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§ 8. Branching Wallflowee-leaved, 

 This group has the character of § 3 ; but with the leaves 

 glabrous as in § 7. The only variety in the collection referable 

 here, and this of good quality, was — 



''Light Blue'' (Carter) : pale purple or bluish-lilac. 



§ 9. Spike-flowered Wallflower-leaved. 

 This has a narrow unbranched or very shortly branched spike- 

 like inflorescence, similar to that which occurs in § 6. The 

 variety mentioned below was distinct and handsome— 



''White Wallflower-leaved" (Carter): white, dwarfish, and 



The varieties mentioned above under the names of Dwarf 

 Crimson (§ 2) ; Victoria Scarlet, and White Branching (§ 3) ; 

 Dwarf Crimson, and Sulphur (§ 7); and White Wallflower-leaved 

 (§ 9), are stocks of first-rate quality and highly deserving of 

 general cultivation, 



( Joshua Dix, Chairman. 



Signed. 



{ Tho:mas IMooRE, Secretary. 



XLVII.— REPOETS OF THE FLORAL COM- 

 MITTEE. 



{Cmtinued from p. 277.) 

 September 27, I860. — The Rev. Joshua Dix in the Chair. 

 The foUowing were the subjects exhibited on this occasion : — 

 Taxus baccata, var. erecta :— from Mr. W. Cbowdeb, nursery- 

 man, Homcastle, This was a distinct and very elegant form of 

 the common Yew tree, remarkable for the regular and compact 

 pyramidal or cone-shaped figure of the plants. Those which were 



tapermg i 



I slender 

 point ; the branches were erect, close, and regular, and clothed 

 with shortish recurved dark-coloured bluntish leaves. The plants, 

 two of which were unpruned, showed no indication of the bunchy 

 growth observable in other erect-growing kinds. Compared with 



