24 TEANSACTIOXS AXD PKOCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. L^^II. 



Killin, of which Mr. Jenner was elected an Honorary 

 Fellow on the 5th Aucrust 1873. During a botanical 

 visit to Eoss-shire and Inverness-shire in 1867, in com- 

 pany with Mr! Charles Howie of St. Andrews, Mr. Jenner 

 discovered a small moss, which Professor Schimper of 

 Strassburg regarded as a new species, and named Didy- 

 modoii Jennerii, in honour of its finder ; '" and in the same 

 excursion a handsome thistle was found, which has been 

 named Cnicus Carolorum (the Charles thistle). Mr. Jenner 

 suggested that the plant was probably a natural hybrid, and 

 this view has been generally accepted, the parents of the 

 form being C. hetcropliylhis and C. palustris. In August 

 1892, at Mr. Jeuner's request, I visited the district where 

 he had found the thistle twenty-five years previously, and 

 I was enabled, from his accurate instructions, to find the 

 plant, although its locality is limited to an area of a few 

 yards in extent. A few young plants were brought to 

 Easter Duddingston garden, but have not yet flowered. 



Xot the least of Mr. Jenner's ser'S'ices to botany and 

 horticulture is the formation and maintenance for so many 

 years of a garden which, in point of richness and interest, 

 is second to none of the private collections of living 

 plants in the kingdom. His garden had always the greatest 

 attractions for him, and a brief account of its origin and out- 

 standing features may be here given.t The grounds were 

 laid out chiefly by the late William Gome, the late James 

 Macnab also rendered valuable assistance. The garden now 

 consists of about eight acres, devoted to a large collection of 

 ornamental plants, with the exception of about an acre and 

 a half of vegetable garden. The original rock-garden was 

 constructed by Mr. Jenner and Mr. Howie in 1862, and con- 

 sists of a series of raised beds, having their margins fitted 

 with blocks of stone set on end, forming pocket-lik6 spaces 

 which were filled with special soil to suit the requirements 

 of various alj)ine plants. The stone divisions thus prevent 



* Figured and described in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., vol. ix. (1868), 

 pp. 314. 315. It has since been shown that this is the Oncophorux poly- 

 carpus (Ehrh.), Brid. See Braithwaite's Moss Flora of Great Britain, I., 

 p. 169. 



t An account of the garden, being a paper entitled " A Scientific 

 Garden," read at an evening meeting of the Edinburgh Naturalists' 

 Field Club and !Microscropical Society, on 23rd March 1>>92, -vnth 

 portraits of Mr. Jenner and Mr. Gorrie. and some views by Mr. John 

 Lindsay, was printed for private circulation in 1S92. 



