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white and yellow at the base, everywhere glabrous, striated; inner pe- 

 tals (14 inch long, 5 lines broad) white, yellow at the base, ciliated at the 

 claws, everywhere else glabrous, striated with faint diverging lines, the 

 middle rib being green. Stamens alternately longer, all about half as 

 long as the petals, yellow ; filament subulate, flattened, broadest above 

 the base, and there hairy on the outside, narrower and nearly colourless 

 below ; anthers oblong, erect, nearly equal in length to the shorter fila- 

 ments ; pollen yellow, granules oblong. Pistil scarcely exceeding in 

 length the shorter filaments, 3-sided, pyramidal ; stigma of 3 obscure 

 lobes. Ovules numerous, imbricated. 

 This species flowered in the beginning of April in the interesting collection 

 of bulbous-rooted plants at Carlowrie, the seat of David Falconar, Esq. 

 liCdebour notices its near relationship to Tulipa hiflora, and 1 confess 

 that, had it not been for his authority, the native specimens which I 

 have from himself and from Dr Fischer, with the cultivated specimen 

 before me, and the native specimens of T. bijlora which I owe to Dr 

 Fischer, and those cultivated in the Botanic Garden in 1828, might have 

 left me in doubt whether they should be considered more than varieties. 

 Among my own specimens, the distinction seems to rest chiefly on all 

 the parts of the flower in T. hiflora being smaller, the petals less pointed, 

 and the outer more nearly equal to the inner in breadth, and rather 

 longer than them. I have no means of judging as to the ripe fruit ; 

 the germen seems alike in the two. Tulipa tricolor is a native of dry 

 stony places on the sides of the Altai mountains. T. hiflora is from As- 

 trachan. 



Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 



1835, Nov 21. — At this meeting (being the first of the twenty- 

 ninth session) the following gentlemen were elected Office-bearers 

 of the Society for the year 1836. 



President. 

 Robert Jameson, Esq. F.R.S.L. &E., Professor of Natural History in the 

 University of Edinburgh. 

 Vice' P residents. 

 Sir Patbick Walker, F.L.S. Dr T. S. Traill, F.R.S.E. 



BiNDON Blood, Esq. F.R.S.E. Robert Stevekson, Esq. F.R.S.E* 



Secretary Dr Pat. Neill, F.R.S.E. Assist. Sec^T. J. Torrie, F.R S.K 



Treasurer. — A. G. Ellis, Esq. 

 Librarian.— James Wilsok, Esq. F.R.S.E. 

 Painter. — P. Syme, Esq. Assistant.— W. H. Townsend, Esq. 



Council. 

 Dr John Coldstream. Dr R. K. Greville, F.R.S.E. 



David Falconar, Esq. John Sligo, Esq. F.R.S.E. 



James Young, Esq. Dr Walter Adam, F.R.C.P. 



William Copland, Esq. F.R.S.E. Dr William Macdonald, F.R.S.E. 



Sir Patrick Walker, V. P., in the Chair. Mr James Wil- 

 son read Mr P. J. Selby's Account of the Animals inhabiting the 



