188 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Ft. In. 
Length 13 9 
Mean breadth . . 51 
Mean depth 34 
Cubic contents 169 2 
To contrast with the above the following are the measurements. of the largest 
log cut in the Honduras up to the year 1830: — 
F J Ft. In. 
Length 17 
Breadth 57 
Depth 64 
Cubic contents 430 8 
4. Notice of some rare British Mosses recently collected near Edinburgh. By 
Mr. John Sadler. The author gave an account of a muscological excursion 
which he had recently made in company with Dr. White, Mr. Charles Howie, 
and Mr. J. Brown, to the Queen's Park, Duddingston, and Craiglockhart, and 
recorded the rarer species met with. They included Tor tula aloides, T. inter- 
media (new to the Edinburgh flora), Qrimmia subsquarrosa (new to the Edin- 
burgh flora), G. orbicularis var. oblonga, G. leucophea, Schistidium confertum, 
and Orthotrichum anomalum (verum), in the Queen's Park ; Orthotrichum 
diaphanum, Pottia cavifolia, P. gracilis, and Tortula rigida, on walls at 
Duddingston ; and Tortula Mullerii, T. intermedia, T. papillosa, T. rigida, 
T.revoluta, Ilypnum piliferum var., Pottia cavifolia, and Dicranum scoparium 
var. cui'catum, at Craiglockhart. The paper was illustrated by specimens of 
the different species and varieties referred to. 5. Notes of an Excursion to the 
Forest of Fontainebleau. By Mr. George W. R. Hay. In the beginning of 
last month (April, 1867) the author accompanied a party of Parisian botanists 
in a botanical excursion in the Forest of Fontainebleau. The party left Paris 
in the evening, and proceeded to a large cave in the centre of the forest, where 
they remained for the night. Next day they botanized the surrounding neigh- 
bourhood and returned to Paris. The author was fortunate in collecting 
Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense in a a deep cleft. This Fern had not been pre- 
viously met with in that part of France, it being confined in that country to 
the extreme north-west, as at Brest and near Cherbourg. The party also col- 
lected Asplenium lanceolatum, which is only found in one place within forty 
leagues of Paris. The author concluded by giving a list of the plants collected 
during the excursion. 6. Miscellaneous Communications. (1) Mr. A. Craig 
Christie exhibited a model of an apparatus for pressing plants, which was so 
constructed as to form a sort of box for holding drying-paper during travelling, 
and capable of being afterwards converted into a series of boards for pressing 
plants. (2) Mr. M'Nab laid before the meeting a tuft of the Californian Bunch 
Grass, raised from seed sent home during 1865, by Mr. Robert Brown, the col- 
lector to the British Columbia Botanical Association. This grass was planted 
out during the spring of 1866 ; it now averages three feet nine inches in height, 
surpassing from the beginning of the season all other grasses in cultivation. 
While this grass is tender, it will prove a great acquisition for spring feeding. 
It is perfectly hardy, and suitable for any climate. Owing to the tendency to 
form large compact hassocks, it should be grown alone. It seeds freely, and I* 
easily increased by division of the roots. 
