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On behalf of Mr. James W. White, Mr. Scott Elliot exhibited 

 Stachys aljnna, Linn. According to Mr. White's notes, this was 

 not known to be a British plant until the summer of 1897, when 

 it was discovered by Mr. Cedric Bucknall {Journal of Botany, 

 XXXV., p. 380). The plant occurs on some southern spurs of the 

 Cotswold Hills, about 12 miles north of Bristol, at an elevation of 

 from 550 to 650 feet, and is associated with many of the species 

 that accompany it at its stations on the Continent — viz., Pyrus 

 Aria, Sm., Valeriana Mikanii, (Wats.), Camjmnula glomerata, 

 Linn., Stachys sylvatica, Linn., Polygonatum officinale, All., and 

 Convallaria majalis, Linn. The Gloucestershire locality is, for 

 the most part, elevated woodland upon Oolite covering the Upper 

 Lias sands. The plant is thinly scattered in clumps through the 

 more open portions of the woods, and along the borders, evidently 

 preferring the sunniest and most sheltered positions. It occurs 

 also in thickets below the woodland, and abundantly on hedge- 

 banks for a considerable distance, the total area being about two 

 square miles. The English plant, according to Mr. White, is 

 taller and more robust than any Continental specimens that he 

 had seen, and larger in all its parts than the other British species. 

 Stem erect, stifiF, 2| to 3 feet high. Lowest leaves cordate oval 

 on long stalks, upper ones sessile, floral leaves large, straight- 

 sided, gradually increasing in size from the terminal tuft down- 

 ward, dark bronze or purplish-green, very hairy and velvety on 

 both surfaces. Corolla larger and broader than in Stachys 

 sylvatica, purplish, blotched with orange and white, woolly out- 

 side, and having a ring of oblique hairs within the tube. Whole 

 plant dark in hue, hairy and velvety throughout, and rather 

 glandular towards the top. It flowers at the beginning of July. 



Mr. Oswald Fergus, D.D.S., exhibited some abnormalities in the 

 Dandelion, Greengage, and Walnut, and fracture and true union 

 of bones in Grouse, Partridge, and Pheasant, and anchylosis in 

 long bones of last-named. Messrs. S. M. Wellwood and G. F. 

 Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc, etc., referred to the frequency of 

 double-headed flowers in the Dandelion, and the Compositse 

 generally. Mr James Jack exhibited a double-headed flower of 

 Chrysanthemum maximum, Ramond. 



Mr. Chas. Kirk exhibited an albino Hedge-sparrow (Accentor 

 modular is (Linn.) ), from Uddingston. 



