XXXVill PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
Mr. BENNET CLARK, the retiring PRESIDENT, then gave a 
short address, and gave accounts of the losses sustained by 
the Society through death during the past year. 
Mr. A. W. Bortruwick, D.Sc., the newly elected PRESIDENT, 
then took the Chair. 
The PRESIDENT alluded to the retiral of the ASSISTANT 
SEcRETARY, Mr. J. F. JEFFREY, and to his work which he 
had done for the Society, and to the election of Mr. 
M‘TaGGart Coway, jun., to that office. 
Mr. G. W. Scartu, M.A., made a short communication on 
Scheuchzerva palustris, Linn., as a British plant, and showed 
specimens of the plant found by him last summer on the 
Moor of Rannoch, thus restoring the plant to the British 
flora. 
Mr. W. T. Gorpon, M.A., B.Sc., showed a fine set of 
sections and photographs illustrating the Fossil Flora of 
the Pettycur Limestone. 
Mr. James M‘ANpDREW showed specimens of Hieraciwim 
pratense, Tansch., from Leith Docks, and Poa palustris, 
Linn., from New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, and read 
the following notes upon them :— 
“ Hieracium pratense, Tansch., is mentioned in ‘ Trans- 
actions of the Edinburgh Botanic Society, vol. x. p. 17, 
as having been first found in Scotland by the late Pro- 
fessor Balfour and his students on 27th June 1868 between 
Selkirk and Philiphaugh. Mr. Arthur Bennett writes me 
that it is recorded from Forres, Elgin, near Haddington, and 
near Edinburgh. It is found in Northern Europe, Sweden, 
Lapland, Norway, and Finmark, but is rare in Germany. 
This year, 1910, I found it in plenty, growing in extensive 
patches towards the east end of Leith Docks. 
“Tt has a premorse root usually giving off stolons; the 
stem has stellate, hoary, glandular pubescence; the leaves 
have a floccose appearance: the phyllaries are dark green, 
hairy, and setose. In these respects it differs from the 
other British species. 
“ Pou palustris, L., is recorded in Babington’s ‘ Manual of 
