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Orchids and certain fungi (see Genetic Conf. Rep., p. 392). He, working in 
connection with Dr. Fulton, had not been able to verify the observations 
made. He had recently placed a large number of imported Odontoglossum 
crispum in contact with some oak leaves that had been thoroughly dried for 
some months; a fungus had certainly developed upon them, but it had 
turned out to be the common mushroom, and the mycelium had undoubtedly 
been on the oak leaves. 
MALFORMED Orcuip.—Mr. Odell showed a specimen of the Orchid 
Selenipedium X calurum, in which the lateral petals were completely 
suppressed, while the dorsal sepal was much reduced and. malformed. A 
similar condition is frequently seen in S. X Sedeni. 
At the meeting held on December roth there was again a fine display, 
and the awards consisted of one gold and five other medals, one First-class 
Certificate, five Awards of Merit, and one Botanical Certificate. 
G. F. Moore, Esq., Chardwar, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire 
(gr. Mr. Page), staged a magnificent group of about five hundred well- 
grown Orchids, to which the Society’s Gold Medal was awarded. The 
majority were Cypripediums, but the group was broken. up at intervals by 
plants of Dendrobium Phalenopsis, Epidendrum X O’Brienianum, and 
Oncidium varicosum, with palms and Crotons, and carpeted with moss, so 
that the pots were not visible. There were about 150 varieties of Cypri- 
pedium insigne, with the best yellow forms in the centre. C. i. Harefield 
Hall var. was a magnificent specimen bearing a dozen flowers and eight 
seed capsules. There were also many fine forms of C. X Leeanum and C. 
x Actus, C. X Maudie, C. x triumphans, C. concolor, the handsome 
C. X Blanche Moore, C. X memoria-Moensii, and others much too 
numerous to mention. 
F. D. Godman, Esq., South Lodge, Horsham (gr. Mr. Moody), staged a 
very fine group, which gained a Silver Flora Medal. A good plant of 
Angraecum sesquipedale occupied the centre, surrounded by Calanthe x 
Veitchii, C. vestita and others, with some good Lelia anceps, Vanda 
coerulea, the pretty little Oncidium cheirophorum and O. ornithorhynchum, 
well grown Cypripediums, &c. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), 
received a First-class Certificate for Sophrocattleya eximia Fowler's var. 
(S. grandiflora x C. Bowringiana), a compact little plant, bearing a scape 
of two brilliant mauve-crimson flowers, with the disc of the lip yellow, 
veined with red. 
Major G. Holford, C.V.0., ©.LE., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander), 
sent Cypripedium x Earl of Tankerville (exul X nitens), and the following 
three other Orchids, each of which gained an Award of Merit. Lelio- 
