BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XXV 



A paper was read on behalf of the Hon. W. R. Riddell 

 giving an account of the pharmacopoeia of the botanical 

 physician eighty years ago (see p. 226). 



Mr. W. W. Smith gave an account of the vegetation of 

 Sikkim, illustrated by numerous lantern slides. 



Mr. James Fraser showed specimens of Lino via rubri- 

 folia, Rob. et Cast., Ammochloa pungens, Desf., Vulpia 

 cynosuroides, Boiss., Arrhcnatherum erianthum, Boiss. et 

 Reut., from Midlothian; and Symphytum peregrimim, 

 Ledeb., from nine Scottish counties (see p. 234-). 



Specimens of Bryum attanticv/m, Solms., were exhibited 

 on behalf of Dr. Stirtox, which he had obtained last year 

 at Plockton, Ross-shire, a new record for Great Britain. 



Mr. R. C. Davie showed specimens of Inula Helenium. 

 Linn., a new record for Mull. 



The following living plants in flower were shown from 

 the Ro}'al Botanic Garden : — 



Alternanthera paronych ioides, St. Hil.: a South American 

 plant of creeping habit and small green foliage. Buddleia 

 asiatica, Lour.: a not quite hardy species, with fragrant 

 white flowers and smallish silvery foliage, from subtropical 

 Asia. Dracocephalurn tanguticum, Maxim: this species 

 from China is perhaps one of the best autumn plants for 

 its profusion of bloom, and is suitable either for the rockery 

 or border. Euryops virgineus, Less., South Africa: a 

 tender shrub, hardy in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, 

 flowering out of doors at Edinburgh. Genista salditana, 

 Pomel : an Algerian plant requiring protection in the 

 north, but perhaps hardy in the southern parts of the 

 country. Gentiana rhodaniha, Franch.: of good bushy 

 habit and a vigorous grower : the flowers are of a pinky- 

 white colour, with a fringed corolla : Yunnan. Hydrocotyle 

 hirsute,, Sw. : a peculiar umbellifer from the island of St. 

 Domingo. Jasminum lineare, R. Br.: a rather pretty 

 plant with fine foliage and white flowers. Lepidiwm 

 piscidiwm, Forst. f. : a plant from the Pacific Islands said 

 to be used by the natives for catching fish ; the plant 



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