Miscellaa eo us . 515 



Hieroehlo'e may likewise be got. It also fringes the edge of the 

 river. Bixt the plant must be looked for at the time indicated ; for 

 by the third week of June, the beauty of Hierochloe has passed awav, 

 and by the first week of July the herbage has become so rank, that 

 the Holy Grass, now ripe, and turned of a silky brown, is completely 

 hidden from view. Farther up, between Geize and a section of 

 boulder clay a little below Todholes, the plant may likewise be picked 

 in hundreds. Hierochloe has never failed to appear iu these localities 

 for twenty years." 



5. " On the occurrence of ' Cinchonaceous Glands' in Galiaeece. and 

 on the relatione of that Order to Cinchonacece,'' by Mr. G. Lawson. 

 This paper will be found in the ' Annals ' for September, and in the 

 Society's Trail- 



6. "Notes of a Trip to Inchkeith and Inchcohn," bv Professor 

 Balfour. The Professor found upon Inchkeith 132 flowering plants 

 and 6 ferns; on Inchcohn he saw 160 of the former class of plants 

 and 4 of the latter. 



The following were the principal plants found on Inchkeith : — 



./■(/, Cochlearia danica, Geranium proteose, Conium macu- 



. Haloscias scoticum, Sambucus (nigra var.) laciniata, Silybum 



marianum, Carduus acanthoides, Senecio ci*eoxi>s:. Hyoaeyamus niger, 



Linaria Gymbalaria, Marrubium vulgare, Habenaria vtridis, Caret 



disfans and vulpina, and Selerochloa maritima. 



On Inchcohn : — Cochlearia danica, Papaver somntferum, Cheiran- 

 thus Cheiri. I)ij).sacirs sylvestris, Haloseias seotieum, Hyoseyamus 

 niger, and Paru far' 



7 ■ '" Observations on the Morpholosv of Pines," bv Professor 

 M'Cosh. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On the Ccenurus eerebralis of the Sheep. By Dr. KOchenmeister :; . 



Ox the 6th January 1834, at S o'clock iu the evening, aud on the 

 7th January, at 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon, I gave some mature pro- 

 glottides of the Taenia ceenurus of the dog to six lambs of from six 

 to nine months old, taken from three different flocks, which were not 

 subject to vertigo. On the "20th January, the animals exhibited the 

 first symptoms of vertigo. They were then successively killed, and 

 presented the following phenomena on examination. 



On the seventeenth day after introduction, from twenty to thirty 

 vesicles (Canv.ri) inhabited the surface of the brain ; the substance 

 of the orain was hollowed into galleries, as though a Sarcoptes had 

 been forming its passage ; the vesicles were still free and without 

 envelopes, and of the size of a grain of millet, 



* The experiments here detailed were made previously to those oi 

 Prof. Van Beneden. of which we gave a notice in our last Number. The 

 proglottides employed by the learned Professor of Louvain, wore derived 

 from Tsenias produced from the Canuri obtained in these experiments of 

 Dr. ELiichenmeister. 



