PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 145 
SUMMER SESSION, 1893. 
23np May, 1893. 
Mr. R. 8. Wishart, M.A., Vice-President, in the chair. 
Mr. John Cairns, Jun., Secretary, submitted reports on recent 
excursions to Dalzell, Botanic Gardens, and Edinbarnet. (See 
pp. 101, 103, 106.) 
Mr. Peter Ewing exhibited a large and interesting collection of 
British flowering-plants belonging to the natural order Ranun- 
culacee, and pointed out the distinctive characteristics of the less 
common species. 
Mr. L. Watt showed specimens of the following plants :— 
Caltha palustris, Linn., var. minor, Syme.—Kilpatrick Hills, 
north side. 
Barbarea stricta, Andrz.—Railway bank, Craigendoran. 
Cochlearia anglica, Linn, var. Hortii, Syme.—Side of River 
Clyde, Dalmuir. 
Erysimum cheiranthoides, Linn.—Railway bank, Cardross. 
Potentilla norvegica, Linn.—Railway bank, Rutherglen. 
Carex dioica, Linn.—Kiipatrick Hills. 
C. Boenninghauseniana, Weihe.—Loch at Culzean Castle. 
Mr. D. A. Boyd exhibited specimens of Honesty (Lunaria 
biennis, DC.) bearing unripe seed-pods. These, when immature, 
are so thin as to be translucent, and enable the peculiar mode of 
placentation to be distinctly seen when the pod is held between 
the eye and the light. 
He also showed an abnormal raceme of flowers of Scilla 
nutans, Sm., which illustrated the teratological condition known 
as phyllody. In this specimen the floral bracts were greatly 
developed, and partly transformed into green leaves. 
Mr. Boyd also submitted specimens of Cnicus arvensis, Hoffm., 
having the lower surface of their leaves covered with the fragrant 
pale-yellow spermogonia of Puccinia suaveolens (Pers.) Winter. 
The fungus is common at this stage in early summer, and is 
remarkable for its powerful odour of honey, which, as Mr. 
Plowright has pointed out, very closely resembles the perfume 
