MB. DONALDSON SELBY's ADDRESS. 2G7. 



near the same place, Gallium moUugo and Gallium boreale abun- 

 dantly, and the latter also on Scaithmuir, below Lennel Hill. 

 He has also communicated the following habitats of some of 

 our rarer plants, viz., Pyrola minoTy in a wood between the 

 farm of Swinton Hill and Simprim, and in a wood on the 

 farm of Milne Graden ; Cardamine amara, in a ditch near 

 the Sowmire, at Swinton ; in abundance in a wood on Milne 

 Graden estate ; Lythrum salicaria^ in a pond on Simprlin 

 farm. 



I have also to communicate the following observation in 

 Botany, by our Secretary : — Leontodon taraxacum. Growing on 

 Spittal Links, intermingled with the ordinary state of the 

 plant, there grows abundantly, a variety of Dandelion, which 

 is remarkable for its superior neatness and prettiness. It is 

 smaller in all its parts, and the leaves lie expanded in a stel- 

 late or roseate fashion on the ground. They are very deeply 

 cut, almost to the midrib, into many regular and neat seg- 

 ments, all pointing backwards ; the terminal are as usual the 

 largest The flower stalk is firm and round, gently tapered 

 upwards, erect, or gracefully bent in a sigmoid flexure. The 

 flowers small, and very neat, with the calyx segments all 

 erect — the exterior broadly ovate, acute, with purplish mar- 

 gins, — the apices of the floret with 5 equal obtuse serratui-es. 

 It flowers in May. This variety is very distinct from the 

 Leontodon palustre of Smith, with which, however, it agrees 

 in the erect and appressed position of the outer scales of the 

 involucre ; nor can it be referred to any of the varieties distin- 

 guished by Koch. It is further to be remarked, that its pe- 

 culiarities do not depend on the dry sandy nature of its lo- 

 cality, for with it, the ordinary [)lant grows profusely, nor do 

 they ever intermingle their characters. 



The foregoing is but an imperfect summary of the transac- 

 tions of the Club for the past year, and I have to regret that 

 other duties, occupying a large portion of my time, have pre- 

 vented me from attending our meetings so regularly as I could 

 have desired. It will, I trust, readily be believed and admitted, 

 that I entertain the same sentiments respecting the pleasure 

 and gratification afforded to all our members who are so for- 

 tunate as to be able to attend our meetings with greater re- 



