Ji-NEl894.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 227 



:meeting of the society. 



Thursday, June 14, 1894. 



Professor Bower, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Vv^iLLiAM Sanderson exhibited a pLant of Oiicidinm 

 macranthum in flower. 



From Mr. Campbell of Ledai^ was exhibited a shell-full 

 of ripe strawberries from his open gai'den. 



Amongst herbaceous plants from the lioyal Botanic 

 Garden on the table were a series of hybrids of Dmntlius, 

 raised by Mr. Burnett, of Aberdeen. 



Mr, Tagg exhibited specimens of Tahcrnccmontana 

 longijiora, Benth., showing extra-axillary branching. 



The following papers were read : — 



Note ox the Occurrence of a Variegated For.m of 

 THE Common Mistletoe (Viscum alliun). By J. Grieve. 



There is at present growing on a healthy thorn, in the 

 Dean Cemetery of this city, a form of the common mistletoe 

 sufficiently striking to merit attention being called to it. 

 As will be seen from the specimen exhibited, the leaves 

 are beautifully variegated, such a departure from the 

 normal type being very unusual. Indeed, I do not know 

 of any other example of the mistletoe " sporting " in this 

 manner, and I have ventured to place it before the Society 

 in order to learn if any of the members have met with 

 such " sports " in this parasitic plant. The specimen 

 exhibited is some ten or twelve years old, but no record 

 of it has hitherto been made. 



Issued Xovember 1894. 



