REPORTS OF FLORAL COMMITTEE, JUNE 28, 



Statice brassic^foliAj 30 Plants, 48 Applicanfci 



Bohn, H. G., Esq. Hubbard, J. G., Esq. i Rigby, J. 



Burrage, Miss Ivery, Mr. J. Rogers, M 



Campbell, James, Esq. Jacob, H. M., Esq. I Sandbach 



Glutton, Mrs. J. Legh,G.ComewaU,E8q. Scott, Jan 



Finnis, Mr. Alderman Leigh, J. S., Esq. j Shrewsbu 



Godson, S.Holmes, Esq. Luscombe, J., Esq. i the Ear 



Gray, Mr. James, McQueen, W. H., Esq. Stuart, M 



Green, E. B., Esq. Massey, T. H., Esq. Walker, 



oodd, BasU T., Esq., 

 Parry, T. G., Esq. M.P. 



Porter, Miss Anne 



CHSioiDEs, 20 Plants, 51 Applicants. 

 Herring^ G., Esq. | Scott, James, Esq. 



harles, Esq. j Sidley, Colonel 



Lloyd, 



Muggeriage, oir. a. i otewart, ii. u. murr; 



Nash, D,, Esq. Esq. 



Parry, T. G., Esq. I Stuart, C. Pole, Esq. 



R ee ves, j'.' R.^ Esq. ! WaS, Thos^.^Esq. 



XL. EEPOKTS OF THE FLOEAL COMMITTEE. 



The Secretary reported the following further donation to the 

 Experimental Department at Chiswick : — 



Messrs. J. and C. Lee, Hammersmith : 1 3 varieties of Ver- 

 benas and 2 new Fuchsias. 



The plants and flowed exhibited were the following :— 

 Athyrium Filix-foemina var. plumosum ( Moore ) : — from 

 Messrs. Stansfield & Son, Todmorden. This is perhaps the 

 most remarkable and beautiful form of hardy Fern yet 

 known, not even excelled by the fine tasselled kinds which have 

 now become common. Its chief peculiarity consists in the 

 elegant cutting of the parts of the frond, producing a singular 



It was found in 1857 by Mr. J. Hobsfai.l, near Skipworth, in 

 Yorkshire, and has been abundantly increased by Messrs. 

 Stansfield. The fronds, on the plant exhibited, were upwards 

 of 2 feet in height, broadly lanceolate in outline, and distinctly 

 tripiunate. The pinnae were nearly 6 inches long, and 2^ inches 



