Reports of Societies. 



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Malva rotundifolia 

 M. moscliata 

 Medicago lupulina 

 Lotus corniculatus 

 Digitalis purpurea 

 Veronica serpyllifolia 

 Y. hederifolia 

 V. agrestis 

 Scrophularia nodosa 

 Pimpinella Saxifraga 

 Scandix Pecten-veneris 

 Petroselinum sativum 

 Artemesia vulgaris 

 Matricaria Chamomilla 

 Conium maculatum 

 Silene inflata 

 Sagina procumbens 

 Funaria claviculata 

 Lysimachia vulgaris 

 Chelidonium majus 

 Linum catharticum 

 Habenaria viridis 



Hypericum pulchrum 

 Tamus communis 

 Myosotis palustris 

 Borago officinalis 

 Echium yulgare 

 Lycopus Europeus 

 Scutellaria galericulata 

 Stachys sylvatica 

 S. Betonica 

 Erica cineria 

 Alisma Plantago 

 Potomogeton crispus 

 Sagittaria sagittifolia 

 Catabrosa aquatica 

 Alopecurus pratensis 

 Lolium perenne 

 Melica uniflora 

 Holcus mollis 

 H. lanatus 

 Juncus diflriisus 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum 

 Polyporus squamosus 



Mr. James Spencer, of Halifax, was next called upon to report upon the 

 geology of the neighbourhood, and to name the fossils exhibited. In his 

 remarks Mr. Spencer observed that the rock seen on each side of the 

 valley was the uppermost bed of the millstone grit, called the ''rough 

 rock." It is here, he said, prolific in the common coal measure plants, 

 but they are not in a good state of preservation. There were a few 

 specimens from the quarry opposite, consisting of impressions and casts 

 of Sigillaria, a not very common form of lepidodendron, &c., and also a 

 very good specimen of Dictyoxylon. A Uttle lower down the valley the 

 lower coal strata form the surface, and there, as well as on the hill-sides 

 above, the Halifax coals are worked. The roof of the hard-bed " 

 yields here, as well as in some other places, an abundance of marine 

 shells, consisting of Goniatites, .Nautili, Orthoceras, Aviculo-pecten, &c. ; 

 whilst the coal itself yields those famous coal balls which contain such a 

 rich suite of plants, and in so fine a state of preservation as to show, 

 under the microscope, their internal structure, as well as those of recent 

 plants. In the bed of the river and along its sides we meet with far- 

 travelled boulders, which bear evidence of the " age of ice," consisting of 

 granites, syenite, silurian grits, trap rocks, &c. The nearest place where 

 such rocks occur in situ is the Cambrian mountains ; some of these rocks 

 have such peculiar characteristic features as to enable us to trace them to 

 the parent rock often hundreds of miles away. Thus, boulders of the 



