CONTENTS. PAGE I. Opening Address by Vice-President ALEXANDER BUCHAN, M.A., F.R.S.E.......................... 1 II. Recent Contributions to the Flora of Iceland. By W. LAUDER LINDSAY, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 17 III. Notice of Plants in Dr Shapter's Garden at Cobham, near Exeter. By Professor BALFOUR. (Plate I.) 23 IV. Experiments with Turnip Seeds. By A. STEPHEN WILSON. (Plate II.)........... 25 V. Remarks on Professor E. Morren's Views of Vegetable Digestion. By I. BAYLEY BALFOUR, Sc.D., M.B., F.L.S. 39 VI. Pezize at Inverleith House. By M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D. (Plate III.) 44 VII. On Fossil Plants from the Calciferous Sandstone around Edinburgh. By C. W. PEACH, A.L.S. 46 VIII. Low Night Temperatures in Relation to Slight Inequalities of Surface. By ALEXANDER BUCHAN, A.M. IX. Notes on the Alpine Flora of Ben Nevis, Inverness-shire. By JOHN SADLER, F.R.P.S.............. X. Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic Garden. By JAMES M-NAE, Curator. XI. A Six Weeks' Botanical Tour in the Levant. By GEORGE MAW, F.L.S., &c............ XII. Notes upon some Plants of the British Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. By F. M. WEBB........................................ APPENDIX (A). Proceedings Statistics of the Botanical Class for 1877............ xxiv XXV xliii CONTENTS. PAGK XV. Enumeration of Polyporus. By M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D. 131 XVII. Remarks by the President, Dr T. A. G. BALFOUR ........ XVIII. Notes of a Continental Tour in August and September $77. By Professor BALFOUR. (Plate VII.).................................... XXI. On the Exact Measurement of Trees and its Applications. By Sir ROBERT CHRISTISON, Bart., Hon. V.-Pt. R.S.E., &c. ..... 217 XXIII. A Journey in 1867 from Monte Video to San Jorge, in the centre of Uruguay, with Remarks on the Vegetation of the Country. (Plate VI.) By DAVID CHRISTISON XXIV. Notes on the Flora of the Neighbourhood of Blantyre, XXV. Open-Air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic Garden. By JAMES M'NAB, Curator 278 XXVI. On the Genus Halophila. By BAYLEY BALFOUR, Sc.D., XXVII. Note on the Effects of Soot on some Coniferæ. By Dr T. A. G. BALFOUR, President 343 |