BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XXXV 



Meeting of the Society, April 12, 1900. 

 Dr. T. B. Si'RAGUE, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. C. Crawford exhibited a series of microphoto- 

 graphs, illustrating the structure of the stem in l^ritish 

 Boraginea; and Carices. 



Mr. W. G. Black exhibited an oil painting and a 

 number of photographs of a clump of trees blown down by 

 the gales of November and December 1886. 



Dr. Pi. Stewart MacDougall, M.A., exhibited a case of 

 specimens illustrating Mimicry among European Lepidop- 

 tera. 



Mr. I\. Lindsay exhibited flowering pot plants of 

 Primula denticulata, P. marginata, P. Jloribunda, P. verti- 

 cillata, P. frondosa, and a blue form of P. vulgaris. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Artemisia stdUriana, Boss., in Scotland. By Gr. 

 Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.S. Communicated 

 by Dr. E. Stewart MacDougall, M.A. 



II. The Functions of the Climbing Eoots of Ivy. By 

 Commander F. M. Norman, E.N. 



III. On a Deciduous Cedrus Atlantica. By Commander 



F. M. Norman, E.N. 



IV. On an Elder growing on an Apple. ]>y Com- 



mander F. M. Norman, E.N. 



Meeting of the Society, May 10, 1900. 

 Rev. Dr. David Paul, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : — . 



I. Variations in Jjycopodium clavatiim. By E, A. 

 Eobertson, M.A., B.Sc. 



II. Mehnert's Principles of " Time Displacements " 

 applied to the development of the Sporophyte. 

 By E. A. Eobertson, M.A., B.Sc, 



