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taxifolius and adiantoides. Most of these mosses were in fruit. 

 Jungermannia furcata, bidentata, and curvifolia in fruit, with a 

 number of commoner species. Stereocaulon nanum : Mr. Ogilvie re- 

 marked, that this was the third time that this rare lichen had been 

 found in Britain, and all at a short distance from Dundee ; it having 

 been first discovered at West Water, Fifeshire, by Mr. Wm. Gardiner, 

 and also in the Den of Airlie, Forfarshire (see 'Flora of Forfarshire'). 

 Specimens of the various plants illustrative of the paper were ex- 

 hibited. 



Two papers were read from Mr. Geo. Lavvson, F.B.S., Edinburgh, 

 intituled respectively 'Botanical Rambles around Edinburgh,' and 

 ' Scrambles on Samson's Ribs and Salisbury Crags.' The object of 

 these papers was to make the members of the Association aware of 

 the progress of Flora in the Edinburgh district. 



Mr. Ogilvie also read a short paper on the Oxalis crenata, as to the 

 desirableness of its introduction and cultivation in Britain as an 

 article of human food. 



Mr. Charles C. Maxwell, Dundee, was elected a fellow. — W. M. O. 



Remarks on the genus Airiplex. 

 By Joseph Woods, Esq., F.L.S., &c, &c* 



Perhaps it is not wise for a botanist to publish speculations which 

 do not arrive at any satisfactory results ; yet the sum of our know- 

 ledge is made up of so many minute particles, that a person who 

 adds a very little to what had previously been observed may afford 

 considerable help to future investigators. It is with this view that 

 I venture to offer to the Linnean Society a few remarks upon the ge- 

 nus A triplex, which, as far as the English species are concerned, had 

 slept in undisturbed repose from the time of Sir J. E. Smith till Ba- 

 bington, in his Manual, awoke it to new life and doubt by thei nser- 

 tion of several additional species. 



The first of these is A. nitens, a common plant in the east of 

 Germany, and reaching as far north as Hamburg. It belongs to a 

 division having a mixture of hemaphrodite flowers, producing hori- 

 zontal seeds ; while the seeds of the female flowers, like those of the 

 other divisions, are vertical. The division I believe is sound, but 



* Read before the Linnean Society, April 17, 1840. 



