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2. Lent, tenor, pileo tcnui rcgnlari lati^ infundibuliformi rcpantlo ccrvino 

 fibris fasciciilatis stihcrispis vpstito s\)l)tus sericcn-sfriato inargiiie sub- 

 sulcato, stipite gracili .I'liuali pallido gramilato-fiirruraceo, laniellia 

 subdistantibu-s paliido-ligneis opacis lato-dciiticulatis glaiidulosisdecur- 

 rciilibus postice vix anastumosantibus. 



Lent, tcncr, Klotzsch ; Fries Syn. Lent. p. G, Epicr. p. 389 ; Berk, in Hook. 



L.onrl. ,h)urn. of Hot. ii. p. '.id'l. 

 Ilab. in ligno, in Mont. Organ, (Sardner; ad Kovam Anreliam, Klotzsch. 



3. Lent. Schombiirglcii, ])ileo tcniii late infundibnlifoinii repando ccrvino 

 floccis mollibus fasciculatis Icviter crispatis vostito demiini medio snb- 

 glabresccnte scriceo-striato, sti])ito a^quali subhuido parce furfitracoo 

 apice sericco, laniellis confcrtis tcnuibus decuncntibiis ])0sticu anasto- 

 mosantibus j)alljde cervinis eglandulosis acic denticulatis. 



Hub. in ligno sicco, in Guiana Uritannica, Schombtiryk. 



4. I^ent. nigripes, Fries. 



On the synonymy of this species, as well as of the two preceding, 

 Mr. Berkeley makes some observations. 



5. Lent. Leveillei, pileo tenui late infundibuliformi repando explanato 

 rigidiusculo floccis crispatis subfasciculatis rarioribus vestito, stipite 

 a?(juali nigro-furfuraceo, laniellis confertis fuscatis deciu-rentibus glan- 

 dulosis ochraceis acie granulato-dentatis postice vix anastoniosantibus. 



I/ab. ad Surinam. 



March 4. — R. Brown, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Read the commencement of " An Enumeration of the Plants of 

 the Galapagos Islands." By J. D. Hooker. Esq., M.D., F.L.S. &c. 



Read also some Additions and Corrections to his " Monograph of 

 the Myriapoda Chilopoda " read during the last Session. By George 

 Newport, Esq. Communicated by the Secretary. 



These additions have reference chiefly to the characters and habits 

 of the family Lithobiidce, and to the genus Scolopendrclla of M. Ger- 

 vais. This genus Mr. Newport had in his Synopsis Generum (Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. vol. xiv. p. 50) proposed to refer as a subfamily to Geophi- 

 lidcE ; but on a closer examination of its characters, he finds that they 

 indicate a much higher type of development and approximate it very 

 nearly to Lithobiidce. He proposes therefore to establish Scolopendrel- 

 Ud(E as a separate family, and to place them next after LithobiiddE. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDIXBURGII. 



April 10. 1845.— Dr. Seller. V.P.. in the Chair. 



A valuable donation of South American plants, from Robert Brown, 

 Esq.. was announced, for wliich the special thanks of the Society 

 were returned. 



The following communications were read : — 



1 . " On a monstrous variety of Gentiana campestris ," by Dr. Dickie 

 of Aberdeen. (See Annals, present Number, p. 387.) 



2. " On the correct nomenclature of the Laslrcea spinosa and L. 

 viultiflora of Newman," by Mr. Babington. (See p. 322.) 



3. " Account of a Botanical Excursion to the Mull of Cantyre and 

 Island of Islay in August 1844," by Prof. Balfour of Glasgow. 



Ann. i^ Mag. N. Hist. Vol. xv. 2 G 



