Mr John Sadler. 15 



bereJ l>y those who knew hitn. Every member of this 

 Society counted him a friend. Genial and good-natured, 

 with a keen sense of liumour, his society was welcome 

 everywhere, and no company could be dull of which he 

 was one. Who that has climbed an Alpine crag with him 

 will ever forget the humorous accounts of his adventures 

 with which he relieved the ditficulties and monotony of the 

 ascent; or who that has enjoyed an evening with him, at 

 say a meeting of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club of 

 which he was one of the founders, in some Highland inn, 

 will not remember his outflowing spirits and his stories 

 told with all the gusto of real appreciation ? To his inti- 

 mates he was always the same warm-hearted open friend, 

 and his death, unexpected and sudden, which took place on 

 the 9th December last, has removed in his prime one who 

 will long be remembered by all of us who knew him as a 

 true friend and genial companion. 



Note on Rubus Idfeus var. Leesii, and Notice of some 

 Plants from Inverness-shire. By Dr Mactier. St 

 Andrews. Communicated by Dr Cleghorn. 



(Read 9tli November 1882.) 



I beg to bring to the notice of the Botanical Society 

 that the Ruhus Idceiis, var. Leesii of Babington, has been 

 found in this neighbourhood. I know^ of no record of its 

 being previously noted in Scotland, Neither Babington 

 nor Hooker mention it as growing in the north ; and the 

 former, in one of the earlier editions of his Manual, gives 

 only two or three English stations. I found it in full 

 flower in June, three or four miles south of St An- 

 drews, growing in a thicket of common raspberry and 

 bramble. Six or eight plants were noted, but others 

 would probably have been found had a closer search been 

 made. Hs numerous flowers, together with the many 

 small, roundish, simple leaves, and the grey colour of their 

 under-surfaces, were in such marked contrast in the com- 

 mon form of Rubus Idanis that it could hardly be over- 

 looked. Indeed, the fi.rst plant I found (in an isolated 

 position) was so utterly unlike anything I had before seen, 



