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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. llX 



The Secretary (Mr. D. A. Boyd) submitted the Report of the 

 Council on proposed alteration on the Constitution of the Society, 

 and gave notice of motions which he would make at next meeting 

 regarding the adoption of the revised Constitution. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., F.L.S., F.Z.S., exhibited a Hybrid 

 between a female Pied Wagtail (Motacilla lugubris) and hybrid 

 male Wagtail (M. melanopa x lugubris), on which some remarks 

 were made by Mr. James Barrie Low, JV1.A. 



Mr. James J. F. X. King exhibited a specimen of Eupithecia 

 togata, Hb., a moth captured by him last summer at Killarney, and 

 stated that although the insect has been taken in Perthshire, Rox- 

 burghshire, and the neighbourhood of Glasgow, no instance of its 

 previous occurrence in Ireland seems to have been recorded. 



Mr. George Russell exhibited specimens of several exotic Orchids, 

 including an aberrant form of Odontoglossum crispum with a 

 fasciated stem and two additional stems abnormally developed from 

 the base of the pseudo-bulb. He also showed a Hybrid Azalea, 

 remarkable for the unusually fine development of the petaloid calyx. 



Mr. R. S. Wishart, M.A., exhibited a collection of Flowering- 

 plants gathered in Switzerland in July and August, 1887, and 

 comprising 49 specimens, arranged to illustrate the natural orders 

 from Campanulacece to Graminece inclusive. 



Rev. David Landsborough, Corresponding Member, exhibited a 

 specimen of Polyporus squamosus, Fr., found growing on an old 

 anvil in a disused smithy near Kilmarnock. 



Mr. Landsborough also read a paper entitled " Notes on the 

 Occurrence of Cephalantliera ensifolia, Rich., in Arran and Ayr- 

 shire." He stated that this orchid was discovered in Arran by his 

 father, the Rev. David Landsborough, D.D., who, in a poem on 

 Arran, published in 1829, thus refers to the plant : 



'■ I 've oft explored thy glens and tangled brakes, 

 Where every bank blooms with the primrose pale, 

 And drooping hyacinth ; and where amidst 

 Her ensiformal leaves, on stately stem, 

 Sweet Epipactis, rarest of thy plants, 

 Builds up her pyramid of snowy gems." 



He adds in a note : — " Epipactis ensifolia, found at Whiting-bay, 

 Sliddery, and Sannox ; " and he afterwards writes, in 1842 : " We 

 searched in vain the hazel copses of Knockingelly for Epipactis 

 ensifolia — a rare and beautiful plant. I had often seen it in that 

 locality, but the flowering season was over, and it had died down." 



