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House) in this neip;hbourhood, which seems to me of exceptional size. 

 About 2 feet from the ground, and just below the point of division of 

 the trunk, I found that it measured just 7 feet. I saw it in flower 

 last year ; and it is still a thriving tree. I thought it might be worth 

 mention to you. In this quarter, I believe, there is not its equal." 



Specimens were exhibited by Miss Sibbald of the Glen 

 School-house, now Mrs Dodds, Bowden, as found by Miss Ida 

 Wallace, Manse, Traquair, and herself, of supposed Lycopodium 

 complnnalnm, from near Traquair. Miss Sibbald had also got 

 an example from John Biukham, Mr Craw's chief shepherd at 

 Rawburn, in the Lammermoors. I wrote to him, and he sent 

 specimens, through Mr Craw, from Cattle-shiels, a farm near 

 the Lesser Dirrington Law. The following letter refers to the 

 Cattle-shiels examples, and is addressed to William H, Boyd, 

 Esq., to whom I sent them for the Eev. E. S. Marshall's 

 opinion. 



Milford Vicarage, Godalming, June 3, 1892. 



"Dear Mr Boyd, — Many thanks for your interesting letter and the 

 enclosed plants. The Lijcopodium is L. alpinum, L. var. decipiens, Linn., 

 and is the L. complanatum of British authors, but not of Linne's 

 herbarium! The true L. complanatum has still to be found in Britain, 

 where its appearance is far from unlikely. I have gathered the same 

 form as that enclosed up the A lit Dubh Ghalair, near Killin ; near 

 Bonar Bridge, E. Ross ; on the mountains near Fort William, and in 

 Mar Forest." 



EDWARD S. MARSHALL. 



Dr Stuart and Mr Boyd exhibited several good flowers ; Mr 

 Winning, a sandstone, shaped like a coulter, but it would not 

 pass muster as a genuine antique ; and Mr Walter Laidlaw a 

 bricik like a common one, and a piece of Andernach trachyte 

 from the Roman station at Cappuck. 



The following were proposed as new members — (1) Hon. 

 Mrs Mary Gavin Baillie Hamilton, Langton. (2) Rev. James 

 Todd, B.D., South U.P. Church, Duns. (3) Thomas A. Munro 

 Somers, Solicitor, Duns. (4) R. Addison Smith, S.S.O., Edin- 

 burgh. (5) R. Colley Smith, Ormiston House, Roxburgh. (6) 

 Adam Laing, Solicitor, Hawick. (7) Andrew L. Allan, Riverside 

 Mill, Selkirk. (8) Ralph Richardson, F.R.S.E., Gattonside 

 House, Melrose. (9) Rev. John Mair, D.D., Southdean, 

 Hawick. (10) John Scott, Synton, Selkirk. 



There attended this meeting : — Provost T. Craig-Brown, 

 Selkirk ; Mr James Wood, Galashiels ; Rev. George Gunn, 



