xxxvi proceedings of thk 



16th August, 1887. 



Mr. Thomas King, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd reported on an excursion made to the West 

 Kilbride district on 13th inst.* 



The Chairman announced that Ledum palustre, L , a plant new 

 to the Flora of Great Britain, had recently been discovered in the 

 neighbourhood of Bridge of Allan by a local botanist, whose 

 identification of the species has been confirmed by Sir J. D. Hooker 

 and Mr. James Ramsay. This plant was once reported for the 

 North-West of Ireland ; but as the record has never been con- 

 firmed, and is now generally regarded as extremely doubtful, the 

 species is excluded from recent works on British Botany. 



Mr. James Steel exhibited a number of live specimens of Anguis 

 J ragi lis, L., from Ailsa Craig, where these reptiles occur in some 

 abundance. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd showed examples of several interesting forms of 

 hymenopterous oak-galls obtained at West Kilbride. These in- 

 cluded the large spherical galls formed on the branches by Cynips 

 Kollari, Gir. ; the " artichoke galls " formed in the buds by 

 Andricus gemmce, L. ; the "silk-button galls" formed on the under- 

 side of the leaves by Neuroterus nwnismatis, Oliv.; and the '' oak- 

 spangles " formed on the underside of the leaves by N. baccarum, L. 



Mr. Boyd also exhibited specimens of Tet rainy xa parasitica, 

 Goebel, a fungus parasitic on the stems of Ruppia rostellata, Koch, 

 and occurring plentifully on that plant in shore-pools at Chapelton, 

 West Kilbride. 



Mr. David Gregorson, F.E.I.S., exhibited specimens of Carlina 

 vulgaris, L., and Pulicaria dy sent erica, Grertn., from Auchenhew, 

 Arran. 



Mr. John Wood exhibited a series of plants of Paris quadrifolia, 

 L., having the leaves in whorls of three, five, and six respectively, 

 and also showing variations in the parts of the flower. 



Mr. David Robertson, F.L.S., F.G.S., communicated papers on 

 41 The Pike, Esox lucius, L.," "f and " Isocardia cor, L." \ 



30th August, 1887. 

 Mr. Peter Ewing in the Chair. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd reported on an excursion made on 20th inst. to 

 Cleaves Cove and Blair Policies, near Dairy. § 



* Transactions, vol. ii., p. .328. t Ibid., p. 212. J Ibid., p. 215. $ Ibid., p. 329. 



