508 Mr Lindsay's Report on Open- Air Vegetation, [sess. liii. 



Audrosace foliosa 



,, lanuginosa 



,, ,, Leichtliui 



Aquilegia pyrenaica 

 Cyananthus lobatus 

 Cypripedium parviflorum 

 Campanula AlUoni 

 Edniianthus caudatus 



pumilioruui 

 Dianthus neglectus 

 superbus 

 Eriophorum alpinuni 

 Exarrhena LyalHl 

 Gentiana lutea 

 Gillenia trifoUata 

 Leontopodium alpinum 

 Linaria origanifolia 



Mulgedium alpinum 

 Nardostachys Jatamansi 

 Orchis maculata superba 



,, IbUosa 

 OxaUs braziUensis 

 Peutstemon pubescens 



secundiflorus 

 Primula capitata 

 Rosa pyrenaica 

 Kliododendron ferrugineum 



album 

 Ranunculus parnassifolius 

 Saxifraga odontophylla 



,, valdensis 

 Saponaria cajspitosa 

 Senecio laxitiorus 

 Vella spinosa, &c. 



OBITUARY NOTICES OF DECEASED FELLOWS. 



Professor Alexander Dickson. By Professor Thomas 

 R. Eraser. 



(Read llth July 1889.) 



Botanical science sustained a great loss Ly the death of 

 Alexander Dickson. During a life which extended over 

 only fifty-one years, Dr Dickson had for nearly thirty years 

 given his best thoughts and energies to the teaching and 

 advancement of botany. His success in Ijoth directions has 

 been recorded in an enduring form in contemporaneous 

 botanical puljlications, and in the large number of students 

 of botany trained by him during a quarter of a century. 



Alexander Dickson was born at Edinburgh on the 21st 

 of February 1836. He sprang from a family which at 

 various times has given members to the legal and medical 

 professions; one of the earliest of whom any special records 

 exist having been John Dickson of Kilbucho and Hartree, a 

 lawyer, who in 1049 was appointed a Senator of the College 

 of Justice, taking the title of Lord Hartree. 



Alexander Dickson rc(;eiv(!d his early education at home. 

 In 1855, he entered the University of Edinl)urgli us a student 

 of medicine; and soon engaged with enthusiasm in tliose pre- 

 liminary scientific studies wliich liave so frequently been the 



