252 Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



Table continued. 



Date. 



Feb. 1842 

 1st week 



2nd week 



3rd week 



4th week 



Plants in Flower. 



Gagea arvensis 



Ficaria ranunculoides 



Ophrys 



Senecio vulgaris 



Calendula arvensis .... 

 Euphorbia helioscopia 

 peplus . 



Erophila vulgaris. 



Thlaspi montanum 



Lamium amplexicaule, &c. 



Leontodon ? 



Thlaspi bursa pastoris 



Erophila ? 



Senecio? 



Solanum nigrum 



Colutea arborescens 



Hyoscyamus aureus 



Arabis ? 



Cyclamen ? 



Tulipa Sibthorpiana . 



Scrophularia canina . 

 Biscutella eriocarpa . 



Galium? 



Saxifraga tridactylites. 

 hederacea . 



Fumaria capreolata . 

 Crocus? 



Locality. 



General 



Xanthus,Macri 



Xanthus ... 



Patara , 



Xanthus ... 

 Macri,Xanthus 

 General ... 

 General ... 



Xanthus,Macri 

 Xanthus ... 



Zumbli 



General . . , 



Zumbli 



Zumbli 



Oran , 



General ... 

 Tlos, Macri 



Tlos 



Zumbli 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Macri 



Mountains. 



Habitat. 



not 



On hills of limestone and 

 serpentine. 



Damp grassy places 

 common. 



Woods. 



Sandy fields. 



Cultivated fields. 



Grassy places. 



Grassy places. 



On limestone and serpen- 

 tine hills. 



On limestone hills. 



Grassy and stony places. 



On limestone. 



On limestone. 



On serpentine only. 



Chiefly on serpentine. 



Woods, on sandstone. 



On limestone and tertiary. 



On walls. 



On limestone cliffs. 

 On limestone in stony 

 places. 



Bushy places on limestone 



by the sea. 

 On walls. 

 On walls. 

 On walls. 



On limestone rocks. 

 On wet limestone rocks 

 Cultivated ground. 



Ceased to 

 flower. 



Lavandula Stcechas in bud on the serpentine. 



3. Dr. Balfour read a report on the Progress and State of Botany in 

 Britain from February 1840 to January 1841, being a continuation 

 of a paper on the same subject submitted by Dr. Greville to the So- 

 ciety, and printed in its Transactions*. 



Dr. Balfour noticed the various discoveries which had been made 

 in structural, physiological and descriptive botany, — the floras, 

 monographs and catalogues which had appeared, — the additions 

 made to our knowledge of fossil botany, — the discoveries in the 

 theory of agriculture and vegetable chemistry, and concluded with 

 a catalogue raisonne of all the works and papers on botanical sub- 

 jects which had been published in Britain during the period em- 

 braced by his report. 



4. Dr. Balfour next read a communication which he had received 

 from Mr. Ralfs of Penzance, relative to the following species of 

 Algse : — 



* The report for the year 1841 will be given by Dr. Graham. 



