190 BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. _ [Szss; xxx. 
MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 
April 12, 1906. 
Mr. J. RurHERForD HI, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr, JAMES Wuyvrock showed an exceptionally fine collec- 
tion of flowers, etc., from Dalkeith Palace Garden. 
Mr. JAMES FRASER exhibited a series of casuals (Graminew) 
recently found in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, including 
some not previously recorded from Britain. 
Dr. A. W. BortHwick showed branches of various trees 
with fasciations. 
Mr. R. L. Harrow showed a series of plants in flower from 
the Royal Botanic Garden. 
The following communications were also read :— 
NOTE ON RHACOMITRIUM RAMULOSUM. By WILLIAM YOUNG. 
The specimen of the moss Rhacomitrium ramulosum which 
I now put before you was gathered on Craig Mohr, in the 
vice-county of Mid-Perth, in July 1898. It has taken a few 
years to come to its own. It has been variously named as 
the species sudeticum and the variety gracilescens of hetero- 
stichum. Under the latter cognomen two pieces were sent 
this year to the Moss Exchange Club. It has been examined 
by Professor Barker and Mr. H. N. Dixon, who agree in 
pronouncing it to be ramulosum of Lindberg. 
Dr. Braithwaite says: “This moss still (1888) remains a 
doubtful native, its claims as such resting solely on the 
unlocalised specimens in the Hookerian herbarium, where 
the habitat is simply described as ‘dry mountain rocks in 
the Highlands.’” Since then, as recorded by Mr. Dixon in 
his “ Handbook,” it has been found in two localities widely 
