BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1X 
ready to be built upon at Morningside Grove, Edinburgh, 
This was one of the late George Don’s reputed discoveries 
in Scotland. Mr. M‘Andrew stated that in 1887 he found 
this rush on a gravelly roadside at West Risk, a mile west 
of New Galloway, Kirkeudbrightshire, and afterwards in 
three other places in the same county. “Since then it has 
turned up in several districts in the United Kingdom, but 
I think this is the first time it has been found in the 
extreme east of Scotland. It would be difficult to say how 
it has been introduced into this country—probably with 
hay or straw from the Continent, where it is common. In 
the 9th edition of the London Catalogue it is recorded for 
six, and in the latest edition for seventeen counties, which 
shows that it is spreading.” ! 
Mr. R. L. Harrow showed the following plants in flower 
from the Royal Botanic Garden :—Bougainvillea glabra, 
var. Sanderiana, Capsicum annuum, Cypripedium im- 
signe, Epiphyllum truncatum, Leelio-Cattleya Stattervana, 
Masdevallia Schroederiana, Peliosanthes humilis, Strepto- 
carpus Holstii, Tetramicra bicolor, Vanda Kimballiana. 
JANUARY 14, 1909, 
T. Bennet Cuark, Esq., C.A., President, in the Chair. 
The following candidates were elected Resident Fellows :— 
Miss Mary BARTHOLOMEW. 
Miss BERTHA CHANDLER, M.A., B.Sc. 
Miss JEAN G. THOMPSON. 
The PRESIDENT intimated the death of JamEs R. REDD, 
Esq., C.LE. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. NATIAS FLEXILIS, ROSTK. AND SCHMIDT, AS A BRITISH 
PuaNT. By Mr. AnTHUR BENNETT. (See p. 16.) 
1 In September 1909, near the same spot in Morningside Grove, | found 
two good tufts of Juncus tenuis, Willd., and to-day (9th October 1909) I 
found the same rush opposite Marchbank, by the side of the road leading 
from Balerno to Bavelaw. This makes two stations for this plant in 
Midlothian (J. M‘Andrew). 
