BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH xxix 



NOVEMBER 16, 1922. 



Professor W. Wright Smith, M.A., F.L.S., F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Miss Agnes Chalmers, Mrs. Douie Urquhart, and Mr. 

 E. M, Buchanan were elected Resident Fellows. 



Mr. David M'Call was elected a non-Resident Fellow. 



Miss H. C. Abernethy, Miss C. C. Burt, Miss A. N. Gum- 

 ming, Miss E. M. Henderson, Miss M. M. B. Knagg, Miss K. 

 Massey, and Miss M. J. F. Wilson were elected Ordinary 

 Members. 



The President read an obituary notice of William Evans, 

 an Associate of the Society since 1871 (see p. 189). 



Mr. Ian W. Seaton read a paper on the Seedling Structure 

 of Salix pentandra (see p. 161). 



Dr. Malcolm Wilson read a paper on Puccinia mirabilis- 

 sima, Feck (see p. 164). 



Mr. J. R. Matthews exhibited Azolla filicidoicles, Lam., 

 from Norfolk, and Tillaea aquatica, Linn., from Yorkshire. 



Mr. J. Rutherford Hill exhibited specimens of Calabar 

 Beans and of the drugs made from them. 



The following plants in flower were shown from the Royal 

 Botanic Garden : — Cirrhopetalum Mahoyanum, Reichb. f. ; 

 Coelogyne {Pleione) maculata, Lindl. ; Dorstenia yumbuyaensis, 

 De Wild. ; Hamelia patens, Jacq. ; Masdevallia Laucheana, 

 Hort. Sander. ; Pinguicula caudata, Schl. ; Pleurothallis 

 astrophora, Reichb. f. ; Sempervivum tabulaeforme, Haw. ; 

 Stenoglottis longifolia, Hook. f. 



