BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH XXX111 



The Hon. Secretary communicated a paper by Dr. A. K. 

 Schindler giving a description of two new Legumii 

 p. 285). 



Dr. Borthwick exhibited specimens of Chrysow 

 Rhododend/ri, De Bary. on the spruce, a new record for 



Scotland. 



On behalf of Mr. G. G. Blackwood, a note was read 

 recording the rinding of Vacdnium id i a i no* urn. Linn.. 

 on the hill plateau to the south of the Talla district in 

 Peeblesshire. 



Dr. Malcolm Wilson exhibited specimens of Puccinia 

 Prostii. Maug., attacking the leaves of Tv.lipa sylccstris. 

 Linn. , from the Royal Botanic Garden. Edinburgh. 

 Paccini< i. Prostii has been recorded only once before from 

 Britain by Massee in 1913, who discovered it on cultivated 

 tulips in England. Only teleutospores have up to the 

 present been found in this fungus, but the specimens 

 exhibited contained numerous spermagonia of normal 

 structure in addition to the teleutospor ••-. 



