384 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
three years. One of the Vice-Presidents and four Councillors 
shall retire annually by rotation.” Section 2—after “ Treasurer” 
read “Librarian nor Editor of Transactions.” Chapter X.— 
delete words “and in the Proceedings of the Society.” After 
Chapter XII., interpolate, as a new chapter, headed “ Editor of 
Transactions,” “The Editor shall attend to the preparation of the 
material for the Society’s Proceedings and Transactions.” Chapter 
XX., Section 2, to read—‘‘ A Publishing Committee, of which the 
Editor shall be Convener, shall be elected annually by the Council, 
and shall decide,” &c. 
Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc., F.L.S., exhibited the Narrow-bordered 
Bee Hawk-moth (Macroglossa bombyliformis, Ach.), from Glen 
Lonan, near Oban, and communicated some notes regarding its 
habits and distribution. 
Mr. Daniel Dewar exhibited, from the Botanic Gardens, Vitis 
pterophora, Baker, an extremely handsome Brazilian vine, which is 
chiefly remarkable for its great size and the peculiar mode by 
which its vegetative propagation is effected. Towards the close 
of the season of active growth the subterminal internodes of the 
long, dependent branches swell up, forming large tubers 8 or 9 
inches long, which in the course of time are constricted at the 
nodes and fall to the ground, where under suitable conditions 
they give rise to new plants; Bahmeria nivea, Gaudich., an 
urticaceous plant from China and Japan, the strong bast-fibres 
of which are used for weaving the material known in England as 
grass-cloth; Faydenia prolifera, Hook., a West Indian fern; 
Lycopodium phlegmaria, Linn., a large New Zealand club-moss ; 
and Pilocereus senilis, Lem., the Old Man Cactus, from Mexico. 
All the above plants were suitably described by Mr. Dewar. 
Mr. P. Ewing, F.L.S., exhibited Aquilegia alpina, Linn., from 
Canlochan, Forfarshire, where he had gathered it in July, 1895. 
Although without doubt an introduction, it was difficult, Mr. Ewing 
stated, to understand by what agency this rare species, a native of 
the Swiss and Italian Alps, could have been introduced into the 
almost inaccessible spot where several plants were found growing 
vigorously. Mr. Ewing also exhibited a complete series of mounted 
specimens of the British Sphagnacee, as described by Dr. Braith- 
waite in his work on “The Sphagnacez or Peat-Mosses of Europe 
and North America.” 
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