304 A WEST OF SCOTLAND GARDEN. [Sess. LxxmI. 
Achnashie enjoying our yew and rowan berries; but these 
finished they are speedily away. 
“While there are large numbers both of fieldfares and of 
redwings, the former are generally more nunierous than the 
latter.” 
Dr. R. Stewart MacDouGaLL showed Twigs of Plum 
infested by Xyleborus dispar. 
THos. ANDERSON, M.A., sent for exhibition a specimen of 
Orchis pyramidalis, collected by him on the Links west of 
Archerfield, East Lothian, in August 1907. The plant was 
growing close to the shore in pure sand, accompanied only 
by a scanty growth of Ammophila arundinacea, and was the 
only one he observed. 
In making the exhibit Mr. W. Edgar Evans, B.Sce., pointed 
out that this was a new county record, and referred briefly 
to previous Scottish records. The first of these was from 
Colonsay, S. Ebudes (Lightf., “ Flor. Scot.,” 1777) ; the second 
from Leven Links, Fife, 1835 (J. Knapp, Herb. Roy. Bot. 
Gard. Edin.). He exhibited specimens gathered by Mrs. 
P. Evans at Leven in 1879, but said the species was now 
probably extinct here. Later county records were Wigton 
(“Cyb. Brit.,” 1849), Berwickshire (“ Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.,” 
1870), Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Mid Ebudes. 
Mr. Rk. L. Harrow showed the following plants in flower 
from the Reyal Botanic Garden :— 
Caralluma adscendens, Carpolyza spiralis, Cuscuta reflexa, 
Escallonia exoniensis, E. langleyensis, HE. macrantha, £. 
punctata, BE. Philippiana x punctata (raised at Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, 1907), Oryza sativa, var, atropurpurea, 
Phenocoma prolifera, var. Barnesii, Pitcairnia Roezliu, Poly- 
gonum equisetifolium. 
Mr, D. M‘GLASHEN showed Ranunculus arvensis as an alien 
from the Edinburgh district. 
On behalf of Mr. E. M. Ho.tmgs, F.LS., the President 
exhibited herbarium specimens of Origanuwm majoranoides, 
Willd., which had been received from Mr. W. Bevan, Acting 
