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Mr. 8. M. Weliwood (Hon. Secretary), on behali of the Glasgow 
_ Eastern Botanical Society, whose affairs are now wound up, 
presented to the Society Zhe Royal Natwral History (Lydekker) 
and other works, including an edition of Hennedy’s The Clydes- 
dale Flora, which Mr. James Mitchell (Hon. Librarian), in 
acknowledging the gift, stated completed the Society’s set of all 
the editions of this standard work on the botany of Clydesdale. 
Mr. Peter Ewing, F.L.S., Vice-President, showed a series of 
Alpine Carices, including Carex chordorrhiza, Linn., from a deep 
sphagnum-bog at Altnaharra, in West Sutherland, growing “in 
just such places as produce C. /imosa.” Mr. Ewing stated this to 
be one of the most interesting botanical discoveries in recent years. 
The plant is very distinct in appearance, he said, and could not 
readily be passed over as being any other species. 
Mr. Ewing also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Andrew Gilchrist, 
Darvel, Juniperus communis, Linn., from Pogiven Burn, Loudoun, 
and Lithospermum arvense, Linn., and Scandia Pecten-Veneris, 
Linn., from Doonfoot, Alloway. 
The Chairman and Col. J. 8. Stirling exhibited the following 
plants from Stirlingshire :—Sambucus Hbulus, Linn., Hrigeron 
canadense, Linn., Lpilobiwm rosewm, Schreb., Salvia Verbenaca, 
Linn., Rumex maritimus, Linn., R. sanguineus, Linn., Medicago 
falcata, Linn., M. maculata, Sibth., Reseda lutea, Linn., Carex 
paludosa, Good., Linaria LElatine, Mill., Senebiera didyma, 
Persoon, Polycarpon tetraphyllum, Linn. 
Mr. R. D. Wilkie exhibited the Ringed Snake (7Z’ropidonotus 
_- natrix, Gesn.), and the following mosses, Grimmia patens, B. &S., 
Fontinalis antipyretica, Linn., in fruit, and Hypnum ochraceuwm, 
Turn., from Glengarnock ; also Tortula papillosa, Wils., from Lee 
Castle, Braidwood. 
Mr. James Mitchell exhibited the Skin of the Silver Jackal 
(Canis mesomelas) from the Orange Free State. 
Mr. R. 8. Wishart, M.A., read a paper entitled “‘ Notes on two 
examples of induced abnormal growth in stems—(1)A Scythe-stone 
: embedded in a Beech ; (3) Cork-serewing in an Ash.” 
28TH June, 1898. 
Mr. Peter Ewing, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair, 
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