Jan, 1908. | NOTE ON A SCOTS PINE TREE. 321 
Note on A Scots Prine TREE OF GREAT DIMENSIONS IN 
Co. Cork.t. By Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D., LL.D. 
This grand specimen I found in a dense wood near 
Castletownshead, Co. Cork, overhanging the harbour in a 
well-sheltered position quite 100 feet above the sea. It 
measured at the base 12 feet in girth; 6 feet up, where large 
branches began to come off, 15 feet 10 inches. It appeared 
not less than 120 feet in height, with many large branches. 
The soil was shallow on shale rock, and much ivy had 
invested it, although the ivy was dead in many places, 
resisted by the strenuous vitality of this monarch. Ferns 
grew in the forks of it, and a small ash tree had grown from 
the largest of these. I have warned Madame C. de Bunsen, 
the proprietor of the property, to have the tree cleared and 
better tended. I believe it must be at least two hundred 
years old, and it is possibly the largest, or one of the largest, 
in Ireland. 
Mr. GreorGE Forrest exhibited a selection of new and 
remarkable species of Primula from N.W. Yunnan and 
S.E. Tibet, and submitted the following note :— 
The most interesting species shown are P. vincijlora, Franch., 
Delavayi, Franch.,and Franchetii, Pax, comprising, as they do, 
three out of the four species contained in the remarkable 
section Omphalogramma. The section takes its name from 
the round and flattened form of the seed, which one might 
easily mistake at first glance for that of a monocotyledon, 
Monsieur Franchet, who identified the bulk of the col- 
lections made by Pere Delavay and other members of the 
French Roman Catholic Mission in the same district from 
which the specimens exhibited came, was so struck by their 
distinct appearance that he formed a sub-genus of them, still 
retained as a section of the genus Primula. 
It is interesting to note that the only other known species 
contained in that section is P. Hlwesiana from the Sikkim- 
Himalaya. The flora of the extension of the Himalaya 
mountains, from that point until their entrance into Yunnan, 
has up to date been untapped, but almost certainly, once 
1 For measurements of large Scots pine trees in Scotland see Dr, 
David Christison in “ Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.,” xix. (1893), p. 508. 
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