Nov. 1893.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDIXBUEGII. 3 



Presents to the Lil)rary at the Royal Botanic Garden 

 were announced. Amongst them being a copy of the first 

 fasciculus of the new " Index Kewensis." 



Professor Bayley Balfour informed the Society that 

 Mr. George William Traill, the well-known algologist, 

 had presented his magnificent collection of alga? to the 

 Society. 



Mr. Malcolm Dunn exhibited a number of cut blooms of 

 herbaceous and other plants from the open ground, to show 

 the mildness of the season and the occurrence of late and 

 second blooms, amongst them being : — An apple (Liberton 

 Einger), several kinds of rose, stock, rosemary, anemone, 

 strawberry tree, primrose, etc. ; also twigs of Chimonanthus 

 fragrans, with flower buds, and a few clusters of straw- 

 berries. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited specimens, sent by 

 Dr. Aitchison from Gulmey, Kashmir, preserved in spirit, 

 of Arceuthohium imnutissimum, Hook, fil., on Pinus coxclsa, 

 a loranthaceous plant described by Sir Joseph Hooker in 

 the Flora of British India V., 227, and referred to by him 

 as " the most minute dicotyledonous plant I can call to 

 mind " ; also specimens of proliferous Ecscda alia received 

 from C. A. Middleton, Esq., Manxhead, Stow. 



Mr. Campbell sent for exhibition, from the open ground 

 of his garden at Ledaig, Argyllshire, cut blooms of Veronica 

 Andcrsoni and var., Escallonia macrantha, and other half- 

 hardy plants. 



The following Papers were read : — 



Excursion of the Scottish Alfixe Botanical Club 

 to Clova, 1893. By Rev. David Paul, M.A., Rox- 

 burgh. 



This year the visit of the Scottish Alpine Botanical 

 Club was to the classic ground of Clova. The party which 



