Miscellaneous, 509 Mr. M'Nab made the following report on the flowering of the plants in the open borders of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Lowest point of Names of plants in flower. Saxifraga oppositifolia, Adonis vemalis. Corydalis solida, C cava. Muscari botryoides, Orobus vemus. Geum altaicum, Lamium maculatum, Tritonia media. Anemone nemorosa. 20. . . 37 . . Fritillaria imperialis, Gagea lutea, Saxifraga crassi-folia. 21. .. 39 .. Primula Auricula, P. marginata, Alopecurus nigri-cans, Corydahs capnoides, Aubretia deltoidea. 22. . . 29 . . Saxifraga virginica, Geum pyrenaicum, Erigeron villo-sum. Primula villosa. 24. . . 23 . . Aubretia grandiflora, Orobus venosus. Narcissus pseudo-Narcissus, N. moschatus. No plants observed to flower. No plants observed to flower. Omphalodes vema. No plants observed to flower. No plants observed to flower. Dalibarda geoides. No plants observed to flower. April 1. .. 42 .. Hesperis arabidifolia, Viola pulmonensis. Narcissus bicolor, N. incomparabilis, Pulmonaria angustifolia. 3. . . 45 . . Alyssum saxatile, A. montanum, A. apenninum, Oro-bus flaccidus, Pulmonaria virginica. 4. . . 44 . . Pulmonaria officinalis. Euphorbia pilosa, Cardamine bellidifolia, Draba rupestris, Hierochloe borealis. 5. . . 38 . . Asphodelus tauricus, Carex stenophylla, C. pilosa, Euphorbia epithymoides, Orobus canescens. 6. . . 39 . . Anemone hortensis. Narcissus stellaris, Doronicum Pardalianches, Prunus Cerasus. 8. . . 45 . . Scilla italica, Lunaria vesicaria, Hyacinthus orien-talis. 9. . . 42 . . Potentilla opaca, Narcissus pallidus, Carex montana. 10. . . 43 . . Narcissus poeticus, Fritillaria Meleagris, Carex pilosa, Helonias buUata. MISCELLANEOUS. On Scolicia prisca, a Fossil Annelide of the Chalk. By A. DE QUATREFAGES. The whole line of coast of the bay of St. Sebastian is formed of laminated rocks belonging to the great cretaceous formation of the Pyrenees. At one of the points of this bay, near the chapel of Antigua, I found some very remarkable impressions evidently belonging to an Annelide of enormous size. Similar impressions are met with on the opposite rocks at the foot of the hill on which stands the lighthouse. It is at this latter locality that I collected the specimen of which the following is a brief description. The slab which I brought with me, and which npw forms part of the collection of the Museum, is about 0*50 metre in length by 0*45 in breadth. Its surface is traversed in
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