94 TRANSACTIONS, NATIJRAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



"The British Association Handbook, 1901, does not give C. 

 Epilinum at all, but gives ' C. Epithymum, Ayr, G, Hooker ; 

 K, Duncan.' 



" ' G ' would include Hamilton, New Monkland, Chryston, 

 Kilsyth ; ' K ' would include the neighbourhood of Ayr and as 

 far north as Prestwick, but not Troon, which is in ' F ' as is also 

 the ' Experimental Farm.' Lamlash is' in ' E.' " 



On behalf of Mr. Andrew Gilchrist, Mr. Alex. Somerville, 

 B.Sc, F.L.S., exhibited a fresh specimen of the Blue Pimpernel, 

 Anagallis caerulea, Schreber (fide Mr. Arthur Bennet, F.L.S.), 

 found growing as a casual at Darvel, Ayrshire. 



On behalf of Mr. E. W. Hunnybun, Huntingdon, and of Mr. 

 Arthur Smith, F.L.S., Grimsby, the President exhibited dried 

 specimens of the Scarlet Horned Poppy, Glaucium phoeniceum, 

 Curtis, grown this year at Grimsby and Huntingdon, at the 

 latter place from seed collected in Jersey by Mr. J. Piquet. 

 The plant occurs throughout Southern Europe, but in Britain 

 must be looked on as an alien. 



Mr. Alexander Gray, Curator, Millport Station, showed an 

 enlarged figure of a minute and rare calcareous sponge, 

 Leucoselenia lacunosa, Bowerbank {— Grantia lacunosa, John- 

 ston), dredged in 25 fathoms' water, on hard ground, between 

 Lochranza and Skipness, attached to the test of Ascidia 

 mentula, O.F.M. The species had not previously been recorded 

 from the Clyde Estuary. 



Mr. William Stewart exhibited a collection of fresh Fungi, 

 sent to him from Glen Urquhart, and offered remarks regarding 

 these. 



28th October, 1902. 



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

 This being the Fifty-first Annual General Meeting of the 

 Society, the Secretary read the 



Report of the Council (1901-1902). 



Meetings. — Eleven Ordinary Meetings were held during the 



session, but it is to be regretted that the attendance was rather 



below the average. A conversazione to commemorate the 



Jubilee of the Society was held in December; this was very 



