1S86-S7.] Mr Lindsay's Report on Open-Air Vegetation. 129 



Register of Spring- Flowering Plants, shouing Dates of Flon-cring at the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, during the years 1886 and 1887. 



On the Eock Garden 159 species and varieties came into 

 flower during April, being forty in excess of last April. 

 Amongst the most interesting were Anemone apennina, An- 

 drosace Laggerii, Aubrietia Hendersoni and Campbelli, Arwtn 

 prohoscideum, Cheiranthiis Menziesii, Corydalis nohilis, Urythro- 

 niuni giganteum and roseum, Gentiana verna, Menziesia coeru- 

 lea and empetriformis, Muscari Argcei, Iberis petrcea, Nar- 



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