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CHRONICLE. 
į Оғсемвев 14, 1895, 
714 
inflorescence, The best situation for it is the inter- 
mediate-house, and in its vene it has the same 
requirements as the Acineta: 
Our ALMANACK.—Secretaries of M. 
Societies and others, are earnestly requested to 
of any kind for 1896, for insertion in the Almanack, 
to be am in our issue for January 4. 
LINN —Qn the occasion of the 
mentis "held on Nee, December 5, C. B. 
F RS., President, in the chair, Messrs, 
attention n to а portrait of the late Prof. Babing- 
by his widow to the society. 
Marie, seconded by Mr. A 
of thanks to Mrs, Babington was unanimously 
accorded. Prof. Stewart offered some remarks on 
the types of the axes of certain Gorgonaces, 
in which he referred chiefly to the im 
otherwise of the presence of spica cules in the axes, and 
exhibited the epider species in illustration of his 
remarks :—Paragorgia arborea, Melitodes ochracea, 
rgia subero rione Corallium rubrum, Caligorgia 
verticillata, кеш» guadalupensis, eas ne 
Plexaurella crassa, and Eunicella verruco Som 
ticism was — by Dr. Marie, chiefly in re- 
to the structure of Gorgonia flabellum and 
Gorgonia setosa. Mr. „Маг tin Woodward exhibited 
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Amceba attacked by а parasitic fungus. 
G. C. Drace communicated a paper оп a new 
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00 stiff pedicels "cr Атар right 
and left of the main rachis, each bearing at its 
extremity 3—5 sessile, or, in some cases, shortly- 
atalked spikelets, giving an interrupted and compact 
ippearance to the wh ole inflorescence, which is made 
up of two rows of clustered grou 3—5 spike- 
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peared to have been described 
or referred to by Professor Hackel as Bromus mollis 
var. interruptus ; but Mr. Druce considered that it was 
sufficiently distinct to be entitled to specific rank. 
He had found it growing abundantly in a field of 
Vetches near Upton, fag and specimens had 
been examined ^ eadington, Oxford, and 
Баг a чна which followed, 
Dr. O. Stapf weed the literature of the subject, 
and gave reasons for regarding the so-called new 
of Bromus 
Critical remarks were made also by Mr. 
Rendle, who were inclined 
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collected during the 
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Voyage of H.M S. Investigator." 
NATIONAL . CHRYSANTHEMUM Society.—A 
well-attended meeting of the General Committee 
took place at Anderton’s Hotel, Fieet Street, on the 
9;h inst, 
, Mr, NNE in the chair. After dealing 
е correspondence, the е reported 
that the am of prize-money awarded at the 
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the same exhi- 
rc It was decided to recommend 
general meeting the appoin ntment of 
ожар) of two only, as at present; 
nually, and be eligible for re-election 
increase is made necessary by 
. The Secretary brought 
p а recommendation to the General Committee 
from the J ubilee Sab- committee, that for the future, 
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21 inches in depth from Tack oF нае the holes for 
the tubes to be 7 inches apar t from centre to 
centre; the height at the back to ra 7 inches, This 
was carried, It will be understood that as the size 
for a twelve-bloom board only is given, it is yet in- 
koe to apply to * * collecti ions. It was 
anged that th 
— on February 24; уез audit of the accounts being 
held a week previously, It was agreed, subject to 
the approval of the managers of the Royal Aquarium, 
that an exhibiti f ly Ct tk Dahlias 
&c., should take place on September 9, 10, and 11, 
and an early autumn show on October 6, 7, and 8, 
and the mid-winter show on December 1, 2, and 3. 
It was also resolved that the sum of £20 should be 
& ards the Dahlia prizes, The da 
Jubilee exhibition are November 3,4, 5,and 6. Five 
Fellows and thirty-four ordinary members were 
elected, bringing the total number of new members 
for the year up to 162, Three societies were also 
admitted to affiliation. A vote of thanks was passed 
to the chairman for presiding. 
* THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.”—The dedica- 
tion of the annual volumes of our venerated contem- 
porary has become a matter of much interest to 
botanists and horticulturists. This year the honour 
falls to the share of Mr, Harry Borus of Cape Town, 
hose works on South African Orchids especially, 
amply entitle him to the warmest compliment that his 
colleagues can pay him, The plants figured in the 
Hort. Баштап, ех W. 
590, . £. 
i8.— A highly interesting 
x discovered in | Southern Arabia by Mr. Lunt. 
Tae stems are short, bearing аб the top a tuft of long 
linear- dass recurved fleshy leaves, destitate of 
spines at the margin, The 
branched, and bears numerous tubular 
tipped Sem green, Each flower is about 1 inch long 
(25 cen 
Buddhis Colvilei, Hook. fil. and Thoms., t. 7449, — 
The handsomest of all Himalayan shrubs, with pen- 
dalous masses of rose-purple or crimson flowers, 
relieved by the dark green foliage. 
holina pectinata, Б. Brown, t. 7450, An ex- 
traordinary little terrestrial Orehid, from the Cape 
of Good Hope, with tuberous roots, an erect slender 
hairy stem, only 3 to 4 inches (80 to 100 mill) in 
height, and a solitary roundish thick leaf, spreading 
on the surface of the ground. The flowers are 2 to 
3 inches (50 to 80 mill) across, with erect linear 
(2 inches), Бад =. dividing about half- 
way down i ar fringe-like spreading 
segments 
Musa, горна, Wallich, 6, 7451.—A species with a 
фе to 7 feet high; leaves, 4 to 6 feet а to 
2 met.), long ob lanceolate acuminate. — 
bright red, with obtuse golden tips; flowers tubular, 
yellowieh, 1 to 1} inch long (35 mil'.) ; the females 
rather shorter than the males 
GARDENERS’ ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITU- 
TION.— We are requested to state that the com- 
mittee have gratefully received the sum of 
£257 Зз, Dd., being a proportionate amount of the 
fund raised to perpetuate the memory of the late 
Mr. Wm. TnowsoN, e aA (отда, to be oe 
and known hencefort the Wm. Thom 
Менон Fund," 
NATIONAL ROSE SOCIETY.—A copy of the 
E duly attested, has been sent to us, It 
shows th at the receipts, including balance from last 
account of £72 118. 9d., amounted to £798 Os, 7d. 
The balance at the banker’s is £45 142, 3d., the total 
expenditure being £742 6s. No lees a sum than 
£260 10s. was distriouted. in prizes at the Crystal 
Palace. 
'* HAN DER PRAKTISCHEN ZIMMER- 
GÄRTNEREI Т " (House Gardening). -Ne mention this 
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of what to do and what to avoid than pages of беу. 
tion. The author is Mr. M SDORFFER, and th 
publisher Ropert OPPEN , of The work 
is to be published in eight parts, at a low price. 
ROYAL IN 
lecture arrangements before 
G eKendrick, Professor of Physiology in the 
University of Glasgow, six lectures (adapted to a 
javenile auditory), on * Sound, Hearing, and Speech” 
(experimentally illustrated); Professor Charles 
Stewart, Fullerian Professor of Pnysiology, R.I. 
eleven lectures on The i 
Piants and Animals: its Structure and Fanctions;' 
The Rev. William Barry, D.D., four 
“Realism and Idealism in Musical Art” (with 
musical illustrations); The Right Hon, Lord Ray- 
leigh, Professor atural Philosophy, R. I., six 
given by the Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh 
about Argon;” succeeding discourses will probably 
be given by Professor Bardon Sanderson, 
Lilly, Dr. John Murray, Mr. J. J. Armist 
Edward Frankland, Mr. A. Б. Binnie, Mr. 
Lee, Professor Т, R. Fraser, Professor — id 
other gentlemen. 
EARLY WALLFLOWERS.—We have received from 
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GARDENS.—The following 
Board of A ure:—England, 68,122; Wales, 
1175; I 5, 250, 1а each case, but especially 
in Engl an the area 
devoted м small fruit crops as compared with that 
noted in 1894, The total area of land and water in 
Great Britain is 56,771 728 5 and in Ireland 
20 706,258. Kent has 22272 acres under fruit, a 
slight increase over 1894. мия contines nearly 
stationary with 3 982 acres; Lancashire has 2517 
acres against 2,396 last year; 8 inetead 
of 1,331; — 3.144 as compared to 2,508. 
The total area is given at 
212,963 acres in м of 208, 8211 їп the preceding year. 
The largest orchard areas are, in Devonshire, 26 955 ; 
Hereford, 26538; Somersetshire, 
Worcester, 
preceding year, 
than any other — the acreage being returned at 
12.516 acres; after which comes Middlesex, 9,410; 
Bedford, with 7,274 acres; Worcester, 5,586; Essex, 
4,740; Surrey, with 3,688, remaining counties 
have at а very much smaller area devoted to market 
rdening. 
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PIERRE p —The death of this famous 
rosarian, of S i rdi 
to the Revu 
in hia itu ee year, and died on November 2. 
