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comprising MicraHerias angnlosa, Staur'astrum anatmum, T. Sehaldi, 

 Xanthidmm armatum, and *S^. phvtania condensata. Mr. Washington 

 Teasdale, F.R.M.S., showed a section of a cryptogamic plant (probably 

 Asteromyolon) which was discovered about sixteen years ago, by an 

 eminent, though humble, naturalist named Adam Mathison, of Jedburgh, 

 Scotland ; Mr. C. R. Nf wton, a series of slides illustrative of the adult- 

 eration of flour with rice, peas, oats, barley, maize, &c. Amongst other 

 microscopical objects Mr. F. Emsley showed parasites of the corncrake, 

 a stained section of ivy, and earth mites. There were also exhibited 

 several lichens, collected on a piece of wet moorland near Harrogate, by 

 Mr. James Grainge. — H. Pollard, Sec. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society. — At the January meeting of 

 this society. Dr. Carrington, the president, brought before the notice 

 of the members a series of Hepaticse which he had collected at Killarney 

 in the year 1861. He called especial attention to some specimens of 

 Radnla aqnilegia, which he had described in his " Gleanings amongst 

 Irish Cryptogams," published soon afterwards. One of the specimens 

 was named Eadula aquilegia, var. majors but since that time Dr. Moore 

 and Mr. G. E. Hunt had found it with male plants, and Prof. Lindberg 

 had also, during a visit to Ireland, been fortunate enough to discover 

 the fertile plant. Dr. Carrington having recently received specimens, 

 strangely enough, through the executors of the late Mr. T. C. Austin of 

 America, he now no longer hesitates to rank it as a distinct species, and 

 names it in honour of his late friend Dr. Moore of Dublin, as Radula 

 Moorei. Dr. Carrington said that at the time he collected it he was 

 strongly inclined to recognise it as a species, but in the absence of 

 fructification, and in deference to the opinions of Dr. Gottsche and Prof. 

 Lindberg, he had then described it as a variety only. 



Meeting, 21st February, Dr. Carrington, F.R.S.E., in the chair. — 

 After the minutes of the previous meeting had been confirmed, Dr. Car- 

 rington wished to correct an error in the description of Radula Moorei^ 

 so far as the reference to the fertile specimens of Prof. Lindberg had 

 been made. Mr. W. H. Pearson exhibited specimens and drawings of 

 Radula commutata, of Gottsche's M.SS., a species new to Britain. 

 Specimens of this species had been collected some time ago, by A. Croal, 

 but the particular specimen then exhibited had been collected last J uly, 

 on the Breadalbane mountains, by G. A. Holt, these, however, had not 

 been recognised as Radula comm.utata until a recent examination made 

 by himself. Specimens of Lepidozia reptans were referred to in Carring- 

 tcm's and Pearson's E<pitic(B Britannicm Exsiccatce (which lay on the 

 table). Dr. Carrington pointing out that the particular specimen from 

 Tyn-y-Croes had been examined by Dr. Spruce, and found to be quite 

 distinct, he having had specimens sent to him by Mr. Pearson for that 

 purpose, and which he now named as Lepidozia Pearsoni. The examina- 



