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live, G. nodosum. The specimen is merely the top part of a stem, 

 with the immature fruit after the fall of the petals; and though I can- 

 not speak confidently with only this " fragmentary specimen " before 

 me, 1 think it G. nodosum. But the name on Mr. Gibson's label is 

 " G. pyrenaicum," so that there is either a mistake respecting the spe- 

 cies, on the part of Mr. Gibson, or, it may be, an accidental substitu- 

 tion of a garden specimen of G. nodosum in place of a wild specimen 

 of G. pyrenaicum. The question still remains, whether the specimen 

 in my herbarium (that of G. nodosum, probably, but certainly not of 

 G. pyrenaicum) was really gathered wild near Halifax ? On receiving 

 the specimen I wrote to Mr. Bowman for further information, but that 

 gentleman was not able to say more than the label stated. — Id. 



297. Note on " Dail llosy y Tdn.^^ In a late number of your Jour- 

 nal (Phytol. 521) enquiry was made as to the precise species of fern 

 used by the Welsh peasantry, as a remedy for burns, under the above 

 name, as alluded to in the memoir appended to the prize elegy (or 

 " Marwnad,") to the memory of the late Lady Greenly. The mention 

 of this enquiry to my friend " Tegid," the talented author of the poem, 

 has procured for me, at his instance, from Lady Hall of Llano ver, 

 (another great promoter of Welsh literature), accredited specimens of 

 the plant, which, as you will see from the enclosed frond, gathered 

 over " Ffynnon Ofer," proves to be the Scolopeudrium vulgare of bo- 

 tanists. Lady Hall remarks that it is in "some parts of South Wales" 

 where this simple is known as " Dail llosgi Tan : " in fact, my enqui- 

 ries on the subject in some parts of North Wales, availed nothing at 

 al].~W. L. Beijnon; Torquay, April 22, 1843. 



Art. CXLIL — Proceedings of Societies. 



LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



January 17, 1843. — Edward Forster, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



Wm. Taylor, Esq., F.L.S., exhibited specimens of the oil, oil-cake, and seeds, of 

 Camelina sativa. 



Francis G. P. Neison, Esq., Wm. Maddocks Bust, M.D., and Wra. Osborn, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Read, a paper " On the Ovulum of Santalum," by W. Griffith, Esq. 



February 7. — Edward Forster, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



The Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of Neottia gemmipara, recent 

 ly found by Dr. Wood, of Cork, very near the original locality named by Mr. Drum- 

 mond. The specimen exhibited was in a much more advanced state than the one 

 preserved in Sir J. E. Smith's herbarium, and figured in ' English Botany.' 



