BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XXXI 



young state. Primula Inayati, Duthie : a North-west 

 Himalayan plant nearly allied to P. purpurea. Pemettya 



furens, Klotzsch. : a hardy Chilian shrub suitable for the 

 rockery. 



APRIL 9, 1914. 



R. Stewart MacDuugall. M.A., D.Sc, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. Scott Dodd was elected a Resident Fellow. 



Mr. E. J. A. Stewart and Mr. Donald Patton read a 

 paper on the Flora of the Culbin Sands. 



A paper was read on behalf of Dr. Stirton on 

 Additional Mosses from West Ross-shire (see p. 241). 



Mr. \V. W. Smith read papers on an Himalayan variety 

 of PlwmhageWa micrantha, Spach (see p. 277). and on 

 a tuberous Senecio from China (see p. 279). 



Dr. Borthwick exhibited specimens of Nectria cucur- 

 bitula, Ft., which is known to do considerable damage to 

 spruce plantations on the continent, and whose distribution 

 seems to be fairly general in the midlands of Scotland. 



The following plants in rlower were shown from the 

 Royal Botanic Garden : — 



Rhododendron fastigiatum, Franch. : a dwarf plant of a 

 few inches in height with small foliage and bright purple 

 flowers about half an inch in diameter. Rhododend/ron 

 lutescens, Franch.: a yellow-flowered species of shrubby 

 habit, with bronzy foliage, also from China. Rhododendron 

 David8orbianum, Render et Wilson. Rhododendron poly- 

 lepis, Franch. Roetilera Forrestii, Diels. : an interesting 

 Gesnerad of neat habit with hairy foliage and yellow 

 flowers. Primula redolens, Balf. til. : a new species of 

 the section Suffruticosae, closely allied to P. Forrestii, 

 Balf. fil. : this was raised at the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, from seed presented by A. K. Bullev, Esq., 

 collected by F. Kingdon Ward on the borders of China and 

 Tibet. 



