286 TRA^ISACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. Lix. 



It is somewhat remarkable that though Ben Lomond 

 is but twenty-seven miles distant in a direct line from 

 Glasgow, and is visited annually by many botanists, it 

 should only at this late date be telling us that Cystopteria 

 montana belongs to its flora, and to the flora of Stirling- 

 shire. Through the kindness of Mr. Bennett I am in a 

 position to give particulars in full of the other five counties 

 in Britain in which C. montana occurs; they are (69) 

 Westmoreland, on Helvellyn ; (88) Perth, mid, on the 

 Breadalbanes ; (90) Forfar, in Caenlochan Glen; (92) 

 Aberdeen, south, in Glen Callater ; and lastly in Argyle, 

 main, on Ben Laoigh, on its north-western side, as I have 

 been kindly informed by Mr. G. Claridge Druce, F.L.S., 

 who was the discoverer of it there. ' C. montana was first 

 found in Britain by Mr. W. Wilson, on Ben Lawers, in 

 1836. Its foreign distribution, according to Sir J. 1). 

 Hooker, is in " arctic and alpine regions in Europe, Asia, 

 and America." 



XOTES FROM THE EOYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBUR(rH. 



* I. Eeport OX Temperature and Vegetation during 

 July 1894. By PiOBErt Lindsay, Curator, 



The month of July was for the greater part chaugeable 



and inclement, there was a marked absence of real summer 



warmth. Thunder storms were frequent during the month. 



The lowest night temperature was 37°, which occurred on 



the 25th of the month, and the highest 54°, on the 1st. 



The lowest day temperature was 61° on the 25th, and the 



hishest 85° on the 6th. 



* In a note, printed iu the Transactions of the Society, vol. xix. (1890), 

 p. 5. I indicated reasons why temperature records furnished monthly by 

 the Curator of the Garden for many years, and published in the Society's 

 Transactions, could not be considered trustworthy as a basis of scientific 

 deduction ; and during the four years that have elapsed since then, a 

 table of readings of the exposed thermometers has been furnished monthly, 

 along with the accurate meteorological register now kept in the Garden 

 for the purpose, as stated in my previous note, of comparison. As no 

 useful purpose seems likely to be served by these records, and their 

 citation mixst be entirely misleading for scientific purposes, they have 

 been discontinued since the end of July, and the Eegister of ^leteoro- 

 logical Phenomena from certified iustrmuents, in the manner adopted by 

 meteorologists generally, is now the only record kept iu the Garden. — 

 Isaac Bayley Balfour, Keeper of tlie Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



