508 



TEAXSACTIONS AND PKOCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lvii. 



in 1892 ; also of a very young one, Edinburgh Arboretum, 

 8 inches in girth 15 inches up. 



III. The Box {Btaiis sem2Jcrvircns). 



Dimensions of box trees on Inchmahome, Lake of Men- 

 teith (Mr. E. Hutchison, 1887). 



C. COXIFEILE. 



1. Native or Long-Introduced. 

 ]. T(iE Scots Lii; {Pini's .yjhrslris). 



I have been able to hear of ]n\i few existing native firs 

 of remarkable size in Scotland. Indeed, the general impres- 

 sion as to the dimensions attainable by the species may be 

 expressed by the bold assertion, made a few years ago, that 

 a Scots fir blown down at Lawc^rs, measuring only 13 feet 

 9 inches in girth, was the largest in the world ! Neverthe- 

 less, besides three trees of sliglitly greater girth, — one of 

 14 feet 7 inches, "Magog," at Guisachan ; another of 14 

 feet in Duthil Forest; the third, " Peter Porter," 13 feet 

 10 -5 inches (Sir R. Christison, 1880), at Abernethy, — there 

 are two which exceed the Lawers tree by several feet, one 

 at Glenfeshie, 15 feet 8 inches at 5 feet, the other at 



