HISfORT of the SOCIETK 21 



" prickles, fhoot up from each root, and bear no fructification 

 " the firfk year. In their fecond year, they begin to produce 

 flowers about the fame time with the rafp-berry , in the firft week 

 of June, three or four weeks before the bramble ; but the fruit 

 does not come to maturity till the intermediate time between 

 " ripening of the rafp-berry and bramble-berry, that is, about 

 " the beginning of September. The fruit, which is of the colour 

 " of the red mulberry, has a peculiar tafte, fomewhat different 

 " from both. After bearing fruit, the ftalk perilhes in the fecond 

 " year, like that of the rafp ; but the root continues to produce 

 " new fhoots yearly, like that plant. ; Its characters may be ex- 

 " prefled, in the Linnoean ftyle, as follows : 



" Rubus (Nejfenfis) foliis quinat 0- digit at is, ternatis, feptenifque 

 " nudis, caule fubinermi) petiolis canaliculatis; Jiolonibus ereBis bi- 

 " ennalibus. 



" As it is fo nearly akin both to the rafp and the bramble, 

 it may perhaps be only a variety of one or t'other. But as 

 it is to be met with in different places on the banks and among 



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" the woods of Lochnefs, where it could not come from the 



fame root, it muft have been propagated by the feed, and 

 would therefore feem to be a different fpecies from either, and 

 from any other Rubus that I know of. I am," &c. 



1792, 



At this meeting, was alfo read the firft part of a paper on J an - 2 * 

 Electricity, by Mr John Leslie. ekdinaty. " 



Lit, CI. A part of Dr Ogilvy's paper on the Theology of J an " l6 ' 



■ m . * ° } Dr Ogilvy on 



Plato was read in continuation. The Society obferved with the theo -^> ■<* 

 regret, that the difcuffions of a religious nature contained in this 

 learned communication, rendered an admiflion of it among 

 their papers inconfiftent with the nature of their plan ; and 

 therefore it was not put into the hands of the Committee for 

 publication. 



Plato, 



