360 REPORTS OP THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



politan violet. 



With 



exhibited a Hybrid Stock, the produce of the Purple Queen 

 Stock, by the polleu of Mathiola sintuita^ having \vell-niarked 

 sinuated leaves ; this latter was not in flower. 



Berberis Darwinii> var, : — from I. Anderson Henry, Esq., 

 Edinburgh. This Berberry had been received from Dr. Jameson, 

 who found it on the western side of Pichincha at an elevation of 

 12,000 feet. With very much the general aspect of B. Danvinii, 

 this alpine form had smaller and less richly coloured flowers 

 than that generally grown, to which it was in every way inferior. 

 It was evidently evergreen; the branches downy; the leaves 

 obovate, wedge-shaped, plane, with three or four long spiny teeth 

 on each margin; and the flowers small, yellow, in short nodding 

 racemes, apparently not opening freely. 



Camellias: — from Mr. William Paxil, Cheshunt Nurseries, 

 Waltham Cross. This was a collection of 37 varieties, cut 

 blooms, and was awarded a Special Certificate. The principal 

 varieties were the following : — Crimson and PtED imbricated : 

 eximia, imhricata, elatlor, Princesse BaecJdocJd ; open-flowered : 

 conspicua semidouble, Donckelaari, eJegans, Double Striped, 

 TriumplianU RosK — Feastii imbricated; Axilica deep flesh, 

 Tricolor deep flesh striped. White Strii>ed — Eclipse, Colvillii 

 striata. General Lafayette, Marguerite Guillon, Blush — Ladij 

 Hume's Blush. White — Double White, fimhriata, Qrundly, 

 ochroleuca, the last named being a creamy white. 



Ajyril 1, 1862. — The Piev. Joshua Dix in the Chair, 

 The following plants were exhibited: 



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Asplenium myriophyllum:— from Messrs. Veitcpi is Son, 



J^xeter and Chelsea; and also from Mr. W. Bull, Chelsea. A 

 very elegant little fern, introduced by M. Linden, and dis- 

 tributed under the name oi A. flahelhdatum, but evidently one of 

 the forms of Asplenmm myriophylhm. The plants formed spread- 

 ing tufts of short-stalked fronds, which were 6 to 8 inches in 

 length, lance-shaped, bipinnate or tripinnate, the pinnules quite 

 small, the lower ones deeply divided into two or three obovate 

 pinnules or lobes, the upper one's oblong or obovate, simple, all 

 being of transparent texture, and having a cellular-looking surface, 

 as if void of cuticle. The rachis was dark coloured, and its point 

 prolonged beyond the upper pinna, and proliferous. It is a 



