248 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Hen-and-Chicken Daisy and like deviations, vivi- 

 parous development, the formation of bulbs instead 

 of seed and on the stems or in the axils of leaves,, 

 are also described. 



Colour variation forms one of the subjects of hi& 

 observation and research, and he gives several list* 

 of plants that "run" from one colour to another. 



He concludes his work by an account of some of 

 the anomalies in fruits, and treats of their manifold 

 variation in form, flavour, colour and perfume, as- 

 well as of their becoming double, having neither 

 stone nor kernel, and the like. 



This is only a very imperfect sketch of the first 

 book in the English language wholly confined ta 

 teratological questions; but it may serve to give 

 some idea of its merit as a forerunner of the 

 advanced knowledge of to-day. 



I have already incidentally referred to Hopkirk'& 

 connection with the Royal Botanic Garden of 

 Glasgow. To him is luidoubtedly due the credit of 

 being Founder of the Institution. His enthusiasm 

 secured for the city this boon of blossom and 

 greenery, which may have served to sweeten the 

 weary round of many a life, and to relieve some- 

 what the monotony of the grimy environment. 

 For nearly seventy years the Institution has main- 

 tained garden-grounds and conservatories, often 

 under many difficulties ; and everyone who is 

 interested in j)lant life or takes any delight in 

 the beauties of vegetation must earnestly desire 

 that whatever changes may come, such agreeable 

 places of recreation and instruction shall never be 

 numbered with the past things of the city. The 

 public parks of our day are the outcome of a- 

 popular movement after pleasant places of resort, 

 and Hopkirk's ideas were happy anticipations of 

 the si:)irit of this later time. He Avas the first about 

 Glasgow who succeeded in giving jiractical effect to 

 such a movement. As the municipal authorities 

 had not then advanced to the conception of such 



