BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH Vll 



Mr. Robert Lindsay exhibited flowers of Saxifraga 

 oppositifolia from the Scottish mountains, and compared 

 them with the larger and paler flowered Pyrenean variety, 

 flowers of which were also shown. 



Mr. James Whytock exhibited cut blooms of a hybrid 

 Daphne characterised by its remarkable odour. 



Mr. E. A. EoBERTSON, M.A., B.Sc, read a communication 

 entitled : A Discussion of the Symbiotic Theory of Proto- 

 plasm as stated by Giglio Tos. 



Meeting of the Society, April 11, 1900. 

 Mr. Symington Grieve, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. "Whytock exhibited twigs of Veronica Epacroides, 

 and flowering branches of the following species : — Cornus 

 variegatus, Edgeworthia papyri/era, Spiroea Thunbergii, 

 Coryopsis spicata, Cornus elegantissima, Forsythia Sieboldii, 

 Nuttalia cerasiformis, Buxus romiarinifolia, Andromeda 

 polifolia major. 



Mr. Symington Grieve exhibited specimens of Didyviodon 

 recurvifolius and Aulocomnion turgidum from Craig More, 

 Glen Lochy, as well as specimens of the latter from 

 Strobinnian. 



Dr. Wm. Watson exhibited a large collection of Scottish 

 Mosses. 



Mr. Murray read a communication entitled : A Moss 

 Hunt in Argyllshire, and exhibited specimens of the species 

 referred to. 



Meeting of the Society, May 9, 1901. 

 The Rev. David Paul, M.A., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. Boyd, of Faldonside, exhibited specimens of 

 Gyromitria (sp.), sent by Mr. J. Boyd, of Cherrytrees, 

 Roxburghshire, where the plant has appeared for many 

 years in an outside fernery. 



