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sive drought, deficient irrigation, and imperfect nutrition. Ulti- 

 mately it was resolved that the specimens should be sent to Mr. 

 Berkeley, to be more fully reported on at the next Meeting of the 

 Committee. 



The Chairman read a note detailing the appearances presented 

 by a second flower-spike of the Hyacinth Robert Steiger, which 

 had been already exhibited to the Committee. "When first shown, 

 all the flowers on the spike were erect, unduly lengthened, and 

 green. The blooms produced on the second spike were singularly 

 intermediate in form and colour between the green erect ones 

 and those usually produced on this variety. The details of these 

 curious changes will be given at length in the ' Proceedings.' 

 The Chairman exhibited a singular burr in the Scotch Fir, similar 

 to those found in the Birch and other trees. Dr. Masters stated 

 that he had seen similar affections in the same tree, and also 

 similar aggregations of small cones. In Germany the occurrence 

 had been attributed to the presence of Peridermium JPini. 



It was then arranged that a Meeting of the Committee should 

 be held in May, at Chiswick, for the purpose of examining the 

 growth of the seeds in the experimental plot. 



The Meeting then adj ourned. 



GENERAL MEETING. 

 J. Batemajn - , Esq., E.R.S., in the Chair. 



The awards were enumerated by the Rev. J. Dix and Mr. 

 "Wilson ; and Major Trevor Clarke, in the absence of Mr. Berkeley, 

 made some observations as to the principal points of interest. 

 He called especial attention to the striking varieties of Primula 

 cortusoides, as showing the great disposition of the genus to assume 

 different forms. He then brought before the Meeting cut speci- 

 mens from his garden of Bellevalia romana and a double Oxalis, 

 usually considered a double form of 0. cernua, but differing from 

 it in being spotted at the base of each leaflet instead of the leaves 

 being spotted with black in all directions. He also brought a 

 plant of Lilium Thomsonianum with brighter flowers than those 

 of the specimen exhibited at the Meeting. The diagnosis had 

 been confirmed by Dr. Thomson. 



Mr. Bateman presented Mr. Anderson, of Meadow Bank, with 

 the Challenge Medal as the most successful exhibitor of Orchids 

 during the past year. 



