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after. It will as be seen that, though the official excursions of the 
Society were iOt so successful as they might have been, yet as regards 
the explosion of Perthshire the season has not been unprofitable, 
and that it has shown that the Flora of the county is not yet exhausted. 
[Note. —Since this remark on the Ben Lawers Agropyrum was 
written, the plant of it, which I have in cultivation, having grown 
strong and flowered, proves that it is a species distinct both from 
A. violaceum and A. repens , though apparently somewhat intermediate 
between the two. At the same time it is identical with Triticum 
alpinum , Don MS., of which an original specimen is before me. 
Since Don’s name for the species is a manuscript one only, and has, 
moreover, been variously allotted, I propose to call the Ben Lawers 
grass Agropyrum Doniamim , thus associating with Don’s name 
a flowering plant of the Scottish hills. 
From A. violaceum A. Donianum may be distinguished by the 
root which produces creeping stolons, by the longer and narrower 
glumes and lower pale, and the more acute upper pale whose ribs 
are less strongly, but more closely, pectinate-ciliate, and are produced 
into short projecting scabrid awns (best seen in fruiting specimens). 
In A. violaceum , so far as I have seen, the ribs gradually vanish on 
each side of the tip of the pale, and do not form awns even in 
fruiting specimens. 
A. repens differs from A. Donianum in having less rigid and less 
scabrous leaves, in having the upper pale emarginate at the tip, and 
the ribs not forming awns, &c. A. caninum is still more remote. 
In it the upper pale is acute, but the ribs are not produced into 
awns.—F. Buchanan White.] 
The following paper was read :— 
“Notes on some Additions to the Birds and Nests recently 
placed in the Museum.” By Colonel H. M. Drummond Hay, 
C.M.Z.S., B.O.U., Hon. Curator of the Museum. (See Trans., 
Vol. I., p. 91.) 
13th December, 1888. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
Miss Lizzie Malloch, Mrs. James Sherwill, and John Henderson 
were elected Ordinary Members. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “Geological Notes on Loch Carron and West Ross-shire.” 
By R. Dow. (See Trans., Vol. I., p. 98.) 
2. “Additions to the Flora of the Woody Island in 1888.” By 
William Barclay. (See Trans., Vol. I., p. 102.) 
