92 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Scotland and those coming from the Great Geyser, 3. Some account of Bo- 
tanical Travels in Oregon. By Mr. Kobert Brown. Communicated by Mr. 
J. Sadler. In this communication, dated Victoria, Vancouver's Island, 9th 
February, 1866, Mr. Brown gave some account of his botanical travels in Ore- 
gon, between 2nd September and 9th October, 1865. The part of the country 
travelled embraced from Rogue River Valley over the mountains to Crescent 
City in California, and from thence by San Francisco to Victoria. He noted 
the various features of the country and manners of the people, and recorded 
the more interesting plants he met with. 4. Notes regarding Polypodium cal- 
careum as a Scottish Plant. By Mr. Sadler. Mr. Sadler stated that the dis- 
covery of Polypodium calcareum near Aberdeen, in 1861, by Mr. John Sim, 
and near Aberfeldy, in 1866, by Mr. Ramsay, and recorded in the Transactions 
of the Society, had given rise to doubts in the minds of some as to the plant 
being indigenous in these localities. He had investigated the subject as far a* 
possible, but could find no traces of its having been introduced in either in- 
stance. The Aberdeen plants were found growing in an old limestone quarry 
on Scotston Moor, and the Aberfeldy plants abundantly on decomposed mica- 
ceous stone. Professor Dickie was inclined to believe that the Aberdeen fern 
had been planted, and Mr. Taylor, of Allan Vale, says that a gentleman's gar- 
dener planted Asplenium Trichomanes on the wall at Scotston Gate, where it 
now grows plentifully. Mr. Sadler exhibited specimens of the plant from both 
localities, and concluded by reading extracts from letters on the subject which 
he had lately received from Mr. Ramsay, Mr. Sim, and Mr. Taylor. 4. Report 
on the State of Open Air Vegetation in the Royal Botanic Garden. By Mr. 
M<Nab. The first snowdrop seen in bloom was on the 31st day of January, 
and that only on a south exposed grass bank, where the frost got speedily out, 
but in all other situations throughout the garden it was the 5th day of Fe- 
bruary before they began to show flowers profusely. The first flower of Evan- 
this hyemalis and Ilepatica triloba appeared on the 2nd of February ; Sisyrin- 
chium grandiflorum on the 4th of February ; Leucojum vernum and Oalanthus 
plicatus on the 5th of February ; Relleborus purpurascens and Arabis albida 
on the 6th of February ; and Crocus Susianus on the 11th of February. Mr. 
J. F. Duthie sent specimens of Centunculus minimus, collected at North San- 
nox, Arran, in September, 1866, the first time it had been met with in that is- 
land. Thomas Patton, Esq., presented two cones of Pinus monticola, ripened 
at Glenalmond, Perthshire. One cone was of a red colour, while the other 
was of a yellowish-brown. They were taken from different trees, the cones of 
which are invariably the same every year as the two exhibited. 
