June 189].] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 127 



MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Thursday, June 11, 1891. 



Egbert Lindsay, President, in the Chair. 



David Prain, M.D., was elected Non-Piesident Fellow of 

 the Society. 



James Macandrew and James Shaw were elected 

 Associates of the Society. 



Mr G. H. Potts exhibited a beautiful dwarf seedling 

 saxifrage raised by himself, Saxifraga hi/jmoides densa Pottsii. 

 He considered that the abundance of flower produced by the 

 plant and its compact dwarf habit will make the plant a 

 valuable bedder. 



Mr Grieve exhibited cut flowers of Cytisus lourpiireus alhus 

 and Cytisus andreanus. 



Mr Sanderson exhibited a fine bloom of Cypripedium 

 hellatulum. 



Mr Craig exhibited a fasciated scape of Primida datior. 



Professor Bayley Balfour, referring to a plant of Talimim 

 Caffrum, from South Africa, which was exhibited, remarked 

 that its tuberous napiform roots had been sent by Prof. 

 T. E. Eraser to the Garden as the source of a deadly poison. 

 The plant is not, however, poisonous. As it flowered in 

 the Garden, it exhibited blooms of an ephemeral character. 

 Opening about four in the afternoon, they closed after 

 expansion of about an hour and a half, and then withering 

 commenced. They were self-pollinated. 



The following plants in bloom from the Eoyal Botanic 

 Garden were exhibited : — Adonis pyrenaica, Erigcron Eoylei, 

 Cytisus purpweus, Gentiana verna, Dianthus alpino-harbatus, 



TRANS. EOT. SOC. EDIN. VOL. XIX. 



Issued July 1891. 



