Ixiv Proceedinr/s of the Botanical Society 



average, the first throe days of March showing 11'' and upwards. 

 Then there was a warm period from Marcli 8 to 19, when the 

 temperature varied from 1° to 10° above the average. Then from 

 March 20 to April 11 the temperature was very much below the 

 average, reaching on one occasion (March 22) fully 1 3° below the 

 average. 



III. On Temperatures from 1st February at the Boyal Botanic 

 Garden, and Effects thereof on Vegetation. By Mr John 

 Sadler, Curator. 



Thursday, 12th May 1881. — Professor Balfour, in the Chair. 



The following Candidate was duly elected a Eesident 

 Fellow : — 



Mr W. IvisoN Macadam, F.I.C, F.C.S., Lecturer on Chemistry, 

 Surgeons' Hall. 



The deaths of Dr Innes of Forres, and Dr Eaxdle Wil- 

 BRAiiAM Falconer of Bath, Non-Eesident Fellows, were noted. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. The Structure and Division of the Vcgctallc Cell (Part IL), 

 with Microscopic Demonstration. By J. M. Maceae- 

 lane, B.Sc. 



IL On the Growth of Crocus sativus, the Source of Hay Saffron 

 in Kashmir. By Dr Downes, medical missionary. 

 Communicated by Mr Isaac Anderson-Henry. 



According to the late Dr Elmslie the native names are Kong-posh, 

 n.m. saffron-flower, and Koiigs, n.ni. saffron ( (7roc«6^ sativus). Cake 

 saffron is largely an adulteration of the stigmata of wallflower 

 and other plants. The Crocus sativus is the only plant grown 

 in Kashmir, the stigmata of which compose hay saffron. The 

 famous saffron fields are situated in the vicinity of Pampur, on a 

 plain fully 50 feet above the valley. The bulbs grow on soil said to 



