EXTRACTS EEOM PROCEEDINGS. 



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Dr. Masters read an interesting communication from Mr. Tillery 

 on the acclimatization of Truffles in Australia, by the method pro- 

 posed in the ' G-ardeners' Chronicle/ 1869, p. 220. Mr. Andrew- 

 Murray doubted the possibility of cultivating Truffles there from 

 the absence of calcareous matter, which must at any rate be im- 

 ported to give any chance of success *. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 J. Bateman, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The several awards were announced by the Rev. Joshua Dix 

 aud Mr. Wilson, the latter of whom stated that reports as to the 

 preservation of fruit had been received from all the Exhibitors at 

 the previous Meeting to whom application had been made. 



Mr. Berkeley stated that he had seen an authentic specimen of 

 Le Jolis's Fhormium Cookianium, which is identical with P. Co- 

 lensoi. In this form or species the leaves very rarely split at the 

 tip as in P. tenax, and the capsules are long, slender, and often 

 spirally twisted ; little regard, however, can be paid to the cap- 

 sules, as they vary extremely in undoubted P. tenax. Messrs. 

 Banks and Solander considered all the forms referrible to one 

 species. Mr. Bull's plant is certainly a form of the plant of Le 

 Jolis, and that of Mr. Yeitch a form of P. tenax, distinct from P. 

 tenax variegatum. 



Attention was called to a group of JPrimulce, consisting of P. 

 amosna, P. denticulata, and P. Fortunei, from Mr. "Ware, of Totten- 

 ham, and the true Fuchsia macrantha, from Mr. Wilson Saunders, 

 which had already been noticed by Mr. Dix, as had also a shrubby 

 Lopezia, which is believed to be quite distinct from L. coronata. 



It was remarked that Spircea Thunbergii which was exhibited 

 at the last Meeting takes freely on different kinds of plum-stocks. 

 Attention was then called to an Anemone which has been in flower 

 all the winter at Chiswick, supposed to be of Greek origin, and 

 received under the name of A. blanda. It is very closely allied to 

 A. apennina, and is, perhaps, only an early-flowering variety. 



* In the preceding page, Dr. Gilbert suggested that "tapping" should be 

 substituted for swelling ; and Professor Westwood stated that, on closer exami- 

 nation, the lame in an Orchid-shoot proved to be Curculionaceous. Mr. Tillery's 

 paper is given at length in 4 Grard. Chron.' 1869, p. 252. 



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