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likely to prove hardy. Echeveriu Pringlei, Rose. Senecio 

 Burchelli, DC. : a shrubby dense foliage-plant with bright 

 yellow flowers from the Cape. Omphalodes cornifolia, 

 Lehm. : a pretty blue-flowered plant from Asia Minor 

 requiring a dry sunny position. Romanzoffia Suksdorfii, 

 Greene : in appearance somewhat resembling a compact 

 Saxifraga with dense green foliage, and flowers which are 

 a very pure white. 



MARCH 13, 1913. 

 Sir Archibald Buchax-Hepburx, Bart., in the Chair. 



The President intimated the death, since the previous 

 meeting, of Dr. Paul Ascherson, who had been a corre- 

 sponding member of the Society since 1878 ; and of Dr. 

 J. J. Kirk Duncanson, who had been a Resident Fellow 

 since 1865. 



A paper on the Primulas of the Sinensis Section : Part I., 

 was read on behalf of Professor Bayley Balfour (to be 

 published in part iii. of this volume). 



Mr. George Bryce read a paper on The Wild-Rubber 

 Country of Madagascar, which was illustrated by lantern 

 views of the restricted area where one of the species of 

 Landolpliia abounds. The vines, owing to the geological 

 formation, are slender, and the yield scarcely repays the 

 labour expended. 



Mr. E. Holmes Smith read a paper on the Growth and 

 Preparation cf Flax Fibre in Belgium, illustrated with 

 lantern slides. 



Dr. R. S. MacDougall showed specimens of the fruits 

 of the red currant infected with the American Gooseberry 

 Mildew, Sphaerotheca mors-uvae, and pointed out that this 

 is the first time this fruit has been recorded in this country 

 as attacked by the fungus. 



Mr. R. C. Davie gave an account of Strut iotes Aloides, 

 Linn., the water soldier, in a small loch near CriefF, where 

 it was planted in 1861 (see p. 180). 



