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ley if he is quite sure he gathered at Lytham in July last, Pyrola media, which he in- 

 cludes in his list of Lytham plants, (Phytol. 165). I ask this because whilst I gathered 

 Pyrola rotundifolia in that locality in July, 1834, and have since received it from the 

 same place, I have never seen, nor before heard of, Pyrola media growing there. Py- 

 rola rotundifolia is also abundant at Southport, on the opposite shore of the Ribble, in 

 similar situations. — Samuel Simpson ; Lancaster, May 17,1 842. 



] 67. Chrysosplenium alternifolium. I may mention that Chrysosplenium alterni- 

 folium grows along the banks of a narrow rivulet in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 this town, in very great abundance and luxuriance, fonning in some parts large patch- 

 es, and entirely eclipsing its more humble, and there, less abundant sister — Chrysos- 

 plenium oppositifolium. — Id. 



168. Note on the Oxlips from Bardfield. I have, by the kindness of Mr. H. Dou- 

 bleday, been furnished with specimens of the oxlip (Primula elatior) from Bardfield, 

 (Phytol. 204), which I believe to be quite distinct from the plant usually called by 

 that name. The leaf is very diflferently formed, the tube of the corolla much longer, 

 the flowers ahvays drooping, and the general appearance of the plant is altogether dif- 

 ferent. — Joseph Sidebotham ; 26, York St., Manchester, May 20, 1842. 



169. The valuable Botanical Museum of the late Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. is 

 advertized for sale by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby. This collection has been in course of 

 fonnatiou for more than half a century. It comprises about one hundred separate and 

 distinct herbaria ; the largest carpological collection perhaps ever made by a private 

 botanist, the fruits are dry or preserved in spirits and acids ; and a collection of woods 

 and sections of barks, &c. The sale will take place at Mr. Lambert's late residence, 

 26, lower Grosvenor St. ; it will commence on the 27th of June, and will continue for 

 three days. 



170. Erratum. Phytol. 194, under Bonnemaisonia asparagoides and Polysiphonia 

 cristata, for Mr. Carnoiv read Mr. Cwnow. 



Art. LXX. — Proceedings of Societies. 



LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



April 19, 1842.— Edward Forster, Esq., V.P., in the chair. A bequest of £100. 

 from the late Archibald Menzies, Esq., was announced. Joseph Janson, Esq., exhi- 

 bited specimens of Primula scotica, gathered at Wick, near Caithness. 



May 4. — The Bishop of Norwich, President, in the chair. The Rev. C. A. Johns 

 exhibited a living specimen of Jungermannia reptans, in fruit ; as well as dried speci- 

 mens of many other species of the same family. The Duke of Northumberland sent 

 for exhibition the ripe fruit, and a female plant in flower, of Diospyros edulis, which 

 had grown in His Grace's conservatoiy at Sion. Read, the continuation of Dr. Ha- 

 milton's Commentary on the Hortus malabaricus. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



Thursday, May 12, 1842.^ — Professor Christison in the chair. Miss Jane Farquhar- 

 son was elected a life member of the Society. Donations to the library and museum 



