102 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



B. ik S. 3 Sivartzia montaua, Lindl. (on roadside at Ardarroch) ; 

 Fiist>ide7is adiantoides, Hedw. ; Grimmia maritima, Turn. ; 

 Zygodoit JIuugeotii, B. and S. ; Breuieiia arcuata, Schp. (fertile) 

 Uypnum exannulatum, triimb. 



Proceedings of the Society. 



SESSION 1905-1906. 



26th September, 1905, 



Mr. Peter Ewing, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



A report on an excursion to West Kilbride and Fairlie (p. 86) 

 was read. 



Mr. J. Bruce Hunter exhibited a specimen of the Globe Fish, 

 {Gynmodontes ieiraodon, Linn.) from Port Said. Mr. Robert 

 Garry, B.Sc, exhibited under the microscope the following 

 algse, viz. : — Zygncema stellinum, Vauch., in Zygospore, from Glen 

 Rosa, Arran, and (Edogonium (sp. 1) from Dairy and Balgray 

 Dam. Mr. Garry also exhibited many microphotographs of the 

 structure of these algse. 



Mr. R. S. Wishart, M.A., exhibited and described from Crail 

 Astragalus hypoglottis, Linn. ; Thalictrum minus, Linn. ; 

 Geranium sanguineum, Linn. ; Ligusticum scoticum, Linn. ; 

 Caucalis nodosa, Scop. ; Agrimonia odorata, Mill., &c. 



Mr. Peter Ewing exhibited a number of alpine plants from the 

 mountains round Killin. 



Mr. R. Buchanan showed a series of the young of the 

 commoner species of CharadriidiB in down. 



Mr. Wishart exhibited the Magpie Moth in its different stages, 

 and gave an account of the destruction done by this species on 

 the shrubs in his garden at Stepps, and of the ineifective attempts 

 he had made to stay its ravages. 



Mr. A. Patience read a paper on " The genus Idothea " (p. 42). 



