CONTENTS OF VOL. V. 



NUMBER XXVIII. 



Page 

 L On Scrophularia aquatica of Linnseus and Ehrhart. By Charles 

 Abbot Stevens, Esq., B.A., F.B.S.E. (With a Plate.)... ..page 1 



II. Catalogue of the Species of Fungi obtained in the North of Ire- 

 land, by John Templeton, Esq., of Cranmore, Belfast. By Thomas 

 Taylor, M.D., M.R.I.A., F.L.S 3 



III. Additions to the Fauna of Ireland. By W. Thompson, Esq., 

 Vice-Pres. of the Natural History Society of Belfast 6 



IV. Nonnullorum Cerambycitum novonim, Novam Hollandiam et 

 Insulam Van Diemen habitantium, characteres. By Edward Newman, 

 F.L.S., &c 14 



V. Description of Limneus involutus, Harvey, MS. By W. Thomp- 

 son, Vice-President of the Natural History Society of Belfast ; — with 

 an account of the Anatomy of the Animal. By John Goodsir, Esq. 

 <With a Plate) 22 



VI. On certain characters in the Crania and Dentition of Carnivora 

 which may serve to distinguish the subdivisions of that Order. By 



G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 25 



VII. Summary Description of Four new Species of Otter, By B. 



H. Hodgson, Resident at Catmandu, Nepal 27 



VIII. Information respecting Botanical Travellers : — Mr. Schom- 

 burgk's Narrative of his recent Expedition in Guiana 29 



New Books : — A History of British Ferns, by Edward Newman, F.L.S. 

 — Iter Hispaniense, or a Synopsis of Plants collected in the South- 

 ern Provinces of Spain and Portugal, by Philip Barker Webb — 

 Otia Hispauica, seu Delectus Plantanim rariorum aut nondum rite 

 notarum per Hispanias spontenascentium, Auctore P. B.Webb.— 

 On the Organs of Secretion in Plants, by Dr. F. J. F. Meyen. — De- 

 scription of a new Genus of Plants of the Family Leguminosce, by 

 Guglielmo Gasparini. — Observations on the duration and germina- 

 tion of Grammitis, by Guglielmo Gasparini ...» 36 — 43 



Proceedings of the Linnaean Society ; Zoological Society; Microscopical 



Society; Royal Irish Academy 44 — 67 



On Datisca Cannahina and Impregnation ; On a new Genus of Cepha- 

 lopoda ; Derivation of the TefF and the Tocusso, two Species oi 



