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MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 

 Thursday, June 9, 1892. 



Dr William Craig, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Curator exhibited Amorphophallus campanulatus, 

 MasdevalliaHarryana,Sandersonia aurantiaca, Olearia insignis, 

 Anemone alpina, A. palmatd, Anthericum liliastruin, Androsace 

 ladca, A.foliosa, Geranium argenteum, Gentiana verna,Galtonia 

 candicans, Exharrhena Lyallii, Hippocrepis helvetica, Houstonia. 

 ccendea, Fritillaria kamtschatica, Oxytropis uralensis, Primula 

 farinosa, Saxifraga longifolia, S. Mac7iahiana, S. lingulata 

 (seedling), Scilla verna, Bamondia pyrenaica, and var. alha, all 

 in flower in the Eoyal Botanic Garden ; also a curious 

 composite raised from seed sent by Mr Kingsmill from 

 Mexico, which has not yet flowered. 



Mr Wellwood H. Maxwell sent branches of Pseudotsuga 

 Douglasii, var. Stairii. 



Mr Neill Eraser exhibited Asplenium adulterinum, Milde, 

 a hybrid between A. TricJwmanes and A. viride. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited, from the Museum, a 

 stem of Ash presented by Professor Somerville showing well 

 the burrows of Hylcsinus fraxini ; also a series of plants 

 collected by Dr Julius John Wood in India, and paintings 

 from nature of Gloriosa superla and Poinciana regia by the 

 same gentleman. 



Dr Craig exhibited, on behalf of Mr Ivison Macadam, a 

 specimen of the flower stems of Fritillaria meleagris showing 

 two flowers on each stem. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited seedlings of British 

 species of Plantago. Plantago arcnaria, P. Coronopus, P. 

 lanceolata, and P. maritiriia form one group ; Plantago major 

 Issued December 1892. 



