CONTENTS. 



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Introductory Address by the President, Professor Dickson 301 



Obituary Notice of William Benjamin Carpenter, C.B., M.D., LL.D., 

 F.R.S. By Andrew Taylor 303 



Obituary Notice of Edmond Boissier 308 



„ „ Dunbar James Douglas 309 



„ ,. Alexander Croall 309 



„ „ William Wilson Evans 311 



„ James Welsh 312 



„ „ James F. Robinson 313 



On Calamagrostis stngosa (Hartmann) as a British Plant, and two 

 Carex Forms new to Scotland, &c. By A. Bennett, F.L.S., 

 Croydon 313 



A Forest Tour in Provence and the Cevennes. By Major F. 

 Bailey, R.E. (With Map) 317 



On the Fertilisation of Ejnpactis latifolia. By A. D. Webster, 



Llandegai, Penrhyn 347 



Report on the Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to 

 Killin and Loch Awe in 1885. By William Craig, M.D., 

 F.R.C.S.Ed., F.R.S.E 352 



On the Growth and Fertilisation of Cypripedium Calceolus. By A. 



D. Webster, Llandegai, Penrhyn 357 



Carex helrola, Blytt, in Scotland. By Arthur Bennett, F.L.S 361 



On a Method of Transmitting Living Plants Abroad. By Robert 



Lindsay, Curator, Royal Botanic Garden 363 



On the Adaptation of Albuca conjmbosa, Baker, and Albuca junci- 

 folia, Baker, to Insect Fertilisation. Bv John Wilson, Univer- 

 sity of St Andrews. (Plate XIL) \ 365 



On certain Properties of Rosewood and some other Hard Woods. 



By A. Galletly, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh 371 



The Inflorescence, Floral Structure, and Fertilisation of (ScropAw/aria 

 aquatica and S. nodosa. By T. Wemyss Fulton, M.B., CM., 

 (Plate XIII.) 379 



Report of Half-Hardy Plants Growing on the East Coast of Arran. 



By the Rev. D. Landsborough, Kilmarnock 390 



The Marine Algae of Joppa, in the County of Mid-Lothian. By 

 George Wm. Traill 395 



Report on Temperatures and Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from July 1885 to June 1886. 

 By Robert Lindsay, Curator of the Garden 403 



