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DUNDEE NATURALISTS' ASSOCIATION. 



May 1, 1849.— The President in the chair. 



A paper was read by Mr. J. Wyllie, being a visit to Glenearse, 

 Perthshire. 



A note on the British species and varieties of Symphytum was read 

 from Mr. Geo. Lawson, who called attention to these plants, suspecting 

 that their nomenclature is somewhat confused, and that they are not 

 very clearly known, with the view of ascertaining more accurately 

 their distribution and relative frequency in Forfarshire. 



Mr. Ogilvie exhibited some very fine specimens of Bryum carneum, 

 from the Den of Mains, being a new locality for the plant. 



A donation to the library was announced from Mr. Lawson ; also 

 'The Nomenclature of British Plants' from Mr. lbbotson. — W. M. O. 



Inquiry respecting the Class and Order to which certain Genera of 

 Plants belong. By George M. Bartlett, Esq. 



You would confer a great favour on the readers of the ' Phy tologist' 

 at our Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, if you would be 

 kind enough, in your next number, to inform us to what class, order, 

 &c. the genera of plants mentioned in the ' Geography of Plants,' by 

 Meyen, &c, belong — viz., Phippsia, Parry a, Eutrema, Platypetalum, 

 Colpodium, Duponia, and Pleuropogon ; the above work not even 

 mentioning whether they are Monocotyledonous or Dicotyledonous, — 

 a strange omission, considering the importance and peculiar interest 

 attached to their history, as a part of the Arctic Flora, as new 

 genera, &c. G. M. Bartlett. 



Plymouth, May 10, 1849. 



[Colpodium of Trinius, Dupontia (not Duponia) of Robert Brown, 

 Phippsia of Robert Brown, and Pleuropogon of Robert Brown, belong 

 to the natural order Gramineae and class Endogens. Eutrema, Par- 

 rya, and Platypetalum, all of Robert Brown, belong to the natural 

 order Brassicacese, and to the hypogynous division of the class 

 Exogens. — Edward Newman.] 



