 
electricity. 
Jan. 16. 
Dr Ogilvy on 
the theo:ogy of 
Platos 
