PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 265 



Proceedings of the Society. 



SESSION 1900-1901. 



24th September, 1900. 



Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Mr. D. R. Somerville read a report of the Society's excursion 

 to Camis Eskan (see page 251). 



Mr. Wm. Stewart reported on an excursion to Douglas 

 Support, and recorded having found twelve species of fungi (see 

 page 253). 



Mr. Thos. Beath Henderson, M.D., 55 Bath Street, was 

 elected an Ordinary Member. 



Mr. John Cairns, Jun., exhibited a fertile cone of Araucaria 

 imbricata, Pav., from Buchanan Castle, Drymen. 



On behalf of Mr. R. D. O'Brien, Limerick, the President 

 exhibited fresh specimens of Scirpus triqueter, L., a rare bulrush, 

 new to the Irish flora, which Mr. O'Brien, in company with Mr. 

 R. Lloyd Praeger, M.R.I. A., had discovered last month on the 

 muddy banks of the Shannon, near Limerick. The peculiarities 

 of the plant were referred to, and comparisons instituted between 

 the lake and the sea Scirpus dried specimens of which were also 

 shown. 



Mr. Johnstone Shearer exhibited a large and interesting 

 collection of plants from Tor Bay, Devonshire. 



Mr. Wm. Stewart reported on the Conference at Boat of Garten, 

 from the 17th to the 21st September, of the British Mycological 

 and the Scottish Cryptogamic Societies. He recorded the 

 discovery of Gyrodon sistotrema, Fr., a species new to the British 

 flora. He remarked that the special feature of the Rothiemurchus 

 locality was the abundance and variety of the genera Hydnum 

 and Cortinarius. Of the former, eleven species were found — 

 four being rare, viz., H. imbricatum, L., H. fragile, Fr., H. 

 compaction, Pers., and H. zonatum, Batsch. Of the latter, 25 

 species were identified, many of them unrecorded for the Clyde 

 area, and several of them uncommon in the Rothiemurchus 

 district, such as C. cyanopus, Fr., C. multiformis, Fr., C. varius, 



