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MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS. 



SESSION 1886-87. 

 November 11, 1886. 



Dr Paterson, Bridge of Allan, sent for exhibition a plant of 

 DycMa rariflora. He stated — " I have had the plant for more than 

 twenty years, and it has never thrown an offset, but it flowers every 

 year, and seeds freely. Whether the seeds are fertile or not I 

 cannot say, as I have never tried them." 



Mr Sinison, Dundee, exhibited a large plant of Tridiomaties 

 radicans, which had grown from a small rhizome originally found 

 by him in Arran (Clyde) in 1863. 



Mr Lindsay exhibited a large number of flowers from the open 

 air, including Dahlias, Geraniums, Lobelias, Calceolarias, Senecio 

 speciosus, Aponogeton, &c. He also exhibited from the garden a 

 plant of Eucaly2itus Gunnii, raised from seed ripened at "Whitting- 

 hame, East Lothian, last year, and the new Sagina Boydli. 



Mr John Campbell, Ledaig, sent flowers then blossoming in his 

 garden. 



Mr Archibald Gray exhibited a dried plant of Arenaria norvegica 

 which he had gathered in West Sutherlandshire. 



December 9, 1886. 



Dr H. H. Johnston exhibited and presented to the Society 

 specimens of two Orkney plants collected by him last summer. 

 Sagina maritima, Don, in a very contracted form, one-third to one 

 inch high and one to three flowered, was collected at the Ness of 

 Ramnageo, Sandwick, on the mainland, on July 23. It grew 

 among the short, densely-matted pasture, within a few feet of the 

 edge of the cliffs, and in a situation exposed to the salt spray of the 

 Atlantic Ocean, and the full force of the westerly gales which are 

 so prevalent in the Orkney Islands. Professor Babington, to whom 

 specimens of the Orkney Sagina were sent, wrote that he had 

 apparently the same plant, rather more luxuriant, from Far-out 

 Head. The pasture among which the Sagina grew was fully 

 examined by Dr Johnston, who found that it was composed of the 

 following eleven species of plants, all of which were in a very stunted 

 condition: — Cochlearia officinalis, Linn.; yS alpina, Wats.; Cer- 

 astium triviale, Link.; Sagina maritima, Don; Armeria maritima, 

 Willd.; MqjJirasia officinalis, Linn.; Plantago maritima, Linn.; 



