138 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
the hardiest member of its genus, and it is much better adapted 
for outdoor cultivation than the Blue Gum Tree (Lucalyptus 
globulus, Labill.). 
297TH DercEMBER, 1896, 
Mr. Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., President, in the chair. 
A portrait of the late President, Professor Thomas King, to be 
placed in the Council Room, was exhibited, and a letter was read 
from Mrs, Ritchie, Professor King’s sister, acknowledging receipt 
of a duplicate copy of the portrait which the Society had pre- 
sented to her. 
The following were elected as Ordinary Members of the 
Society:—Messrs. John Alexander, 18 St. Enoch Square ; George 
Herriot, 29 Lacrosse Terrace, Hillhead ; James Horn, 591 Great 
Eastern Road; Miss Sophia B. Robbie, 9 Argyle Terrace, Kirn. 
Mr. James M‘Andrew, Corresponding Member, sent for exhibi- 
tion @dipodium Griffithii, Schweg, from Bennan Hill, New 
Galloway, and Hedwigia ciliata, Ehrh., var. striata, Wils., from 
Greenan Holm, New Galloway. 
Mr. R. D. Wilkie exhibited Amblystegium Sprucei, B. & §., 
from the Falls of Clyde. Mr. Wilkie also exhibited a handsome 
species of Lousewort (Pedicularis Sceptrum-Carolinum, Linn.), 
from Vadso, Lapland, and some Norwegian Mosses, all from Mr, 
W. E. Nicholson, Lewes. Mr. Nicholson also sent for exhibition 
Manomitrium tenerum, Lindb., a rare British moss from Ash- 
down, Sussex. This minute moss was first recorded as a British 
species from Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, in 1854, and has not since 
been found in any other British locality until discovered by Mr. 
Nicholson in the same county in September this year. Paludella 
sguarrosa, Brid., another of the mosses exhibited by Mr. Wilkie, 
is the only member of a distinct genus. Formerly found in 
Britain in two localities, viz., at Terrington Carr, Yorkshire, and 
Knutsford Moor, Cheshire, it has now disappeared from both, 
owing to changes in the ground through drainage, and its claim 
to rank as a British moss at the present day is very slender. It 
is common in Scandinavia and in North America. 
Colonel J. 8. Stirling and the Chairman exhibited a collection 
of Stirlingshire Sphagnacez, as follows, viz.:—Sphagnum Austini, 

