BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH xlni 



APRIL 13, L911. 



A. W. Borthwii'k. Esq., D.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



The following lady was elected an ordinary member :r— 

 Mrs. Catherine Maxwell, 13 Albert Terrace. 



Mr. J. L. Pike gave a lantern demonstration of Systematic 

 Forestry in the Black Forest. 



Dr. W. G. Smith showed slides illustrating various 

 (Ecological Types. 



Mr. W. W. Smith communicated descriptions and figures 

 of a new genus, Borthvnckia, named in honour of the 

 President of the Society, and of a new species, Leycesteria 

 Bell in a* i, W. \V. Smith, both from India. (See p. 175.) 



Mr. James Fraser showed specimens of the following 

 plants: — Agropyrurn repens, Beauv., var. Leersianum, 

 (nay, from the margins of fields at Caroline Park, Granton 

 (v.c. 83); A. repensxjunceum, forma subrepens, from the 

 shore at Caroline Park, Granton (v.c. 83) ; A. pungens, Roem. 

 and Schult., from St. David's, Fifeshire (v.c. 85); A ira caryo- 

 phyllea, L., var. multiculis (Dum.), from Leith Docks (v.c. 

 83), all of which were observed in their localities during 

 I 1 .' 10. the last two being first records for Scotland. 



Mr. R. L. Harrow showed a series of plants in flower in 

 the Roval Botanic Garden. 



MAY G, 1911. 

 A. W. BoHTHwiciv, Esq., D.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. L. MKeeveh read a paper upon Phceothamnion 

 confervicolum, Lagerheim, which he discovered for the first 

 time in Britain in the Braid marshes. (See p. 176.) 



Dr. Borthwkk showed a specimen of the so-called 

 " Brown ( >ak.' 



