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look like large beads on a thread ; while in the other the roots might 

 have passed for slender forms of liachenalii, except for a single half- 

 grown tuber on one of them. Internally the roots of pimpinelloides 

 are tough and fibrous at maturity, requiring an effort to break them ; 

 while those of Lachenalii are very brittle. The Society has now a 

 very full series of these three species. 



Read, " Remarks on the roots of (Enanthe Lachenalii, from ditches 

 at Yarmouth, Norfolk, collected in January, 1846," by Mr. George 

 Fitt. Specimens were presented. — G. E. D. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



Tliursday, March 12, 1845. — Dr. Balfour, President, in the chair. 



Donations to the library and museum were announced, viz., from 

 W. Brown, Esq., R.N., ' Harvey's Genera of south African Plants ;' 

 Dr. Cullen, a list of Plants found in the neighbourhood of Sidmouth ; 

 Mr. H. Ibbotson, a catalogue of Plants found in the north Riding of 

 York ; and from Mr. W. Gillespie, plants collected on the shores of 

 Hudson's Bay, in latitude 57° N. The thanks of the Society were 

 voted to the respective donors. 



The following communications were read : — 



1 . — "On the altitudinal range of the Mosses in A.berdeenshire." 

 By George Dickie, M.D., Lecturer on Botany in the University and 

 King's College of Aberdeen. 



2. — " Remarks on the state of the Sibthoi*pian Herbarium at Ox- 

 ford, suggested by the announcement of a new edition of the ' Flora 

 Grajca.'" By Dr. R. C. Alexander. 



3. — "Botanical Excursion in Lower Styria in 1842." By the 

 same. 



Dr. Alexander stated that he had been persuaded by his friend. Dr. 

 Maly, of Gratz, to take a tour through Lower Styria in 1842. "A 

 country that had been little explored by botanists, though seeming to 

 claim their especial notice. Situated in a degree of latitude almost 

 the same as that of the middle of France, at the base of the great cen- 

 tral alpine group of Europe — three branches of which terminate in 

 this province ; — and on the eastern side exposed to the influence of 

 the great plain of Hungary, where the winter is as cold as in the Steppes 

 of Russia, and the summer as hot as the warmest parts of Italy or 

 vSpain, it might be expected to evince in its vegetation the effects of a 

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