BOTANICAL NEWS, 87 
Genus Thuja, Linn., and of the North American Species of the Genus Libo- 
cedrus, Endl.” in its passage through the press. At page 363 of the volume 
in which it is contained (Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. = the parallel columns 
containing the characters of the two genera should be transposed, and the word 
“the,” fifteenth line from foot of p. 362, last word in the line deleted. This 
error is evident both from the context and the preceding and following matter, 
but as it stands is apt to be confusing 
Dr. Masters lately exhibited, at a Sati of the Scientific Committee of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, a s n of a monecious Mistleto, sent by 
Mr. George Thomson, gardener A ‘Stansted Park, Sussex. The same main 
trunk bore short, stiff, compact shoots, with small leaves of a dark green colour, 
and ripe berries, and, at the same time, long, slender, pendulous, whip- -like 
tea with larger yellow-coloured leaves, and perfect male sonst in full 
bloo Dr. Masters stated that he had never before seen or he similar 
rofessor Oliver, who had paid much attention 
to the Loranthacee, had also informed Dr. Masters, that he had not seen any 
record of monoivism in the Mistleto, though such a condition was common in 
some of the other genera of the Order. Professor Oliver also remarked that 
the present case was the more remarkable from the fact that the sexual cha- 
racteristics of Mistleto are usually so well marked that it is possible to distin- 
guish the male from the female plants at a distance by their colour or genera 
aspect. It was suggested by some members of the Committee that this might 
case of natural grafting, owing to a seed having fallen on the male plant, 
and there germinated—a parasite on a parasite !—but this view of the case was 
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Mr. Wilson Saunders, at the same meeting, exhibited a Hyacinth of the 
variety ipe “ Robert Steiger,” in which the fowert, instead of being of their 
ual carmine colour, were all green. The difference in colour was associated 
cence or phyllomorphy in Colchicum autumnale, and Dr. Masters to the like 
phenomena in some species of Convallaria. : 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
EDINBURGH BOTANICAL SOCIETY met on Thursday, 14th J; anuary, 1869, at 5, 
St. Andrew Square, Dr. re et ian ier in the chair. The following commu- 
nications were read :—I. Bio; cal Notices of Carl Friedrich Phillipp von 
Martius, M.D. ; and Adalbert ri Sclinizlein, Ph.D., late members of the Society. 
By Dr. Cleghorn. II. The Lichen Flora of Greenland. By Dr. Lauder 
Lindsay. The author stated that his attention had been drawn to the lichen 
