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I have since found the same plant growing in consider- 

 able quantity in and about another distillery at some 

 distance from the first ; and it is possible that the speci- 

 mens taken from the pipe in the first instance may have 

 been merely washed down by the steep w^ater from a more 

 congenial situation, though this I am not yet in a position 

 to prove. 



It is worthy of remark that neither of the distilleries in 

 question is in the habit of using either foreign barley or 

 foreign yeast, so that introduction of the fungus by this 

 means appears to be excluded from consideration. 



The FOLLOWING Exhibits were shown at the Meeting 

 ON Thursday, 11th May 1899. By Professor Scott 

 Elliot, M.A., E.Sc, F.L.S., F.E.G.S. 



A collection of Spanish flowering plants obtained in 

 March of this year in Andalusia, all from a small district 

 at the exact boundary of the alluvial valley of the Guadal- 

 quivir and the foothills of the Sierra. The associations 

 studied were — 



I. Eiverside on the Sierra. — This was characterised 

 by a rich profusion of Selaginella and Adiantum ; many 

 creepers, such as Bryonia, Tamus, Sniilax as2)er, Aristo- 

 lochia, and Clematis. Tamarisk and Ficus were amongst 

 the trees. 



II. The Sierra itself. — This was remarkable for the 

 Palmetto scrub, Tliymus, Notoclilccna lanur/inosa, bulbous 

 plants, etc. In small basins of tertiary age in the primi- 

 tive rock of the Sierra were found Rosemary, an enormous 

 white Cistus, and other shrubs. 



III. Uncultivated Alluvial Plain, — This was covered 

 by woods of Quercns ilex, with an undergrowth of a small 

 white Cistus, etc, ; Lavanchda skeclias ; Ormithof/ahim 

 u'liihdlatum in damp places, 



TV. Cultivated Alluvium, — A fallow field was covered 

 by Leucojum, and many British plants were found in the 

 waste ground, such as Borago, Anchusa, Ifeseda, Cyno- 

 glossum, Symphytum, Scrophularia, and also Calendula. 



