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Mr. Boyd also exhibited specimens of Arena 25?<?>escen.s, L., 

 from the same district, and remarked, that although found in 

 abundance at Portincross, and also at Seamill, where the speci- 

 mens exhibited had been gathered, the plant is very local in 

 the western counties of Scotland. It is described in Mr. 

 Kennedy's Clydesdale Flora as "very rare," and only two 

 Clvdesdale stations are there recorded for it. 



31sT July, 1883. 



Mr. Peter Cameron in the Chair. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd reported that on 5th inst. the members of 

 the Society had visited the Royal Botanic Gardens by permis- 

 sion of the Directors, when they were conducted through the 

 Ijlant houses by Mr. Robert Bullen, Curator of the Gardens, 

 and by Professor Bayley Balfour, M.D., D.Sc, who kindly 

 pointed out and described many of the rarer exotics. 



Mr. John Broom reported on an excursion which had been 

 made to Millport on 28th inst. 



Mr. R. Turner submitted the following list of plants observed 

 on the Lesser Cumbrae in the course of a few hours' botanizing 

 on that island on the same date, viz. : 



Ranunculus acris. 

 Caltha ijalustris. 

 Glaucium luteum. 

 Silene niariUma. 

 Lyclinls dioica. 

 L. Flos-cuculi. 

 Stellar la graminea, 

 Erodium cicittarunn. 

 Agrimonla Eupatoria. 

 Poientilla anserina. 

 Rihcs Grossularia. 

 Sediun anglicuni. 

 Cotyledon Umbilicus. 

 Parnassia palusiris. 

 Ca nun verticillatwjn. 

 Coniuui onaculatum. 

 Galhiin palustre^ var. 



Withernngii. 

 G. Aparine. 

 Cniciis lanceolatus. 

 C. x>alustris. 

 C. arverisis. 

 Arctium Lapjpa. 

 Bellis perennis. 



Campanula rotundifolia. 

 Solanum Dulcamara. 

 Digitalis purpurea. 

 Veronica Chamcedrys, 

 Euphrasia officinalis. 

 Prunella vulgaris. 

 Scutellaria galericulata. 

 Teucrium Scorodonia. 

 3Iyosotis arvensis. 

 M. versicolor. 

 Dycopsis arvensis. 

 Urtica dioica. 

 U. urens. 

 IHs Pseudacorus. 

 Jxtncus communis. 

 J. glaucus. 

 J. maritimus. 

 J. bufonius. 

 Pteris aquilina. 

 Blechnum spicant. 

 Asplenium Adiantum- 



nigrum. 

 A. TricJionuines. 

 Coprinus atramentarius. 



'Mv. M. C. Duff gave an account of a recent visit to the Clova 

 district, and exhibited fresh specimens of Lychnis alpina, L., 

 gathered on Little Kilrannoch, and other rare alpine plants. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd exhibited specimens of Carex llmosa, L., 



