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plants raised is one of a most interesting and beautiful 

 variety, the leaves being so covered with a hoary bloom, 

 both above and on the under side, as to be almost white. 

 Having been transplanted, it is only about half the size of 

 the other. I have seen none at all like to it. 



Eoseneath, at the mouth of Gare Loch on the Clyde, is 

 the most northern site where the gum trees have been tried 

 with success. It is above the 56° of north latitude. It is a 

 most beautiful parish, and in it there is no more lovely spot 

 than that of the Established Church manse. Here the tallest 

 tree in the world, the giant gum {Euccdyptus aiiiygdalinci, var. 

 regnans) was planted in 1876. It grew famously till the 

 winter of 1880-81, when very severe frost cut it to the 

 ground. It sprouted again in the spring, and grew so 

 quickly that, lest it should break, it was topped. It now is, 

 however, 15 feet 4 inches in height and 6i feet in girth, both 

 height and girth being taken at 41 feet from the ground, as 

 it bifurcates just above this. 



Near to the giant gum grows a specimen of the urn-bear- 

 ing gum {Euccdyptus urnigcra). It was planted a few years 

 ago, and has had to contend with a squirrel which ate its 

 bark, and a roedeer that ate its leaves, yet it is doing well, 

 and, being more hardy, may yet overtop its giant neighbour. 



I have thus given a full and exact account of the 

 Australian and New Zealand plants known to me as grow- 

 ing in Arran and in the west of Scotland. This report I 

 will not repeat for some time. Should I, or any one else, 

 at the end of half-a-dozen years furnish your Society with 

 another report, it is hoped that it will tell of great growth 

 and development. 



Notes on Three Rare Carnarvonshire Plants. By A. D, 

 Webster. 



(Read 11th November 1886.) 



The three plants above referred to, and which from their 

 rarity in this country I have considered worthy of the fol- 

 lowing brief remarks, are Lloydia scrotina, Cotoneaster vidgaris, 

 and Potamogeton G^^ijjithii, none of which have been found 

 wild in any other British county, and the last named is 

 recorded only from one station at present. 



