282 Miscellaneous Contributions and 



!Mr A. Taylor read " A note on Sanseviera longifoJia" plants of 

 which had been raised from seeds sent to the Edinbmgh Botanic 

 Garden by Mr John Buchanan of Blantyre, East Africa. 



" Exhibition of Photographs of Botanical interest taken during 

 the voyage of H.M.'s exploring Ship ' Challenger,' " by Hugh 

 Cleghom, M.D., LL.D. 



Mr ]SIark King exhibited a double-spathed variety of Richardia 

 mthiopica. 



May 14. 



Mr Lindsay read a note from Mr M. Dunn, Dalkeith Palace 

 Gardens, on temperature and progress of vegetation in that locality, 

 at the same time exhibiting a fine specimen of the Morell {Morchdla 

 escuJenta) from that gentleman. 



Dr Foulis exhibited a new lantern arrangement for demonstrat- 

 ing botanical microscopic objects. 



A white variety of Gentiana verna was exhibited by Professor 

 Dickson, found by him in Teesdale, while with the Scottish Alpine 

 Botanical Club, 



June 11. 



Mr A. Taylor read a note on the Prairie grasses of Manitoba, 

 and exhibited specimens of these presented to the Herbarium by 

 Mr L. Bonny, "\Vinnipeg. The names of these, as determined by 

 Dr "W. Watson, are — Calamagrostis canadensis, Alra ca^spitosa, 

 Triticum canumm, Elymus striatus, GJyceria poa. 



Dr Buchanan White sent the following note : — 



" I wish to exhibit, on behaK of !Mr James Brebner, of Dundee, 

 Fellow of the Society, the accompanying specimens of a plant 

 which he gathered in the neighbourhood of Loch Tummel, 

 Perthshire, in July last, and which I have recently identified as 

 ScTicenus ferrugineiis, C, a species which has not hitherto been 

 recorded as British. >S'. ferrvgineiis can be readily distinguished 

 from the allied S. nigricans by being smaller in all its parts, by 

 the shorter and more erect lower bract, fewer spikelets (usually 

 two, but often only one), and glumes smooth or almost smooth on 

 the back. From its European distribution it was not unlikely to 

 occur in Britain, and will probably occur elsewhere in Scotland if 

 looked for." 



Professor Babington sent a note correcting an error in the last 

 Part of the Transactions, where !Mr Evans is stated to have 

 exhibited " Viola siagnina, new to Britain" (p. 165, line 14). 

 Professor Babington states — " It was given by me as a British plant 

 in the Manual, 3rd ed., p. 36, 1851. I gathered it in Bottisham 

 Fen in 1829, but we then confounded it with V. ladea (Sm.), our 

 present V. canina y8 laiicifolia. Henslow published it under the 

 name of V. ladea, in his Catalogue of British Plants, 2nd ed., 

 1835, as a native of Cambridgeshire." 



Mr Dunn, Dalkeith Palace Gardens, exhibited a bi-anch of 



