REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE ON GENETICS. 49 
Exxuisit oF Rare Puants sy W. T. Hinpmarsh, F.L.S., Alnwick. 
Mr. Hindmarsh sent magnificent illustrations of the four following 
plants, which though not hybrids excited great interest amongst all who 
saw them :— 
1. Primula deorwm, a very rare and beautiful primrose from Bulgaria, 
the blossoms of a very rich purple-violet and leayes of deep bluish-green. 
(Fig. 7.) 
2. Shortia uniflora, a rare plant from Northern Japan with wax-like 
blush-coloured flowers and dull green leathery leaves haying very 
Fic. 8.—SHORTIA UNIFLORA. 
prominent veins of a lighter shade. The leaves from August onwards 
turn a most brilliant and beautiful red, veined and shaded. It must not 
be confused with the more often mei with S. galacifolia, which, although 
it resembles wniflora closely, is a less beautiful plant. (Fig. 8.) 
3. Rhodothamnus Chamecistus, a plant very closely related to 
Fhododendron and not essentially rare, being a native of the Tyrol, but 
exceedingly rare in the wonderfully floriferous condition which fig. 9 
shows, more than 1,000 blossoms, of a rosy-pink colour, being open at 
one time. (Fig. 9.) 
4. Hremurus Elwesii, probably the finest of all the Hremuwrus, and 
apparently about midway between EH. robustus and ZL. himalaicus, but 
without any sign of being actually a hybrid. It is of a beautiful flesh- 
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