552 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lx. 



MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 



Thursday, June 11, 1896. 



Dr. AiTKEN, President, in the Chair. 



Colonel Bailey exhibited and described specimens of 

 subcortical roots from a tree of Fagtts sylvatica in Dalnieny 

 Park. 



Mr. Grieve described a method of propagating tomatoes 

 by means of shoots formed at the basis of the leaves when 

 these are cut back. 



A series of Alpine Plants in bloom was exhibited from 

 the Eoyal Botanic Garden, in addition to the following 

 plants in flower : — Arisa:ma Jimbriata, Begonia Davisii, 

 Rodriguezia 'planifolm, Geissorhiza, secunda, Dracophyllum 

 gracile, Cydobothra coeridea, Dyckia rariflora, Saxifraga 

 longifolia vera, MaMlevoIlia calura, M. muscosa, Gladiolus 

 gracilis, Deiulrohium Falcoiuri, Cirrhopetalum Grijfflthianum, 

 Bla'ivdfordia aurea^ B. nohilis, B. fiammea, Hcemanthus 

 Katherinoe, Incai-vUlea Delavayi. 



The following papers were read : — 



Notes from the Koyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



Issued November 1896. 



