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South Esk, about a quarter of a mile above the service bridge at Bre- 

 chin Castle, on the top of a sunk fence, abundantly, and where it has 

 been known to grow for the last 10 years. Probably introduced." 



A note was also read from Mr. Geo. Lawson on the occurrence of 

 Specularia hybrida in Fifeshire. 



Mr. James Wyllie read a paper on the common barn-door hen as- 

 suming the plumage of the male. 



A specimen, with fertile flower, of the Udora canadensis was ex- 

 hibited from Mr. Geo. Lawson, who had received it from Miss Kirby, 

 of Leicester. 



A donation to the Library was announced from Mr. Geo. Lawson. 



Plants had been received from Mr. Wm. Anderson, Mr. James 

 Wyllie, D. E. Smith, Esq., and Geo. Lawson, Esq. 



Charles Roger, Esq., of Dundee, and D. E. Smith, Esq., of Edin- 

 burgh, were elected members. — TV. M. O. 



Naturalization of Petasites alhus near Huddersfield. 

 By Peter Inchbald, Esq. 



A large patch of this early-flowering plant occurs in an oak wood 

 north of the hall. It is growing in a damp stony hollow, and covers 

 many yards with its strong penetrating roots, which creep above 

 ground among the stones in every direction. Reichenbach states, in 

 his ' Flora Germanica,' that this species occurs on the continent in 

 woody mountainous tracts, and gives April and May as its time of 

 flowering. With us it flowers in February and March, and is nearly 

 over by the middle of April. 



Peter Inchbald. 



Storthes Hall, near Huddersfield, 

 December, 1848. 



Record of the rarer Plants occurring in the Neighbourhood of Ad- 

 uick,four miles north of Doncaster. By Peter Inchbald, Esq. 



Doncaster is pleasantly situated in the south of Yorkshire, not 

 many miles from the borders of Nottinghamshire. It is in the verv 

 midst of the magnesian limestone, which thence trends northwards in 

 a direct line to the banks of the Tees. The Flora of Adwick, a vil- 



