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MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
January 8th, 1879. 
Charles Bailey, F.L.S., President of the Section, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. Hastings Charles Dent, of the City Surveyor’s Office, 
Town Hall, and 112, Bury New Road, Manchester, was 
elected a member of the Section. 
Mr. Thomas Rogers read a paper on, and exhibited many 
specimens of, ballast plants collected at Cardiff in Septem- 
ber, 1878. 
The following list shows that the majority of the plants 
collected are of South European origin, interspersed with a 
few North American and Eastern Indian species. 
Foreign Plants— Cardiff Ballast. 
Natural Order. Native Country. 
London Encyc, 
RanunculaceEe ...Nigella damascena South Europe 
Cruciferse Berteroa incana „ „ 
Camelina foetida ,, „ 
Bunias orientale Levant 
Sisymbrium pannonicum . . . Hungary 
Iberis umbellata probably an escape 
from gardens 
Erysimum orientale Levant 
Resedacese Reseda Durisei Algiers 
Malvaceae Lavatera punctata Italy 
Malva nicoeensis „ 
Limnanthaceee . . . Limnanthes sulphurea California 
Zygophyllacese ...Tribulus terrestris South Europe 
Leguminosse Anthrolobium scorpioides . . . „ ,, 
Cicer arietinum ,, ,, 
Coronilla varia Europe 
