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THE DUNDEE NATURALISTS' ASSOCIATION. 



Watt Institution Buildings, Dundee, September 5, 1848. — Mr. 

 Lawson, President, in the chair. 



The chairman produced several specimens showing diseases in 

 wheat and rye, which had been sent him by Mr. E. J. Lance, of 

 Bagshot, Surrey ; and made some remarks upon them. He likewise 

 laid upon the table a specimen of a white-flowered variety of Erica 

 cinerea, gathered in Fifeshire by Miss Jessie Jackson. 



A communication from Mr. Wyllie was read, mentioning that Con- 

 volvulus arvensis is not wholly exterminated from the Constitution- 

 road, Dundee, as stated by Mr. Gardiner in his Forfarshire Flora. A 

 fresh specimen gathered at the station referred to accompanied the 

 communication. The President stated that although this plant is 

 somewhat rare in the vicinity of Dundee, he had pleasure in commu- 

 nicating an unrecorded station, viz., by the side of the Arbroath-road, 

 about four miles east from Dundee, where he found it this season in 

 some abundance and growing luxuriantly. 



A letter from Mr. Anderson to the President was read, communi- 

 cating a new station in Forfarshire for the very interesting Linngea 

 borealis. The station is thus described by Mr. Anderson : — " Hill of 

 Strathcathro : a little to the south of a cart-road that runs along the 

 top of the hill, and bearing due south of the Strathcathro House, 

 growing among roots of birch and Scotch fir, and within what seems to 

 have been a square enclosure at one time, covering a space about 

 twelve yards in diameter." 



A paper by Mr. Kerr was read, on " Discovery of Fossil Fish and 

 Shells, &c, in the clay-pits at Carcary, on the estate of Southesk, 

 March, 1848." 



Mr. Flight presented a specimen of Knautia arvensis in a state of 

 luxuriance, wherein large leaves were produced from the flower-head. 



The President gave an account of botanical rambles in Forfarshire 

 and Kincardineshire. 



Mr. Ogilvie presented specimens of the following Fungi new to the 

 county : — 



Two species of Sphaeronema, " referred by Fries to Sphaeria herba- 

 rum and S. complanata, but a distinct genus." — Berkely. 



Sph<eria conica. On the nettle, Lawhill. 



Cyphella cupula. On dead stems of the nettle, Baldovan. 



Dindryphium curium. On dead stems of the Seuecio Jacobaea, 



