582 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lvii. 



and W. Linton for Dumfriesshire, having stations at Spoon 

 Burn, Correferrou, Blacks Hope, etc. : — 



JTicracium ruhicinidnm, Y. L. H. n. sp. 



Hieracium murorum, var, saraypltyUum, Stensti'. 



Hieracium diiriceps, ¥. L. H. 



Bromus commutatus, Schrad., Aug. 8. Hohn fields. 



I have also to note the following plants as occurring at 

 Crawford and Abington, Lanarkshire : — 



Brala inuralU, L., May 14. Boadside at Abington. 



Vicia sylvatica, July 19. Boadside bank between 

 Camp Water and Medlock. 



Hieracium gothicum, July 19. Boadside bank between 

 Camp Water and JNIedlock. 



Veronica hederwfolia, June 21. Waste ground at 

 Abington. 



On Temperature and Vegetation in the Eoyal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, during the month of January 1893. 

 By Borert Lindsay, Curator of the Garden. 



During the early part of January, severe frost prevailed, 

 A change set in on the IHth of the month, after which the 

 temperature rose gradually, with but slight interruption, till 

 the close of the moiith, when fairly mild and genial weather 

 prevailed. Balls of snow occurred frequently during tlie 

 first lialf of the month. The thermouieter was at or below 

 freezing point on eighteen mornings, indicating collectively 

 100'" of frost for the month, as against 136° for tlie corre- 

 sponding month last year. The lowest reading was registered 

 on the morning of the 6th, wlien the glass went down to 9°, 

 or 23' of frost, the lowest point reached this winter, so far. 

 Ko other very low readings were registered during the 

 montli, the lowest being on the 3rd, 24°; Hth, 22°; 7th, 

 22°; 12th, 23°. The lowest day temperature was 32° on 

 the 2iid and 5t]i, and the highest 55° on the 31st of the 

 month. Of the forty selected plants whose dates of fiower- 

 ing are annually reccuded to tlie Society, the following canie 

 into fiower, viz.: — Bondia Bpipn.ctia on January 16th; 

 Erantliis hyemcdis, January 25th; GalantltUH j)/'ica/?«.s. 



