26 THE FASCIATION OF PLANTS.. 
comb, the form of Sedum reflexum, and the particular stocks . 
of Lilium Martagon album. 
Here is a theory which I advance for consideration. It 
may best be put by asking a question. Is this fasciation not 
sgmewhat analogous to the process of nature which has 
evolved the Polyanthus, the Auricula, and many other flowers 
which have sent up a stem bearing a head of flowers? It is 
possible that it is the same, but that Dame Nature has had 
her methods interfered with in some hidden way. I do not 
pretend to be sure about anything in connection with this 
question of fasciation, which is simply the union of certain 
cells which under normal conditions would have been pro- 
duced independently. I am, therefore, introducing the ques- 
tion of fasciation in plants with the view of interesting others 
in these phenomena of plant life which are difficult to solve, 
but which cannot escape our notice when once brought before 
us. 
11th February, 1916. 
Chairman—G. MacLeop STEwartT, Vice-President. 
Some Galloway Products. 
By Rev. C: H. Dick, B.D., Moffat. 
In these days when attention is being directed to the re- 
sources of our country, it is interesting to recall certain pro- 
ducts with which the name of Galloway has been associated in 
the past. By the nature of the case such a review must consist 
mainly of quotations from old writers who have alluded to them. 
“Know we not Galloway nags?’’ says Pistol m The 
Second Part of King Henry the Fourth. King Robert is said 
to have been mounted on one when he met Sir Henry de Bohun 
on the field of Bannockburn—the breed was well adapted for 
that rapid manceuvring by which the King evaded the onslaught 
of his assailant and then slew him. William Lithgow, the 
author of The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and 
painfull Peregrinations of long nineteene Yeares, whose obser- 
