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24. Jungermannia rmdtifida, L. On moist rocks among mosses ; 

 fructifying in several places. 



25. — nemorosa, L. In a great variety of situations. 



Var. /3. purpurascens, in Hell Cleft. 



Var. y. recurvifolia, on rocks near streams. 



26. — pinguis, L. In bogs and near streams. 

 27. — plutyphylla, 1j. Rocks. 



28. — polyanthos, L. On stones in the bed of the Balder. 



29. — pubescetis, Schrank. Frequent on rocks (chiefly limestone) 

 near the Tees and its tributaries. I found perigonin in abundance, 

 but no calyces, though I searched most minutely. 



30. — reptans, L. Cronkley Scarr ; XQvy sparingly. 



31. — riparia, Tayl. MSS. Sides of streams ; not common. 



32. — scalaris, Schrad. Frequent in moist situations. 



33. — serpyllifoUa, Dicks. Near the High Force, Hell Cleft and 

 other places, yet nowhere abundant. 



34. — setacea, Web. Heathy situations near Maize beck and 

 Cronkley Scan*. 



35. — spi?ndosa, Dicks. Near the High Force and Caldron Snout, 

 but rather rare. 



36. — Tamarisci, L. On rocks and about the roots of trees. 



37. — Taylori, Hook. Cronkley Scarr and the west side of Mickle 

 Fell. 



38. — Trkhomanls, Dicks. Frequent. 



39. — trichophylla, L. Abundant in moist situations. 



40. — undulata, L. Maize beck. Dr. Taylor's opinion that this 

 is only a variety of J. nemorosa (' Flora Hibernica,' part ii. p. 61) is, 

 I fear, too well founded. 



41. Marchantia androgyna, L. Exceedingly abundant on rocks by 

 the Tees, Ettersgill beck, and other streams. 



Collegiate School, York, Nov. 15, 1843. 



XXXVI. — On the Fossil Vegetables of the Sandstone of Ayrshire. 

 By J. Shedden Patrick, F.R.S.E., F.R.SS.A. &c.* 



[With a Plate.] 



Having observed, in visiting the Museum of the Royal Societv, 

 that, although it contained many fossils of interest, especially a 

 very beautiful and complete series from England, presented by 

 the Earl of Cathcart, those of Ayi'shire appeared to be altogether 

 wanting, I was induced to take advantage of a few months' re- 

 sidence in the district of Cuninghanie in that county, during the 

 summer of 1843, to make a small collection of some of the prin- 

 cipal fossils of the locality for the purpose of presentation to the 

 Society's museum. 



The fossil vegetables which constitute the collection were ob- 



* Read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Jan. 2nd, 1844. 



