466 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
On behalf of Mr. James W. White, Mr. Scott Elliot exhibited 
Stachys alpina, Linn. According to Mr. White’s notes, this was 
not known to be a British plant until the summer of 1897, when 
it was discovered by Mr. Cedric Bucknall (Jowrnal of Botany, 
XXXV., p. 380). The plant occurs on some southern spurs of the 
Cotswold Hills, about 12 miles north of Bristol, at an elevation of 
from 550 to 650 feet, and is associated with many of the species 
that accompany it at its stations on the Continent—viz., Pyrus 
Aria, Sm., Valeriana Mikanii, (Wats.), Campanula glomerata, 
Linn., Stachys sylvatica, Linn., Polygonatwm officinale, All., and 
Convallaria majalis, Linn. The Gloucestershire locality is, for 
the most part, elevated woodland upon Oolite covering the Upper 
Lias sands. The plant is thinly scattered in clumps through the 
more open portions of the woods, and along the borders, evidently 
preferring the sunniest and most sheltered positions. It occurs 
also in thickets below the woodland, and abundantly on hedge- 
banks for a considerable distance, the total area being about two 
square miles. The English plant, according to Mr. White, is 
taller and more robust than any Continental specimens that he 
had seen, and larger in all its parts than the other British species. 
Stem erect, stiff, 24 to 3 feet high. Lowest leaves cordate-oval 
on long stalks, upper ones sessile, floral leaves large, straight- 
sided, gradually increasing in size from the terminal tuft down- 
ward, dark bronze or purplish-green, very hairy and velvety on 
both surfaces. Corolla larger and broader than in Stachys 
sylvatica, purplish, blotched with orange and white, woolly out- 
side, and having a ring of oblique hairs within the tube. Whole 
plant dark in hue, hairy and velvety throughout, and rather 
glandular towards the top. It flowers at the beginning of July. 
Mr. Oswald Fergus, D.D.S., exhibited some abnormalities in the 
Dandelion, Greengage, and Walnut, and fracture and true union 
of bones in Grouse, Partridge, and Pheasant, and anchylosis in 
long bones of last-named. Messrs. 8S. M. Wellwood and G. F. 
Scott Elliot, M.A., B.Sc., etc. referred to the frequency of 
double-headed flowers in the Dandelion, and the Composite 
generally. Mr James Jack exhibited a double-headed flower of 
Chrysanthemum maximum, Ramond. 
Mr. Chas. Kirk exhibited an albino Hedge-sparrow (Accentor 
modularis (Linn.) ), from Uddingston, 

