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Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 

 Table continued. 



Feb. 1842 

 1st week 



2nd week 



3rd week 



4th week. 



Plants in Flower. 



Gagea arvensis 



Ficaria ranunculoides . 



Ophrys 



Senecio vulgaris 



Calendula arvensis 



Euphorbia helioscopia 

 peplus . 



Erophila vulgaris. 



General ... 

 XanthuSjMaeri 



Xanthus .. 



Patara 



Xanthus . . 

 Macri,Xanthus 

 General .. 

 General . . 



Thlaspi montanum 



Lamium amplexicaule, &c. 



Leontodon ? 



Thlaspi bursa pastoris 



Erophila? 



Senecio.'' 



Solanum nigrum 



Colutea arborescens 



Hyoscyamus aureus , 



Arabis ? , 



Cyclamen ? 



Tulipa Sibthorpiana . 



Scrophularia canina . 

 Biscutella eriocarpa . 



Galium? 



Saxifraga tridactylites. 

 hederacea . 



Fumaria capreolata . 

 Crocus? 



Locality. 



Xanthus,Macri 



Xanthus 



Zumbli 



General 



Zumbli 



Zumbli 



Oran 



General 



Tlos, Macri .. 



Tlos 



Zumbli 



Maori 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Mountains. 



On hOls of limestone and 

 serpentine. 



Damp grassy places : not 

 common. 



Woods. 



Sandy fields. 



Cultivated fields. 



Grassy places. 



Grassy places. 



On limestone and serpen- 

 tine liills. 



On limestone hills. 



Grassy and stony places. 



On Hmestone. 



On limestone. 



On serpentine only. 



Chiefly on serpentine. 



Woods, on sandstone. 



On limestone and tertiary 



On walls. 



On limestone cliffs. 



On limestone in stony 

 places. 



Bushy places on hmestone 

 by the sea. 



On walls. 



On walls. 



On walls. 



On limestone rocks. 



On wet hmestone rocks. 



Cultivated ground. 



Ceased to 

 flower. 



Lavandula Staehas in bud on the serpentine. 



3. Dr. Balfour read a report on the Progress and State of Botany in 

 Britain from February 1840 to January 1841, being a continuation 

 of a paper on the same subject submitted by Dr. Greville to the So- 

 ciety, and printed in its Transactions*. 



Dr. Balfour noticed the various discoveries which had been made 

 in structural, physiological and descriptive botany, — the floras, 

 monographs and catalogues which had appeared, — the additions 

 made to our knowledge of fossil botany, — the discoveries in the 

 theory of agriculture and vegetable chemistry, and concluded with 

 a catalogue raisonne of all the works and papers on botanical sub- 

 jects which had been published in Britain during the period era- 

 braced by his report. 



4. Dr. Balfour next read a communication which he had received 

 from Mr. Ralfs of Penzance, relative to the following species of 

 Algae : — 



* The report for the year 1841 will be given by Dr. Graham. 



