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doubtless lead to a more general recognition of the importance of such studies 
in MNT education. 
THE Cepars or Lesanon.—Dr. Hooker i ER the following interesting 
aiaiga to a recent number of the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle :—“ The Rev. 
M. Tristram, F.L.S., informs me of a most interesting discovery lately made in 
the Lebanon, viz. of several extensive groves of Cedar-trees, by Mr. Jessup, an 
American missionary, a friend of his own, to whom he pointed out the proba- 
ble localities in the interior. Of these there are five, three of great extent, east 
of 'Ain Zabalteh, in the Southern Lebanon. This grove e contained 10,000 
trees, and had been purchased by a barbarous Sheikh, from the more barbarous 
Turkish Geraint, a tee perpen of drying to enirat vita cet the wood : 
1, but several thousand 
trees were destroyed in the attempt. One e the (reos measured 15 feet in 
diameter, and the forest is full of young trees, springing up with great vigour. 
He also found two small groves on the eastern slope of Lebanon, overlooking 
thousand trees, one above El Barük, and another near Ma'asiv, where the trees 
are very large and equal to any others; allare being destroyed for firewood. 
Still another grove has been discovered near Dama, i in the western slope of 
and including it. Ehrenberg had already discovered one to the north of that 
locality, and " theres northwards the chain is unexplored by voyager or na- 
turalist. 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY or EDINBURGH.—July 12th.—Dr. Alexander Dickson, 
V.P., in the chair. The following communications were read :—1. On the ad 
minal arrangements in some species of Potentilla and in Nuttallia cerasiform 
By Dr. Alex. Dickson ee . 273 )- VE On ee Structure and Affinities of Lepi- 
dodendron and Calamites. By Wil , Esq., British Museum (ante, 
p. 337.)—Account x a vost Excursion to Forteviot and Invermay, e 
shire. By Mr. John Sadler. Dr. John Lowe recorded the discovery of 3 
Draba in a naturalized state, near Lynn, Norfolk, by Mr. B. Bray. Profes sor 
Balfour stated that Dr. J. E. Gray notices, in the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ Phyllac- 
lso found 
the Royal Botanic Garden in June, 1853, and Professor Balfour exhibited under 
the microscope spome put up at that time by Mr. Lawson. Mr. M‘Nab ex- 
hibited a number d from spores of the Athyrium Filix-fæmina, 
var. Victoria. Very few of the plants raised prese the peculiar form of the 
pareat variety, most of them assuming more or less t of the ordi- 
nary crested variety. Many of them also MARS the specific form. In 
connection also with this subject he gave a statement of the proportions of 
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