66 Two Rare Plants. [Sess. 



also gave a lantern demonstration of " The Dolomites and 

 Scenes in Austria," from slides prepared by the late Mr F. C. 

 Crawford. 



At a meeting of the Society held on April 22, Dr Traquair, 

 F.RS., gave an interesting communication on " Snake-like 

 Forms among Vertebrata." At the same meeting Mr W. C. 

 Crawford, F.E.S.E., read the "Keport of the Microscopical 

 Section." 



^\\1.—TW0 BABE PLANTS. 

 By Mr JAMES M'ANDREW. 



{Read Oct. 28, 1908.) 



1. Juncus tenuis, Wild. — I found two tufts of this rush one 

 afternoon last August on a piece of waste ground in Morning- 

 side Grove, Edinburgh. Perhaps in less than a year this 

 ground would have been built upon. On the following day I 

 went back to remove the plants, but I found that during the 

 night some cattle had been there, with the result that one of 

 the tufts had been devoured by them. However, I secured 

 the other tuft and dug it up. This rush was one of the late 

 George Don's reputed discoveries, and remained a doubtful 

 Scottish plant until 1887, when I found a colony of it by 

 a roadside near New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire. Subse- 

 quently I found it in other three places in the same county. 

 According to the 9 th edition of the ' London Catalogue of 

 British Plants,' it is recorded for six, and according to the 

 10th edition of the same, for seventeen, vice-counties. This 

 shows that it is spreading. Though I do not consider it a 

 native British plant, but an alien, yet it would be very 

 difficult to say how it has been introduced into this country, 

 though most likely with straw or hay from the Continent. It 

 grows here, as on the Continent, chiefly by roadsides in damp 

 gravelly places, and may also be found about railway stations. 

 It has been gathered in Herefordshire, Kenfrewshire, Stirling- 



