Mau. 1893.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 585 



]\[EETING OF THE SOCIETY. 



Thursday, March 9, 1893. 



Dr. David Christison, President, in the Chair. 



Lady Christison was elected Eesident Fellow of the 

 Society. 



William Henry Wilkinson was elected Xon-Resident 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Presents to the Library at the lioyal Botanic Garden 

 were announced ; amongst them being a set of the " So 

 ]Moku Zusetzu," a valuable illustrated work of the Botany 

 of Japan, presented by A. Coxon, Esq., 8 William Street, 

 London ; and the " Yoduko So Yoku Dyusetzu " and the 

 " So Moku Seifu," presented by the Director of Kew 

 Gardens. 



The Curator exhibited plants of Rhododendron racc- 

 mosiwi, Anifjozanthus hrevifolius, and Saxifraga Burserian 

 Boydii in flower, from the lioyal Botanic Garden ; also a 

 branch in bloom of Bhododendron daJmricum, var. atrovirens. 



The lie v. David Landsborough sent for exhibition cut 

 specimens of species of Eucalyptus grown in the island of 

 Arran, including E. imuciflora and E. alimia, both with 

 ripe fruit ; also a flowering branch of Cordylme au&ti'alis 

 from a plant grown in similar circumstances in Arran. 



The following papers were read : — 



Orobanche cruenta, Bertoloxi, in Scotland. IJy 

 Arthur Bennett. 



Some years ago an old member of the London Botanical 

 Society gave me a collection of plants that he had no use 

 for ; they were such as he had at various times received 



Issued Novemljor 18',I3. 



