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execution of their Flora. We wish it all success, and congratulate its 
compilers upon the completion of their task. 
J. Li. W 
Proceedings of Societies, 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY or EpiNBURGHR.— June 13th.—Dr. McBain, R.N., 
in the chair. The following communications were read :— Report on a 
Botanical Trip to the Breadalbane Mountains, with Pupils, in July, 1871.” 
y Professor Balfour. “On a Cone of FPlemingites gracilis attached to its 
stem, from Grange Quarry, Burntisland.” By Charles W. Peach, A.L.S. 
The author stated that Mr. Carruthers, of the British Museum, had 
instituted the genus Flemingites, from a portion of a cone found in 
ritish carboniferous rocks, and named it Fiemingites gracilis, and had 
added in 1869 a new species Irom stems and sporangia from similar 
rocks in Brazil, and fully described them in the ‘ Geological Maga- 
rted. 
Thus, in neither cases had he seen a cone attached to a branch. ‘The 
author then exhibited two cones of Flemingites gracilis attached to stems 
Grange Quarry, Burntisland, and from Slateford, showing the 
lete. 
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r and longer and more patent; so different that he believed, but 
i if so, it would 
shaped like a boy’s paper kite, agreeing with much larger ones occurring 0n 
