May 1895.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 425 



MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Thursday, May 9, 1895. 



Symington Grieve, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The desirability of altering the hour of some of the 

 meetings of the Society, to suit the convenience of country 

 members, having been brought before the Council, the 

 question was submitted to the members at this meeting 

 for consideration and discussion. Ultimately it was 

 resolved, on the motion of Professor Bayley Balfour, 

 seconded by Mr. Symington Grieve, to refer the matter 

 back to the Council, with an instruction to obtain a direct 

 expression of opinion from the whole Society by post card 

 or otherwise. 



Mr. Tagg exhibited from the Museum of the Eoyal 

 Botanic Garden specimens of pine weevil {Hylohius abidis) 

 upon spruce, received from Mr. GuNN, Strathpeffer, and 

 taken from a young plantation at Fornabrock, which it had 

 greatly destroyed. 



Mr.. Egbert Turnbull commented upon hybrids in 

 flower between the swede turnip and the green kail, which 

 had been grown in the Eoyal Botanic Garden from the 

 plants exhibited by him to the Society at the meeting in 

 January. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited a monstrous flower 

 of Cypripedium, in which the right labellar staminode had 

 developed as a perfect stamen with filament and two-lobed 

 anther, whilst the two normally perfect stamens were also 

 developed to form distinct filaments bearing anthers. 



Issued November 1895. 



