BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XI 



Acama, Linn., Crucianella latifolia, Linn., Paronychia 

 argentea, Lam., Gorynephorus fascicidatus, Boiss. et Reut., 

 Festuca Poa, Kunth, F. hemipoa, Del., F. dertonensis, var. 

 Broteri, Asch. et Grbn., F. (Vulpia) setacea, Pari., Loliv/m 

 subulatum, Vis., L. remotum, Schrank, Triticum ventri- 

 cosum, Ces. Pass, et Gib. var. truncatum, Hackel — casuals 

 found by him in the count\^ of Edinburgh ; also Barbarea 

 praecox, Br., Guizotia abyssinica, Cass., Sedum album, 

 Linn., Alopecurus utriculatus, Pers., Gaudinia fragilis, 

 Beauv. — casuals from Wigtownshire. 



The following plants, new or uncommon in cultivation 

 were shown from the Royal Botanic Garden : — 



Arenaria picta, Sibth. et Sm., from Asia Minor and 

 Syria: a pink-flowered species resembling Tunica Saxi- 

 fraga. Cyananthus Forrestii, Diels, a new species from 

 Yunnan : a small-flowered species with pale lavender flowers 

 and graceful habit. Erodium Stephanianum, Willd., 

 Eastern China : a plant of the shores, with dark purple 

 flowers. Gentiana gent His, Franch., from Yunnan : an 

 annual free-flowering Gentian with purple-blue flowers. 

 Lobelia taliensis, Diels, a new species from Yunnan : small- 

 growing, with purple-blue flowers. Primula pseudo- 

 capitata, Ward: a new undescribed species from Yunnan, 

 with rotate capitula, resembling P. capitata, but much 

 smaller. Psilostrophe Tagetinae, Kuntze : a beautiful 

 yellow-flowered composite from the Southern United 

 States. Saxifraga turfosa, Engl, et Irmscher : a new yellow- 

 flowered species from Yunnan, allied to S. diversifolia and 

 S. pamassifolia, but distinguished by its long stolons. 

 Saxifraga sp. : a new Yunnan species with yellow flowers, 

 allied to S. cinerascens, Franch. Selago spuria, Linn. : a 

 free-flowering, white-flowered species from South Africa. 

 Sty Helium articulatum, R. Br., Australia : one of the 

 riband-leaved rosette forms of the genus. Swertia angusti- 

 folia, Ham. : a delightful pale lavender-flowered species 

 with spotted petals from the Himalaya. 



Mr. H. F. Tagg exhibited specimens of Sclerotinia 

 parasitica (Massee), the tulip disease. 



