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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES, &c. 



Botanical Society of Edinbobgh. 



Alpine British Plants, particularly Hieracia, by James Backhouse, Jun., 804; 

 Pseudathyrium alpestre, by Dr. Balfour, F.L.S., 808 ; distribution of plants 

 in Madeira, by John M'Laren, Esq., 808 ; structure of Pentas carnea, by 

 Daniel Oliver, Jun., Esq., 809 ; dyeing properties of Lichens, by Dr. Lauder 

 Lindsay, 867, 901, 998, 1068; flora of the district of the neighbourhood of 

 Peebles,by James Young, Esq., 872; cultivation of Victoria regia, in Jamaica, 

 by Dr. M'Nab, 872; remarks on British plants, by C. C. Babington, Esq., 

 M.A., &c., 900, 912 ; Asplenium germanicum, &c., at Kyloe, Northumberland, 

 by G. R. Tate, Esq., 909 ; palms, bamboos, pines, &c., on the Hiraalya, by Major 

 Madden, 911 ; remarkable formation of a stem-root in a willow, by John 

 Lowe, Esq., 913; new species of Caulerpa, by Dr. Greville, 984; Myosotis 

 alpestris ; Thymus Serpyllum and T. Chamasdrys, by C. C. Babington, Esq., 

 M.A., 984 ; tour in the Hartz mountains, by Dr. L. Lindsay, 985 ; characters of 

 the natural order Solanacese, by Thomas Anderson, Esq., 993 ; on the flora 

 of the island of Arran, by Dr. Balfour, F.L.S., 998 ; botanical trip to Ireland, 

 by Dr. Balfour, 1005; on the Cryptogamic plants of the neighbourhood of 

 St. Andrews, by A.O. Black, Esq., 1070; remarks on the hardiness of certain 

 Coniferap, as shown by the effects of the past winter, by W. W. Evans, Esq., 

 1072; notice of the production of Cones, in 1851, on Pinus Lambertiana, by 

 A. G. Spiers, Esq., 1073; measurement of trees in Gurhwal and Kemaon,by 

 John Strachey, Esq.,C.S., 1073; notice of the osseous legumenof the Hymenaea 

 Courbaril,by Dr. Seller, 1074; on the raver plants found in the neighbourhood 

 of Ripon, by James B. Davies, Esq., 1077 ; on Melampyrum montanum of 

 Dr. Johnston, by Daniel Oliver, jun., Esq., 1078. 



Botanical Society of London. 



Report of Council, 802 ; Asplenium viride in a quasi spontaneous condition near 

 Brighton, by Thomas Moore, Esq., F.L.S., 842; Report of Meeting, 916. 



Dublin Natueal History Society. 



Undescribed variety of Blechnum spicant, by J. R. Kinahan, Esq., 892; on the 

 insects causing the potato disease, by Mr, Nuttall, 895 ; on Trichomanes spe- 

 ciosum in Valentia Island, by Dr. Harvey, 1007; on the classification and 

 nomenclature of ferns, by J. R. Kinahan, Esq., 1033. 



Linnean Society of London. 



Position of the raphe in analropal ovules, by Benjamin Clark, Esq., F.L.S., &c., 827 ; 

 on foetid vegetable gums, by W. K. Loftus, Esq., 832 ; on the forest trees of 

 British Guiana, and their uses in naval and civil architecture, by Sir Robert 

 H. Schomburfifhk, 849 ; occurrence of an eatable Nostoc in the Arctic Regions, 

 by J. D. Hooker, M.D., F.R.S., &c., 856 ; on the development of ferns from 

 their spores, by Arthur Henfrey, Esq., F.R.S., 1019 ; on venation as a generic 

 character in ferns ; with observations on the geoera Hewardia of J. Smith, 

 and Cionidium of Moore, by Thomas Moore, Esq., F.L.S., Curator of the 

 Botanic Garden, Chelsea, 1021 ; note on the nature of fasciated stems, by the 

 Rev. William Hincks, F.L.S., Professor of Natural History in Queen's Col- 

 lege, Cork, 1024. 



