346 TEAXSACTIOXS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lis. 



The Gents Gloiopeltis* By Professor Fr. Schmitz, 

 Greifswald. 



Notes from the Eoyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



I. Eeport on Vegetation during the Month of 

 December 1894. By Eobert Lindsay, Curator. 



The weather during December was exceedingly mild, 

 with comparatively little frost or snow, and but for the 

 severe gales which occurred towards the close of the month 

 it would have been one of the most favourable Decembers 

 on record. Owing to the mildness, spring-flowering 

 bulbous plants, such as Iris reticulata. Narcissus incom- 

 parahilis, X. minor, N. triandrus, Crocus verjius, Galanthus 

 nivalis, etc., were well started into growth, the young 

 shoots, in some cases, being nearly an inch above the 

 ground. Bhododendron NoUeanum, Garrya ellijJtica, Jas- 

 minum midijlorum, Schizostylis coccinea, and varieties of 

 primrose were in flower during the month. 



On the rock-garden no new plants came into flower 

 during December. The total number of species and 

 varieties which have flowered on the rock-garden during 

 the year 1894 amounts to 1143, as against 1114 for 

 1893. The largest number came into flower during the 

 month of June. 



The number of species which came into flower each 

 month was as follows : — January, 2 2 ; February, 4 1 ; 

 March, 75; April, 153; May, 227; June, 288; July, 

 193; August, 9 4 ; September, 3 ; October, 1 8 ; Nov- 

 ember, 2; December, — total, 1143. 



* Owing to the untimely death of the author, it has not been 

 possible to have this paper prepared for publication in this part of 

 the "Transactions," but it is hoped it may appear in a subsequent 



