TEANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XIV. 



SESSION XLIV. 



Page 



Vale.Iictory Address by the President, Ur T. A. G. Balfodr 1 



On the Growth of the New Zealand Flax Plant [Phormium tenax) in the 



Orkney Islands. By Dr W. Traill 49 



Notes on New Zealand Plants that withstood the severe Winter of 1878-79 at 



Rait Lodge, Trinity, near Edinburgh. By the late William Gokrie, of 



Rait Lodge 52 



On the British- American Species of Genus Viola. By Professor George 



Lawsox, Dalhousie College, Halifax, N.S ti4 



Note on the Flora of Colonsay and Oransay, with List of Plants collected in 



July 1879. By Symington Grieve 66 



Notes of a Tour in the Engadine, with a List of Alpine Plants. By James 



Blaikie, M.A., F.R.S.E., Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools 74 



On the Exact Measurement of Trees. (Part 4.) The influence of the 



Unfavourable Season of 1879 on the Growth of Trees. By Sir R. 



Christison, Bart 71^ 



Remarks on a Specimen of Iih£u»i nobile (Hook. fil. and Thomson) which has 



Flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in the Summer of 



1880. By J. H. Balfour, M.D., LL.D.. Glasg. and Edin., F.R.SS. L. 



and E., Emeritus Professor of Botany, Edinburgh. (Plate I.) {<{? 



The Flowering Plants of New Zealand, aud their Relation to the Insect Fauna. 



By George M. Thomson, F.L.S. Communicated by Professor Balfoik 91 

 Additional Notes on the Hardiness of New Zealand Plants. By the late 



William GoRRiE, President 106 



On the Flowering of Yucca gloriosa, L., in the Royal Botanic Garden. By 



JoH.v S.\DLER, Curator. (Plate II.) 1-20 



On the Septa across tlie Ducts in Bougainvillea glabra and Testudinuria 



eleijhaiitipes. By Professor Dickson, M.D. Plates IK. (a) and III. (6). 121 

 Report on Temperatures and Opeu-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic 



Garden, Edinburgh, from November 1879 till July 1880. By John 



Sadler, Curator 123 



SESSION XLV. 



Valedictory Address by the President, William Gorrie — On obtaining h\ 

 Selection Hardy Varieties or Forms of what are usually termed Hall- 

 Hardy Plants 146 



On the E.xact Measurement of Trees. (Part 5.) 1. The Growth of Wood in 

 1880. 2. The Limit of ihe Growing Months. By Sir Robert Christi- 

 SON, Bart 164 



On the ^lorphology of the Pitcher of Cejjhalotus follicularis. By Alex- 

 ander Dickson, M.D., Professor of Botany in the University of Edin- 

 burgh. (Plates V. and VL) 172 



On Leindophloios, a Genus of Carboniferous Plants. By John M. Macfar- 



LANE, B.Sc. (Plates VIL and VIIL) 181 



Notes on the Action of Some Aniline Dyes on Vegetable Tissues. By John 



M. Macfarlane, B.Sc 190 



The Structure and Division of the Vegetable Cell. By J. M. Macfarlane, 



B.Sc. (Plates IX. and X.) 192 



Notes on the Flora of the Islands of Colonsay and Oronsay. (Part 2.) By 



Symington Grieve 219 



On a Curious Form of Kohl Rabi. Bv John Sadler, Curator, Royal Botanic 



Garden. (Plate XI.) " 22.'. 



Report on Temperatures and Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic 



Garden, from August 1880 till July 1881. By John Sadler, Curator. . 226 



