NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. Vll 



visiting the banks of the Locher Water, and returning by way 

 of Howwood. Mr. M'Kay gave a report on the flowering plants 

 observed, and Mr. D. A. Boyd on the cryptogams— these being 

 respectively as follows : 



Lepidium campestre, R. Br. 



Srmthii, Hook. 

 Meum Atlutmantieum, Jacq. 

 Senecio saracenicus, L. 

 Aspidium aculeatum, Sw. 

 Andrecea petrophila, Ehrh. 



falcata, Schpr. 

 A m pJi o ridiu m Mougeotii, 

 B. & S. 



Bryttm alpinum, L. 

 Hypnum fluitans, L. 



e x annul at u m , 



Giimb. 

 uncinatum, Hedw. 

 patientia% Lindb. 

 Agaricus (Amanita) rubes- 



ccns, P. 

 Ustilago vrccolorum, Tul. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd exhibited specimens of the following plants : 



Nasturtium arnphibium, Koch. — River Garnock near Kil- 

 winning. 



Centunculus minimus, L. — Gravelly sea -shore near Millport. 



Care.v oralis, Good., " var. bracteata, Syme." — Growing from 

 the same root with typical stems of C. oralis, in an old 

 quarry at Bridge of Weir. 



Arena pubescens, L.— Millport. 



Mr. R. Turner made some remarks on Nasturtium amphibiu/m, 

 Koch, which appears to have been common in Clydesdale at 

 the time when Hopkirk's Flora Glottiana was written, but has 

 gradually disappeared from the district. A similar disappear- 

 ance of this plant from its former stations in Dumfriesshire 

 and Kirkcudbright has also been reported. 



Mr. William Stewart exhibited Poh/porus frondosus, Fr., 

 a fungus found growing on a tree-stump in front of Albany 

 Place, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. 



Mr. William Goodwin reported that he had seen a Kingfisher, 

 Alcedo ispida, L., on the Clyde at Bothwell, on 14th inst.; and 

 Mr. James Steel made some remarks on instances of the recent 

 occurrence of this bird on the Clyde above Glasgow.* 



31st August, 1886. 



Mr. Thomas King in the Chair. 



Mr. Peter Ewing exhibited specimens of Tragopogon protein- 

 sis, L., and T. porrifolius, L., from the sides of a railway 

 embankment between Uddingston and Cambuslang. 



Mr. Ewing made some remarks on the resemblance between 

 the Flora of Scotland and that of Scandinavia, as shown by the 

 occurrence in this country of varieties which have been 

 described by Scandinavian botanists. As examples of these 

 varieties, he exhibited specimens of Car ex aquatilis, Wahl., 



* See Proceedings, vol. v.. p. 289. 



