220 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
BotanicaLSociety or EDINBURGH, 11¢h April.—Alexander Buchan, 
M.A., Vice-president, in the chair. The following communications were 
read :—** Notes on the cultivation and preparation of Lactucarium,” 
Thomas Fairgrieve, communicated by Jas. Paton; on “ Fossi! Plants found 
in the Coal-fields of Slammanan, Falkirk, Deeside, and Tillicoultry,” by 
. Peach, A.L.S.; Report on the open-air vegetation at the Royal 
Botanic Garden (No. III., 1872), by Mr. McNab. 
9¢h May.—Professor Wyville Thomson, President, in the chair. The 
following communications were read :— npublished letters by the late 
Dr. Alex. Carroll Maingay, communicated by Sir Walter Elliot; “ Results 
of Botanical Travels in the region of the Rocky Mountains, during the 
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Potanical Hebs. 
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
Linnea (April, 1872). O. Bóckeler, * The Cyperacez of the Royal 
Berlin herbarium ” (concluded).—C. Müller, “ Musci australici presertim 
] risbanici novi.” —E. Hampe, * Hypna duo Australie.” —P. Rohr bach, 
* Contributions to a knowledge of the Caryophyllinez.” 
Bulletin de Soc. Bot. de France, tom. xviii. no. 2 (Séances = 
July—10 Nov. 1871).—4. Delondre, “ Recent progress of Cinchona 
: iti : ** On two Hymenomycetous 
Fungi destructive to woodwork (Merulius lacrimans and Polyporus obdu- 
cens) —L. Cosson, ** Directions for making botanical observations 
collections "' (concluded).— Germain de S. Pierre, ** On the course of t 
sap and the origin of the tissues."— A. Brongniart and A. Gris 
rod . E. , 
physiological action of freezing on plants."— 2. Clos, “On the A e 
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