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Membo palm, Allare dyed by boiling,—the black with the bruised leaves 
of Mucuna Balfouriana, the red with the bruised wood of a tree called 
Ukpa, and the yellow with the bruised bark of a tree called Auniau. 
Mr W. W. Evans recorded the occurrence of Helminthia echioides, a 
rare Scotch plant, by the side of a field at Tynefield, near Tynningham, 
where it has probably been introduced. 
Thursday, 9th July 1863.—Professor Batrour, Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read :— 
1. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Diatoms from the South 
Pacific. By R. K. Grevinuz, LL.D., F.R.S.E., &e. Part II. 
(The paper appears in the present Number of this Journal, p. 181.) 
II. Description of the Fruit and Seed of Clerodendron Thomsone. By 
Professor Batrour. 
(The paper appears in the present Number of this Journal, p. 258). 
II. Notice of a Botanical Excursion to Kielder and Deadwater Fell, 
Northumberland, on 4th July 1863. By Professor Barour. 
Professor Balfour gave an account of a botanical trip to Kielder on 
Saturday, 4th July, with eighty pupils. The party went by the North 
British Railway to Riccarton, and thence by the Border Counties Railway 
to Kielder. They visited the woods near Kielder Castle, and proceeded 
by the Kielder Water to the mountains in the neighbourhood, ascending 
Deadwater Fell, which rises to the height of 1800 or 2000 feet. The 
numbers of species gathered were as follows :— 
Flowering plants, . : 5 am 
Ferns, Lycopods and 1 Equisetumms, ; : : 18 
Mosses, : : ; é : 66 
Jungermanniz, . ; ' ; : : 10 
Lichens, : s ; - : d ; ; 38 
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Among the plants collected were the following :— 
Carduus heterophyllus. Salix herbacea. 
Aquilegia vulgaris. Vaccinium Vitis-idzea. 
Spirea salicifolia. Botrychium Lunaria. 
Trollius europeus. Scolopendrium vulgare. 
Rubus Chameemorus. Hymenophyllum Wilsoni. 
Listera cordata. Cryptogramme crispa. 
Habenaria viridis, Polypodium Phegopteris. 
Melampyrum pratense var, mon- Lastrea Oreopteris. 
tanum. L. spinulosa. 
Veronica scutellata. L. dilatata var. alpina. 
Solidago Virgaurea. Asplenium Ruta-muraria. 
Corydalis claviculata. Exidia auricula. 
Sedum villosum. 
Among the Musci, Hepatice, and Lichenes, which were determined by 
Mr John Sadler, were the following :— 
