July 1891.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 153 



MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 

 Thursday, July 9, 1891. 



Egbert Lindsay, President, in the chair. 



E. B. White, Esq. of Ardarroch, was elected Eesident 

 Fellow of the Society. 



William G. Smith, B.Sc, was admitted Eesident Fellow 

 of the Society. 



Presents to the Library at the Eoyal Botanic Garden 

 were announced. 



The following contributions to the Illustration Fund were 

 announced : — 



Dr Cleghorn, £1. 

 P. Neill Eraser, £1. 



Mr William B. Boyd sent for exhibition a large series of 

 cut flowers of alpine and herbaceous plants included in the 

 following list of rare plants flowered in his garden at Fal- 

 donside during the summer : — 



Ranunculus anemonoides, Anemone thalictroides, fl. pi., A 

 Baldensis, Aquilcgia truncata, Helleborus torqiiatus, true, 

 Adonis pyrenaica, Jeffersonia diphylla, Vancouveria hcxandra, 

 Corydalis Casseana, Ibcris petrcca, Oxalis enneophylla, 0. 

 lohata, Cytisus decumhens, Orobus GibUeri, Heuchera sanguined 

 splendens, Saxifraga Rudolphiana, S. odontophylla, S. flagellar is, 

 S. Tomhianensis, Lonicera pyrenaica, Phytcuma comosa, 

 Androsace villosa, Primula Parryi, P. Stuarti, P. Peidi, 

 Polemonium piliferum album, P. confertum, Litlwspermum 

 Gastoni, L. graminifolium, L. canescens, Pidmonaria dahurica, 

 Pentstemon Menzicsii, P. Lewisi, Globularia nana, Polygonum 

 sphiBrocephalum, Cypripedium spectabile, C. Caleeolus, Orchis 

 ustidata, 0. militaris, 0. latifolia supcrba, Iris fluviatilis, 



TRANS. BOX. SOC. VOL. XIX. M 



Issued October 1891. 



