EEPORTS OF THE FLOllAL COMMITTEE, 



May Q8, ISGl.— The Rev. Joshua Dix in the chair. 

 The following donations were reported : — 

 Mr. Bull, F.R.H.S., Chelsea— 13 plants of Agathea coelestis 



fol. variegatis. 

 Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton— 15 Fuchsias, 30 Petunias, 21 



Mr. W. Dean, Shipley — 4 Pelargoniums, 2 Fuchsias, 2 Helio- 

 Mr. Price, Airesfield, Pendleton— 5 Pelargoniums, 1 Fuchsia, 



Mr. G. Smith, Hornsey Road — 4 Pelargoniums, 1 Calceolaria, 

 1 Petunia, 15 Verbenas, 7 Fuchsias. 



Mr. ScoiT, Crewkerne — 18 Fuchsias, 34 Geraniums, 4 Helio- 

 tropes, 70 Verbenas, 2 Salvias, 2 Tropaeoleums, Arctotis 

 grandiflora. 



The plants exhibited on the occasion were ns follows : — 

 Todea supsrba:— from Messrs. Veitch & Son, Exeter and 

 Chelsea. This beautiful fern, one of the loveliest of its race, 

 was awarded a First-Class Certificate. Though not fully 

 developed as to size, it was quite enough so to prove it to be a 

 plant of exquisite beauty. Its fronds were about nine inches 

 long, spreading, and gracefully arching; the pinufe crowded, 

 and cut into narrow segments, which instead of lying flat in one 

 plane, as iu T. hymenophylloides, are turned upwards, and bristle 

 over the whole surface. The texture is transparent' green, as iu 



film ferns. The fronds, instead of having a long naked stipes, as 

 in tlie species already referred to, are feathered down to the very 

 base, the outline being truly lanceolate. This- fern, sometimes 

 called Leptopteris superha, is a native of New Zealand, where it 

 appears to be very rare. 



lomaria Fraseri :_frora Mr. SxANcisHr F.R.H.S., Bagshot. 

 This handsome fern is also a native of New Zealand. Mr. 

 Fraser, after whom it is" named, mentions having there seen 

 tiie slender stems 10 feet high, while Dr. Hooker and Mr. 

 Brackenridge speak of it as ordinarily from 2 to 3 feet high, 



the party who accompanied the latter gentleman always spoke of 

 it as the " miniature tree fern." The plant now exhibited was 



