of 3linburgh, Session 18S0-S1. Ixxxi 



11. Veronica Haastii. — Of this I have onl}'- young plants. It is 

 recorded and described by Sir Joseph Hooker as a tortuous decum- 

 bent shrub, with flowers sessile and in pairs, but the corolla not 

 seen. Of it he says — " This and F. epacridea are most remarkable 

 plants of a dilFerent habit from any hitherto described (" Handbook 

 of New Zealand Flora," p. 213). 



12. Veronica Kirkii (Armstrong). — Except that this is another 

 Alpine species from an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet, I have 

 no other information about it. 



13. Veronica lijcopodioides. — This is also a young plant, and so 

 small that I hesitated about submitting it to the meeting. But 

 it is altogether so peculiar, so unlike a phanerogam, and so like a 

 moss, that I could not resist the desire to let you see it. Yet, Sir 

 Joseph Hooker described it as an " erect (?), much-branched, stout 

 shrub, having leaves most densely and closely four-fariously 

 imbricate, having flowers sessile, in small, dense, oblong heads 

 at the ends of the branches." But, altogether, Sir Joseph's de- 

 scription is, in all its particulars, so disconform to the plant I have 

 raised from seeds received with this name, that I must hesitate to 

 say it is correct (see " Hooker's Flora of New Zealand," p. 211). 

 Yet, these New Zealand things undergo such singular transforma- 

 tions that this I now exhibit, still in babyhood, may yet realise the 

 description Sir Joseph gives of it. 



14. Wahlenhergia saxicola (or Bluebell of New Zealand), is fully 

 described in the " Handbook of New Zealand Flora." It is an 

 Alpine and sub- Alpine species, going up to an elevation of 6000 feet. 

 It must, therefore, be quite hardy with us, though I have not yet 

 tried it out all winter, 



IV. List of Plants collected on the Islands of Colonsay and 



Oransay. (Part II.) By Mr Symington Grieve. 



V. Continuation of Report on the effects of the Winter of 



1880-81 on Vegetation in different farts of Scotland, 

 and Temperatures in, and Progress of Open-Air Vegeta- 

 tion at, the Royal Botanic Garden from the beginning 

 of June. By Mr John Sadler, Curator. 



Mr Alexander Buchan, M.A., called attention to the striking 

 parallels of temperature betwixt the Hamilton district and of that 

 around Edinburgh. He accounted for it by a similarity in features 

 of physical geography. 



