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peduncle. The lowest clusters are female flowers ; tlio highest 

 clusters are male flowers, iiefween these two sets of clusters 

 there are very often a few clusters in whirh the ovary is ahoufc 

 half the length of the whole liower; these are prohably not truly 

 hermaphrodite, but neuter. 



The ovaries of the female flowers become the banana-fruit ; 

 those of the neuter flowers grow into small worthless fruit. The 

 male flowers and bracts are deciduous, and the peduncle continues 

 to lengthen and produce male flowers until the fruit is cut. 



Dr. iS'i'APF commented on these exhibitions. 



Mrs. LoxGSTAFF showed a specimen of Brassia caudata, Lindl., 

 in flower, from Jamaica, uhich was followed by remarks from 

 Mr. W. Fawcett and the Chairman. 



Sir Fr.v>'k Crisp exhibited on behalf of Mr. William Monnis 

 a monstrous proliferation of a Foxglove, in which the terminal 

 flower had attained an extraordinary development. 



Mrs. Steubing, F.L.S., also showed a very small monstrosity in 

 the same species. 



Tliese exhibits were discussed by the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 

 Dr. Longstaff (visitor), Miss May Eathbone, and the Chairman. 



ABSTRACTS. 



Alien Plants introduced into the Tweed District with Foreign 

 Wool. By Ida M. Hayward, F.L.S. 



[Read Ist December, 1910.] 



The subject to which I propose briefly to direct the attention of 

 this meeting is the Alien Plants of the Tweed district. 



Those shown are a selection out of about 200 alien ])lants which 

 I collected on the banks of the river Tweed and its tributary the 

 G-ala in the course of the last three or four years. Three of them 

 were gathered when acconipariied by ^Ir. James Fraser of Edin- 

 burgh, and two of them when accompanied by Mr. Claridge Druce 

 of Oxford. 



It is, however, proper to add that reference has been made 

 to the major portion of them in the course of tlie present and 

 past year in the ' Annals of Scottish Natural History' and the 

 Botanical Exchange Club Report of the British Isles. 



Tlie reason of the plants beiug found on the banks of the Tweed 

 and (iala is interesting. The sta])le industry in that localiry is 

 the manufacture of wool into cloth. The wool is brought from 



