Feb. 1896.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 531 



THE SOUTH OF ARRAN. 



The south of Arran is mild. At the Island of Pladda, 

 half a mile in froat, the lowest temperature for the last 

 thirty years was in January 1881, when it fell to 28°. 

 The bay betwixt Kildonan Castle and Bennan Head is the 

 mildest and sunniest portion of Arran, for it is most open 

 to the ocean, and lies full to the sun at noon. It is also 

 protected on the north by mountains, and immediately 

 above by steep and high cliffs. As yet its fitness for 

 Australian and other foreign plants is untried. I rejoice it 

 is to be so no longer, as George Clark, Esq,, who is building 

 DrumlabaiTa House in the centre of the bay, sympathises 

 with such experiments. To give a good start, the following 

 plants from the Edinburgh Eoyal Botanic Garden have 

 most kindly been gifted by Professor Bayley Balfour : — 



1. Brachyglottis repanda. 



2. Camellia Thca. 



3. Coprosma rhamnoides. 



4. Dicksonia antarctica. An Arran seedling. 



5. Eucalyptus vernicosa. 



6. Eucalyptus verrncosa. 



7. Eriobotrya (Fhotinia) japonica. 



8 . Ill iciu m jioridia nu m . 



9. Mandevillea succveolens. 



10. Plaffianthv.s hetulimts. 



11. Tecoma Smithii. 



12. Weinmannia racemosa. 



13. Widdringtonia Whytei. 



Notes from the Eoyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.* 



* The Meteorological and other Reports communicated under this 

 heading will in future be published elsewhere. 



