BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 6.0.9 
cluster or crown of twenty-seven fully developed and 
mature cones surrounding the apex of the main axis of the 
tree. The apical shoot seems to have withered, so that 
further growth of the main axis is arrested. Evidently 
this interesting abnormality is due to the transformation 
of the lateral bifoliar shoots into carpellary flowers. This 
phenomenon appears to occur not infrequently, though not 
to so marked a degree as in the specimen. In the Museum 
at the Royal Botanic Garden there is a specimen very like 
the present one,in which the main axis is prolonged beyond 
the cluster. The cones, however, are smaller than in this 
specimen, and apparently immature. The cause of this 
peculiar abnormality does not appear to be known. Injury 
to the tree sometimes leads to such deviations, but in this 
case the tree was without injury or deformity of any 
kind. 
Mr. JAMES FRASER showed specimens of Cherophylluim 
auwreum, Linn., from the left bank of the Teith, below 
Callander, Perthshire (V.C. 87), where it grew in con- 
siderable quantity in August 1907. The previous records 
of this plant in Scotland were those of George Don, the 
Forfarshire botanist, who reported it from Forfarshire and 
from near the village of Kirkliston, West Lothian. 
Mr James Wuyvtock showed a selection of cut flowers 
from Dalkeith Palace Gardens. 
Mr. R. L. Harrow showed the following plants in flower 
from the Royal Botanic Garden:—<Achillea ageratifolia, 
Androsace villosa, Calypso borealis, Cassiope tetragona, 
Hesperis humilis, Iris bucharica, Primula Bilckii, 
P. Kellereri, P. Kitaibeliana, P. Reidii, P. Tanner, 
Scutellaria indica, var. japonica. 
MAY 6, 1910. 
The Meeting to be held on this date was cancelled, owing 
to the death of His Masesty THE KING, the Patron of the 
Society. 
