May 1894.] . BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 221 



MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Thursday, May 10, 1894. 



Dr. ^yILLIAM Craig, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. E. TuRNBULL exhibited a stem of Hippuris, showing 

 a spiral arrangement of the normal whorls of leaves. 



From Mr. P. H. Xoemand, Whitehill, Aberdour, were 

 exhibited cut blooms of two-year-old seedlings of Cytissus 

 scopariuiii, var. andrcanus, — the flowers varied in colour, 

 none so dark as the parent variety, and some being as 

 yellow as the type; also blooms of Spiraa primifolia, 'A. 

 pi. ; also a plant of Anemone Hepatica, with white blotches 

 on the leaves ; also cut blooms of double white Banksian 

 rose from a cool conservatory at Balmuto ; also blooms of 

 Ornithofjalum lactcum, grown under glass, which had been 

 cut more than a month previous. 



From Dr. Stuart, Chirnside, cut blooms were exhibited 

 of a Trollius hybrid between T. curopccus and T. amcricanus. 



From ]Mr. Campbell of Ledaig cut blooms, from the 

 open garden, were exhibited of Dcuizia f/raeilis, Buddleia 

 (jlobosa, double red hawthorn, etc. 



Amongst herbaceous and alpine plants on the table from 

 the Eoyal Botanic Garden were — Androsacc sarmcntosa, 

 A. villosa, Daphne rupestris, Gcntiana verna, Ifi/osotis 

 pygmcca, M. lithospermifolia, Silene acaulis alba, Soboloi'jskya 

 clavata. 



Issued November 1894. 



