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Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society. Edinburgh. 
Vol. XVII, Parti. 
Balfour : Obituary notices of Dr. James Gilchrist, Dumfries. 
Taylor : Obituary notices of C. W. Peach, Robert Gray, William 
Williamson Newbould, and Edouard Morren. 
Cleghorn : Obituary notices of William Traill, M.D. 
Howie : Obituary notices of John Jeffrey, Balsusney. 
Landsborough : Australian and New Zealand trees in Arran. 
Webster : Notes on three rare Carnarvonshire plants. 
Buchanan White : On a supposed new British species of Sagina. 
Simson : Notes on the finding of Trichomanes radicans in Arran in 
August 1863. 
Landsborough : Additional note on the occurrence of Ti'ichomanes 
radicans in Scotland. 
Scott Elliot : Recent researches in regard to the vegetable cell-wall. 
Bennett : Notes on British species of Epilobium. 
Christison : On the monthly increase in girth of trees at the Royal 
Botanic Garden and at Craigiehall, near Edinburgh. 
Craig : Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Glen Spean 
and Pitlochrie in 1886. 
Wilson : On dimorphism of flowers of Wachendorjia paniculata (PI. I). 
Traill : On the fructification of Sphacelaria radicans , Plarv. and Sph. 
olivacea, J. Ag. (PI. II). 
Norman : The indigenous Flora of Madeira, in special relation to its 
peculiar plants. 
Scott Elliot : On the movement of water in plants. 
Sewell : Facts regarding the morphology and affinities of certain genera 
of the order Scrophulariaceae. 
Mann : On the mechanism for fertilisation in the flowers of Bolbophyllum 
Lobbii (PI. III). 
Bennett and Grieve : List of new and rare plants presented to the 
Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden. 
Grieve : List of Hepatics and Mosses collected in the Island of Rum, 
Hebrides, during July 1884. 
Moir : Experimental planting in Central Africa. 
Allan : Report on a visit to Applecross by the members of the summer 
camp, 1886. 
Lindsay : Report on temperature and open-air vegetation at the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from July 1886 to June 1887. 
Part II. 
Traill : Marine Algae of Elie. 
Janczewski : Fruits of Anemone . 
Bennett : Additions to the Scottish Flora, 1887. 
Craig : Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to Hardanger 
district of Norway, 1887. 
Gray and Hinxman : Flora of West Sutherland. 
Couts : Visit to Glenure. 
Lindsay : Heterophylly in Veronicas (with Plate). 
Christison : Annual increase in girth of trees. 
Sewell : Colouring matter of leaves and flowers. 
Fothergill : Leaves of climbing plants. 
Obituaries of Sir Walter Elliot, Asa Gray, and A. de Bary. 
