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still must be regarded as a garden-escape. Lepidium Smithii 

 was also noted on the Leader side. 



In the unavoidable absence of the President, whose letter 



of apology was duly read and sustained, Mr 

 Club Wm. B. Boyd, Faldonside, occupied the chair 



Dinner. at the dinner held in the Red Lion Hotel at 



half-past two o'clock. After an excellent repast 

 and the usual toasts, Mr Ferguson, Duns, exhibited a variety 

 of exquisite blooms of Calochortus, an exclusively North 

 American genus, distributed over the Western slopes of the 

 Rocky Mountains, from California to the extreme North 

 of British Columbia. He explained that, though catalogued 

 by the florists as "Mariposa lilies," and "Butterfly" and 

 " Peacock Tulips," they were more closely allied to the 

 Fritillarias than to any other European genus ; and that, 

 while not perfectly hardy in this country, they could be 

 wintered and flowered with only a slight protection. 



