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Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh .... ix 



Survey of the Vegetation of the Parish of Shotts, Lanarkshire. By 



George Brown, M. A. (Plate IV.) 101 



Two New Himalayan Primulas from the Chumbi Valley. By W. W. 



Smith, M.A 118 



A Contribution to the Flora of Arran. By William G. Travis . . 120 



The Invasion of Vegetation into Disforested Land. By N. Miller 



Johnson, B.Sc, F.L.S. . .129 



A Revision of the Genus Cochlearia in Britain. I. Cochlearia danica, 



Linn. By M'Taggart Cowan .136 



Utricularia ochroleuca, Hartman, and U. intermedia, Hayne, as 



Scottish Species. By Arthur Bennett, A.L.S. . . . . 140 



Excursion of Scottish Alpine Botanical Club, 1912. By Alexander 



Cowan 144 



Notes on Scottish Plants. By G. Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.S. . .147 



Note on Araucaria Bidwillii, Hook. By Professor Giovanni Arcangeli 151 



A New Pleurospermum. By W. G. Craib, M.A., and W. W. Smith, M.A. 154 



William Gardiner, Author of "The Flora of Forfarshire" (1848). By 



Alexander P. Stevenson . . . ' . . . .155 



A New and Peculiar Astragalus from the Tibetan Frontier. By 



W. W. Smith, M.A 178 



On the Leaves of some Species of Banksia. By R. C. Davie, M. A., B.Sc. 179 



Stratiotcs Aloides, Linn., near Crieff. By R. C. Davie, M.A., B.Sc. 



(Plate V.) 180 



Lychnis Preslii, Sekera, and other Lothian Plants. By James Fraser . 183 



A New Lichen. Communicated by James M'Andrew .... 184 



Seedling of Thysanotus. By Prof. Bayley Balfour, F.R.S. (Plate VIa. ) 185 



Embryo of Laguncularia racemosa, Gaertn. By Prof. Bayley Balfour, 



F.R.S. (Plate VIb.) 186 



Primulas of the Bullate Section. By Prof. Bayley Balfour, F.R.S. 



(Plates VII.-XII.) 188 



