CXVl 



Proceedings of the Botanical Society 



III. Recent Additions to the University Herha.rium. By Mr 

 Andrew Taylor. 



Amongst the Donations received three deserve special mention : — 



1. Fungi sent hj Joseph Bancroft, M.D., from Australia. 



2. A collection made by Surgeon-Major Aitchison in 1880, in 



the Kuram Valley, Afghanistan. 



3. Dried Plants from Shir6 Highlands, East Africa, from John 



Buchanan, Associate. 



IV. A specimen of Polemonium cceruleum, from the garden of 

 G. H. Potts, Esq., Fettes Mount, Lasswade, was shown. 



Professor Dickson pointed out its broadly fasciated stem with 

 thickly clustered flowers along its edge-like extremity. This form 

 has now come up for the second season. 



V. Professor Dickson exhibited a specimen of Cheiranthus 

 Cheiri, var. gynantherus, and also a proliferous rose, where 

 the second flower, instead of springing from the organic 

 extremity of the floral axis, i.e., the bottom of the 

 hollowed-out receptacle, springs from its margin in the 

 neighbourhood of the insertion of the corolla and stamens. 



VI. On a peculiarly branching Silver Fir, groivn at Conishead 

 Priory, Cumberland. By Mr John Sadler (Plate XIII.). 



This silver fir (Picea ^oectina.ta), with large lateral branches, was 

 photographed by Mr George Panton, who obtained the following 

 measurements of the tree, which has since been blown down : — 



Circumference of main stem at 1 foot from ground, 14 ft. 4 in. 



„ „ 3 feet „ 13 „ 4 „ 



M „ where the large arm 



projects from trunk, . . . . . 12 „ 4 „ 



Length of arm trunk to elbow, . . . . 19 „ „ 



Circumference of arm close to trunk, . . . 8 „ 8 „ 



)> J, at the middle, . . 8 „ „ 



„ „ at the elbow, . . 8 „ 3 „ 



Probable height of main trunk, . . . . 76 „ „ 



„ erect stem of arm from elbow, . 65 „ „ 



The tree was supported by a M^ooden prop at the elbow. 



