204 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF DUBLIN. 
up; and many that have been recovered show signs of having had a 
new piece of netting put over the part torn by the hook. 
It is said that the first Regadera discovered in Cebu was sold for 50 
dollars, and that a Dr. Caloo, who took it to Manilla, was there offered 
200 dollars for it. -For some time after that they continued to be worth 
16 dollars each. ; 
It was only in 1865 that they became abundant, through the pre- 
sent bed being discovered. 
Dr. A. MacarisrEr read the following :— 
CoNTRIBUTIONS TO THE FLORA oF KINROSS-SHIRE. 
Durine the past two years it has been my lot to spend a part of each 
summer in Kinross-shire; and during these visits—the one in April, 
the other in September—I have collected a good many plants, and have 
ascertained some localities that I think are new for plants which are 
not of common occurrence. 
The district in which my observations were conducted is that por- 
tion of Eastern Scotland bounded northwards by the low-lying lands in 
the neighbourhood of the Bridge of Earn (Scottice the Laigh of Strath- 
earn); southwards by the shore of Lochleven and its vicinity; east- 
ward by the Lomond Hill and the parish of Strathmiglo; and westward 
by the end of the Ochil range. Over this district, from the centre at 
Duncrievie in Arngask parish, my rambles have extended for a distance 
of from four to ten miles each way: and.although my visits were not 
well timed for a thorough botanical exploration, yet my labour was 
abundantly rewarded, as the subjoined list will show. 
To the botanist the district is interesting, as it contains the late re- 
sidence of one who was a master in the science, Dr. Walker Arnott, of 
Arlary, to whom we are indebted for a goodly number of plant locali- 
ties in this very district, but who never, as far as I am aware, published 
anything like a detailed Flora of the neighbourhood, except the short 
