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Sisyrinchiuin grandiflorum (Warriston Lodge) January 27 „ 12 



Tussilago bybrida (Cannonraills Cottage) - „ 25 



Orobus cyaneus (Cannonmills Cottage) - February 5 



Alluding to the mildness of the season, Mr. M'Nab exhibited 

 flowering branches of the gooseberry and pear from open walls, and 

 stalks of rhubarb from an open border, measuring nine inches in 

 length, exclusive of leaf, from the gardens of Warriston Lodge. 



Dr. Balfour exhibited a specimen of Polysiphonia subulifera new 

 to Scotland, gathered at Lamlash, Arran, in August, 1850, by Mrs. 

 Balfour. 



Dr. Balfour likewise exhibited, from the palm-house of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, a flowering specimen of Livislona chinensis, taken 

 from a plant thirty-eight feet high, measuring from the floor to the 

 extreme point of the centre leaf The lower portion of this palm is 

 five feet eight inches in circumference. Above this point, the stem is 

 covered to the extent of ten feet by the bases of the fallen leaves, 

 above which fifty-four large, palmated fronds are fully expanded, 

 besides numerous others in various stages of development, and so 

 arranged as to give the head, which is twenty feet in diameter, a 

 somewhat globular shape. This palm has three flowering spadices, 

 standing upright, the largest being three feet six inches long, and 

 more branched than the specimen exhibited. It grows in a box five 

 feet square, and five feet three inches deep, in soil composed of very 

 rough, brown loam, leaf-mould, and sand. 



Dr. Cleghorn exhibited microscopic preparations, by Mr. John 

 Matthews, of the stellate hairs and glands of Rottleria tinctoria, the 

 latter only containing the colouring matter of the dye used by the 

 Mahommcdans. 



