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Society's meeting on the 3rd August, 1880: — Potentilla alpestris, 

 Saxi/raga nivalis, Juncus biglumis, Phleum alpinum, Avena alpina, 

 Pohjpodium alpestre, Gymnostomum squarrosinn, Encalypta ciliata, 

 Racomitrium heterosticlmm, var. gracilescens , Polytvichum striatum, 

 Hyjpnum striatum, H. sarmentosum. 



Mr. Thomas King exhibited a series of flowering plants from 

 North Queensferry, and of fungi from Bishopbriggs ; also a speci- 

 men of Anacharis aJsinastrum bearing male flowers, collected by 

 Mr. R. Turner in a pond at the foot of the Braid Hills, near Edin- 

 burgh, the only know r n station for the male form in Britain. It 

 was discovered in this pond (the first record of its occurrence in 

 Britain) by Mr. David Douglas, of Edinburgh, in the summer of 

 1880. 



Other specimens, plants and insects, were exhibited by Mr. 

 Renwick, Mr. Noble and Mr. Cameron. 



30th August, 1881. 



Mr. Peter Cameron in the Chair. 



Mr. Richard M'Kay gave an account of the excursion to Ben 

 Voirlich on the 27th instant, and exhibited Polytrichum striatum 

 (in fruit) collected on the mountain. 



Mr. M. C. Duff exhibited a beautiful specimen of the rare fern, 

 Woodsia hyperborea, from a locality in the Breadalbane mountains, 

 where he had found it rather plentiful. 



Mr. Peter Ewing exhibited Pidicaria dysenterica and Carlina 

 vulgaris from the Struey Rocks, Arran. 



13th September, 1881. 



Mr. Alex. Noble in the Chair. 



Dr. James Stirton, F.L.S., exhibited a series of lichens of the 

 genus Umbilicaria, some of them collected at Loch Coruisk, Skye. 

 Mr. Thomas King exhibited the curious fungi, Spathidaria flavida 

 and Torrubia militaris, from Mull. 



Mr. R. Kidston read a paper " On the Flora of Schiehallion 

 and the neighbourhood of Tummel Bridge." Generalizing from 

 the results of the trip, the district cannot be said to be rich in rare 



