BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH V 



Mr. W. Caldwell Geawford read a communication 

 entitled : A Short Account of the Botanical Congress at 

 Paris, in October 1900. 



Meeting of the Society, January 10, 1901. 

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



Mr. William Wallace, B.Sc, proposed by Mr. Pt. A. 

 EOBERTSON, M.A., B.Sc, and seconded by Mr. James A. 

 Terras, B.Sc, was balloted for, and duly elected a Eesident 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., exhibited specimens 

 of Statice lyclinidifolia, de Girard, a Sea Lavender, new to 

 the Channel Islands, and not previously recorded from 

 within the limits of the British flora ; discovered by Mr. 

 Cecil E. P. Andrews, in Alderney, in August 1900, and 

 lent for exhibition by Mr. James Groves, F.L.S. 



Mr. Robert Lindsay exhibited a plant of Frimula 

 Jiorihiinda, var. Isabcllina, nearly white, and very distinct 

 from the type plant, some flowers of which were also 

 exhibited for comparison. 



Mr. Eobert Lindsay also exhibited flowers of Eranthis 

 Hyemalis and Petasites fragrans, from plants blooming in 

 the open air in his garden at Corstorphine. 



Mr. Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., read a communica- 

 tion entitled : Note on the Distribution of Glaucium fiavum, 

 Crantz. The paper was illustrated by specimen plants 

 from the various Scottish localities. 



Mr. Symington Grieve communicated a paper by Mr. 

 Symers M. Mac Vicar, entitled : The Comparative State of 

 the Flora of the West Highlands during the Eighteenth 

 Century and at the Present Time. 



