July 1896.] BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 553 



:\IEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 



Thursday, July 9, 1896. 



Dr. AiTKEN, President, in the Chair. 



Professor Bayley Balfour exhibited a quantity of 

 chaiTed grains of barley and wheat, together with fragments 

 of charred oak and willow, and some pieces of coal sent by 

 Dr. David Chpjstison from the Pioman Camp, Birrens, 

 Dumfriesshire. 



Mr. A. D. Richardson gave a description of the features 

 which distinguish the golden elder, Samhucus canadensis, 

 var. aurca, from the common elder, Samhucus nigra, and 

 exhibited specimens of both of them in flower. 



The following plants in flower were exhibited from the 

 Pioyal Botanic Garden : — Bessera miniata, Hypoxis stdlata, 

 Trichonena rosea, TricMnum Manglesii, Vaccinium mon- 

 tanum, ^'Eschynanthus grandifiorum, a white Cape 

 Haemanthus, species unknown. Pelargonium tetragona, Ixia 

 conica, Glohba coccinea, Ixora salicifolia. 



The following papers were read : — 



A Preliminary Xote on the Development of certain 

 Lenticels. By J. A. Terras, B.Sc. 



Notes from the PiOyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 



TRAyS. BOX. SOC. EDIX. VOL. XX. 2 N 



Issued November 1896. 



