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below it, but in the region toward the base of the shoot ; 

 comparatively few of the former ever elongate, while the 

 latter never do so under normal circumstances, but replace 

 the axillary branches if these should chance to be injured. 

 In the upper parts of the shoot, however, the axillary buds 

 develop into racemose unilateral inflorescences, while in 

 autumn, after the termination of the flowering period, their 

 accessory buds frequently elongate into leafy branches, the 

 leaves of which, themselves in most cases much smaller 

 than those borne on the main axis, bear inflorescences in 

 their axils, or only the leaves towards the apex of the 

 branch do so while the lower bear leafy branches. The 

 accessory buds themselves occasionally elongate into inflor- 

 escences without the intervention of leafy branches, but in 

 either case the result is the same, namely, the production of 

 a second autumnal flowering period. Those of the axillary 

 buds arising towards the base of the shoot which elongate, 

 form branches which behave in the same way as the shoot 

 itself. 



Notes fko.m the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



I. Eeport on Vegetation during the month of 

 March 1895. By Robert Lindsay, Curator. 



During March vegetation made considerable progress, 

 but the severity of the previous months has been such as 

 to render the season a very late one. Trees and shrubs 

 are late in developing their leaf buds. Hardly any 

 perceptible change was noticed at the end of the month, 

 many being still in their winter condition. The extent of 

 injury done to various shrubs by frost during the pro- 

 tracted winter is now more apparent, and is even greater 

 than w^as anticipated. Herbaceous plants are late in 

 flowering, the earlier kinds continued in bloom for a much 

 shorter time than usual. Of the forty spring-flowering 

 plants whose dates of flowering are annually recorded, 

 the following twenty-three came into flower during 

 March: — Eranthis hiemcdis on 1st March; Galanthus 

 nivalis, 1st; G. plicahis, 4th; Corylus Avellana, 7th; 



