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States,* but has not been reported before now on the 

 chestnut in Britain. 



Dr Patersox exhibited fine inflorescences of Cynibidium 

 giganteum, of Vanda sicavis variety, and of Epidendron sp., 

 from his garden at Bridge of Allan. 



Mr John Campbell exhibited blooms of Bhododendron 

 NoUeanum, Cytistis fragrans, Veronica Andersoni var., Passi- 

 flora cceridea, and a branch of Olearia moschafa cut from 

 plants growing in open air in his garden at Ledaig, Argyle- 

 shire. 



Mr W. B. Boyd exhibited plants of Galanthus nivalis, 

 var. odohrcnsis, in flower ; also of Aspidium Lonchitis, Sw., 

 with crested fronds, originally found by Dr Wm. Craig near 

 Loch Awe, grown in his garden at Faldonside, Melrose. 



The Curator exhibited /ris Bakeriana and Cuscuta re- 

 flexa, in flower, from the Royal Botanic Garden. 



The following Papers were read : — 



Distribution of the Sclerenchyma-Elements in some 

 Leaves. By James Terras, B.Sc. 



Mr Terras described and exhibited, in the lantern micro- 

 scope, preparations of various leaves showing the arrange- 

 ment of the sclerenchyma-elements. The chief points 

 shown were : — Amongst Conifera?, the hypodermal stereome- 

 layers and stellate mesophyllic ideoblasts, of Araucaria 

 imbricata, Dammar a robusta and Sciadopitys vcrticillata, and 

 in Podocarpus elegantissimus, the hypodermal stereome-layer 

 and the transverse ideoblastic lattice-work in the mesophyll 

 parallel to the surface of the leaf, both of which are absent in 

 P. ferrv/jinea. Amongst ProteaceiL^ the hypodermal stereome- 

 network in Banhsia integrifolia, which is absent in B. 

 serrata, and the stagshorn-like ideoblasts in Halcca saligna 

 and H. gihhosa, which are absent in H. cucalyptoides. 



* Farlow and Seymour, Provisional Host Index of the Fungi of the United 

 States, partii., 1890, Cambridge, U.S.A. 



