xii PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Mr. W. W. Smith exhibited many new and interesting 

 Compositae collected by Mr. George Forrest in Yunnan. 



DECEMBER 12, 1912. 

 W. W. Smith, M.A., in the Chair. 

 Mr. J. T. Johnstone was elected a Resident Fellow. 



The Assistant Secretary communicated a paper by Mr. 

 George Brown giving a Survey of the Vegetation of Shotts 

 Parish, Lanarkshire (see p. 101). 



A paper on the seedling of Thysanotus was read on 

 behalf of Professor Bayley Balfour (see p. 185). 



Professor J. B. Bews gave a brief account of the 

 botanical survey work being done in Natal, and indicated 

 the various formations characteristic of that area. 



Mr. James Whytock showed plants of Begonia injured 

 by an insect of the genus Tarsonemus. 



Dr. Malcolm Wilson exhibited specimens of Ophiobolus 

 graminis, Sacc, a disease on wheat. 



Mr. H. F. Tagg showed examples of phyllody of flower 

 parts in Tragopogon pratense, Linn. 



Mr. W. W Smith showed two new Himalayan Primulas 

 from the Chumbi Valley (see p. 118). 



The following plants, many new to cultivation in this 

 country, were shown from the Royal Botanic Garden : — 



Haplopappus scap>osus, Remy, a Chilian undershrub 

 of the general feature of Primula sufrutescens, A. Gray : 

 a good rockery evergreen. Helichrysum Selago, Benth. et 

 Hook, f . : a New Zealand shrubby species showing markedly 

 imbricate as well as spreading leaves. Hydrocotyle 

 hirsuta, Sw. : a small-leaved form from San Domingo, with 

 spikes of whorled sessile flowers. Salvia controversa, 

 Tenore : a curious species from the Mediterranean region 

 with bullate pinnatisect leaves and small blue flowers ; 



