PROCEEDINGS. 



IV.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



Various Correas, Gesnera zebrina, Selago distans, Linum 



tri"ynura, Thyrsacanthus rutilans, a promising scarlet-flowered 



plant, and the following salad vegetables, viz , Chou de Naples 



and Romaine Verte Maraichere Lettuces, both from frames ; the 



Corn Salads Mache ronde and Mache dltalie, Scarlet Short-top 



Radish from frames ; Curled Cress, White Mustard, American 



Cress, Cole's Superb Red and Sutton's Superb Pink Celery, a 



very good variety ; also Celeri Court hatif, very full and solid, 



and by many preferred to the last-named kinds : Curled Chervil, 



French, Garden, and Broad-leaved Sorrel; in the late severe 



weather these required to be taken up out of the border and 



placed in a frame with a little heat ; also Oseille de Belleville, a 



milder sort than the other Sorrels ; together with Burnet, 



Chicoree fine d'Ete, an excellent curled Endive for all seasons ; 



and Scarole a fleur blanche, which blanches exceedingly pure — 



like ivory ; Betterave rouge plat de Bassano, grosse longue de 



Hollande (Van Houtte), rouge de Castlenaudary, which is the most 



generally esteemed ; and Barret's Crimson and Cattel's Blood-red 



Beet. 



v.— BOOKS PRESENTED. 



The Athenseum for December. From the Editor. 



Bombay Maguetical and Meteorological Observations for 1S49 ; and Icones Plantarum 



Asiaticai-um, Part 3. By the late W. Griffith. From the Hon. the Court of 



Directors of the East India Company. 



February 21st, 1854. (Regent Street.) 

 I.— ELECTIONS. 

 S. Dickenson, Esq., Tulse Hill ; H. Pouncey, Esq., Finchley ; 

 and W. Wilson, Esq., 8, Lansdowne Terrace, Notting Hill. 



XL— AWARDS. 

 Knightian Medal : — 



To Messrs. Veitch, for Cypripedium villosum, a new addition 

 to the genus from Moulmein, where it was found by Mr. T. 

 Lobb, at an elevation of 5000 feet above the level of the sea. 

 It much resembles C. insigne, differing more especially in 

 the following particulars : the scape is shorter than the 



