Ix PROCEEDINGS OK THE 



Low, M.A., David Pearson, Robert H. Read, C.E., M.B.O.U., 

 Peter Ewing, Johnston Shearer, and Christopher Sherry, 



Messrs. Thomas G. Bishop and Duncan Mackenzie were 

 elected Auditors for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Robert Edgar, M.A., 4 Kelvingrove Street, was elected 

 an Ordinary Member. 



]Mr. William Gibson, 58 Taylor Street, was elected an Associate. 



Professor Thomas King reported on an Excursion made to 

 Killermonton ith inst. Typha laiifoUa, L., was observed growing 

 in the River Kelvin, and forty species of Fungi, including 

 Agaricus (Pleurotus) septicus, Fr., and Leotia lubrica, Pers., 

 ■were collected in the woods. 



Mr. James J. F. X. King, F.E.S., exhibited a specimen of 

 3IecostethvLS grossus, L., from Killarney. He stated that this 

 Grasshopper, which is found in marshy places, has occurred in 

 the Counties of Noi'folk and Kerry, and that there are several 

 examples in the British and Dublin Museums. 



Professor Thomas King showed specimens of Catahrosa 

 ciquatica, Beauv., found near Kilmalcolm by Mr. John 

 Thomson, Farmer, Dennistoun ; and he remarked that although 

 the typical grass is apparently very rare in Clydesdale, the 

 variety litioralis, Parn., is common on the sandy shores of the 

 Firth. Examples of var. liitoralis, gathered in Arran, were 

 exhibited by the Chairman (Mr. Somerville). 



Professor King also submitted a specimen of Trametes pint, 

 Fr., obtained on living trees of Pi)iiis st/lvestris at Rothie- 

 murchus during the recent visit of the Cryptogamic Society of 

 Scotland to that district. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd showed examples of Uredo Lynchii (B. and Br.) 

 Plow., a Fungus originally described from specimens obtained 

 on living leaves of an exotic orchid {Sjjiranthes) in Kew Gardens, 

 but not hitherto recorded for Scotland. It is interesting to 

 notice that this parasite has been detected by Mr. George Russell 

 on Spii-anthes in greenhouses at Redlands, Kelvinside, and speci- 

 mens have been submitted to Dr. M. C. Cooke for identification. 



Mr. Boyd also showed specimens of Glceosporium affine, Sacc, 

 found on dead leaves of Soya and ^schynantluis at Redlands, 

 and pronounced by Dr. Cooke to be new to Britain. 



2oTH November, 1890. 



Mr. William Stewart, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Dr. M. C. Cooke, A.L.S., 146 Junction Road, Upper HoUoway, 

 London, N., was elected an Honorary Member. 



Messrs. John E. Carlyle, 73 Langside Road, Crossbill ; A. F. 

 Johnston, 43 Buccleuch Street ; and John Lang, 5 Frederick 

 Lane, were elected Ordinary Members. 



