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dioica^ Sarracenia purpurea, and S. flava — it appeared to be 
very local, even there. The soil seemed of the usual peaty 
formation common to the pine barren, and it is difficult to 
account for the plant having so restricted a range. The 
only insect found entrapped by the leaves was a species of 
midge. Another very local plant, the Solidago verna, grew 
close by, for which this is the only locality known. 
Mr. Melyill also exhibited a specimen of Eiiptychia 
metahleta (Crosse), a land shell lately discovered in Mada- 
gascar, connecting the Genera Cyclostoma and Cyclophorus, 
and distinguishable from all other land shells by its scalari- 
form variels. 
February 15 th, 1875. 
Charles Bailey, Esq,, in the Chair. 
Mr. Rogers exhibited a specimen of Carex ornithopoda, 
Willd., collected by Mr. J. Whitehead in Millersdale, Derby- 
shire, in July of last year. 
Mr. Charles Bailey remarked that this specimen v^as 
identical with examples which he exhibited from Saxony 
and Lower Austria, and that it was a very interesting addi- 
tion to the flora of the district as well as to that of Great 
Britain. Its nearest’ ally was Carex digitata, L,, but this 
species is not known to occur in the neighbourhood of Man- 
chester, although found in the extreme north of the county. 
Its distribution all over Europe is rather perplexing as it is 
entirely absent from extensive areas ; it is rare in France 
and Luxembourg, and unrecorded for Belgium proper. Hob 
Imid, and Denmark, It is a Scandinavian species, and com- 
mon in the Rhine provinces, as well as in Germany, Austria> 
