I860.] BELGIAN PLANTS. 11 



to do the most ample justice to the merits of the papers sent in, 

 by availing itself of the assistance of the most eminent authorities 

 in every department of Natural History, both at home and 

 abroad, who are called upon to examine and decide. The Medal 

 now awarded contains, on one side, a profile of its founder, and 

 on the obverse side the inscription, "Adjudged for eminence in 

 Natural History to Wm. Lauder Lindsay, M.D., by the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh." Lord Neaves, one of the vice-presidents 

 of the Society, in the course of his long and able inaugural ad- 

 dress, remarked, in regard to the Neill Prize : " The Neill medal 

 and prize, founded by our late member. Dr. Patrick Neill, for the 

 encouragement of the Natural History studies, in which he took 

 a life-long interest, has been awarded* by the Council to Dr. Lau- 

 der Lindsay, a Scotchman, but not a Fellow of this Society, for 

 a paper on the Lichens, showing immense labour and research. 

 This paper has been submitted to competent Botanists, for their 

 opinion, and the Council have pleasure in stating that it has re- 

 ceived their high approbation. It will, therefore, not merely be 

 rewarded by the Neill medal and prize, but it is in the course of 

 being printed at length in the ' Transactions,^ and of being illus- 

 trated by numerous plates, beautifully executed by the well- 

 known artist, Mr. Tuffen West, of London. The delay which 

 Fellows of the Society have experienced in receiving their Fasci- 

 culus of Transactions, arises from the wish of the Council to in- 

 clude in it this important contribution, which will very soon be 

 completed." 



OBSEEVATIONS ON THE FOEMS OF SOME BELGICO- 

 BEITISH PLANTS. 



From M. Crepin's ' Plant es rares ou critiques de la Belgique.' 



Barbarea intermedia and B. prjecox. 



" J'insisterai toutefois sur la difference de saveur qui existe 

 entre le B. intermedia et le B. pracox : le premier est d'une 

 abominable amertume, tandis que le second n^a point de gout 

 desagreable, et de plus est mange en salade. Si les phytographes 

 avaient plus frequemment insiste sur cette difference de saveur, 

 nul doute que la confusion du B. intermedia avec le B. prcBcox 

 n'eut ete ni si prolongee ni si generale." 



