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Mr. M'Laren then proceeded to give descriptions of the various 

 British species and varieties, and illustrated the paper by specimens 

 and dissections. 



2. ' Notes of a Botanical Trip to England ;' by John T. Syme. 

 Mr. Syme went to London on the 27th of August, and made Hamp- 

 stead his head-quarters during the first fortnight of his excursion. 

 Here he noticed the frequency of Solanum nigrum, Scutellaria minor, 

 Lemna polyrhiza, Mentha Pulegium, and the occurrence of Chenopo- 

 dium glaucum, polyspermum and ficifolium, Rumex palustris and 

 pratensis, and Erysimum cheiranthoides. At Battersea Fields he 

 observed Scirpus triqueter and carinatus. Datura Stramonium, Cheno- 

 podium ficifolium and hybridum, Erigeron canadensis, Rumex palus- 

 tris, and Ql^nanthe Phellandrium. Mr. Syme also visited Putney 

 Heath, where he gathered Acorus Calamus, Actinocarpus Damaso- 

 nium, Rumex maritimus, and Marrubium vulgai-e. Scirpus carinatus 

 was very fine near Wandsworth Pier, and Setaria viridis grew in a 

 field near Lavender Hill ; Villarsia nymphaeoides occurred in the 

 ponds on Wandsworth and Claphara Commons. Mr. Syme then 

 went to the Isle of Wight, where he found Mentha rotundifolia, Jun- 

 cus obtusiflorus, Cypeius longus, and other plants of less interest. 

 He also visited Norfolk. At Norwich, Datura Stramonium and Ver- 

 bascum pulverulentum were found ; and Rumex palustris, Coryne- 

 phorus canescens, ChenojDodium murale, and Cicuta virosa near 

 Yarmouth. At Belton, in Suffolk, he noticed the occurrence of 

 Potamogeton pectinatus. Slum latifolium, AUhsea officinalis, and 

 Hordeum maritimum ; and at Lowestoft, Urtica pilulifera was found, 

 by Mr. Babington's directions to its locality, and Rumex pulcher. 

 Mr. Syme returned to Edinburgh on the 17th of September, and was 

 able to send between 500 and 600 specimens of plants to the Society, 

 belonging to species with which it was previously very ill supplied. 



3. ' Notice of the Discovery of Saxifraga Hirculus in Boovland 

 Moss, Walston, Lanarkshire, in September last ;' by Geo. J. Blackie. 

 The following are the Scottish stations in which this plant has been 

 found : — 



Langlon, Berwickshire. 



Source of the Medwyn, Pentland Hills, about eighteen miles south- 

 west from Edinburgh, where it was first gathered by Dr. Alexander 

 Hunter, September 11, 1836. 



Wet moor on the farm of Jacksbarns, or Jackston, parish of Glen- 

 bervie, Kincardineshire, where it was found by Mr. James Rae, June 

 29, 1839. 



