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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A letter was read from Mr. Hanbury, stating that the leaves of 

 the Papaw are horizontal in the daytime, and become vertical in 

 the evening. 



The Meeting then adjourned. 



Erratum in Eeport of the General Meeting, April 7, p. cxxix. " Thrixospermum " 

 should be " Thrixspermwm, Eeichb." 



GENEBAL MEETING. 

 J. Bateman, Esq., E.B.S., in the Chair. 



The Bev. J. Dix announced the awards of the Moral Committee, 

 and called especial attention to a fine hybrid named Dieffenbachia 

 nebulosa, Hyb., raised by Mr. Bause at the Society's Gardens at 

 Chiswick. 



Mr. Berkeley stated that it was thought expedient that the 

 Prize for Narcissus should be postponed to a later period in the 

 year than had at first been announced, and begged that specimens 

 might be brought as they flowered to the Meetings, of which 

 record would be kept, and that marked varieties should not be 

 excluded. 



He then produced plants of Narcissus biflorus, with one, three, 

 or four flowers on the same stalk. This circumstance, in addition 

 to the fact that it never, as far as has been observed, produces 

 ovules, seems to indicate that it is a mere sport of some species, 

 though considered indigenous. It has been long cultivated, and 

 plants were still growing a few years since, and perhaps are to be 

 found still, on the site of the old gardens, near the river Nene, 

 of Eotheringhay Castle. „ 



Attention was drawn to the curious fact that out of 6000 

 plants raised by Mr. Standish from a cross between B. cinnanio- 

 meum Cunninghami, with a pure white ground, and early bloomer, 

 and Minnie, of a pinkish white, the female parent a late-flowering 

 variety, not a dozen resembled the latter. 



Toxicophlcca spectabilis, a species from Natal, was then pointed 

 out as belonging to Apocynece, though at first sight so strongly 

 resembling Iccora. The Dutch name the original species Gift- 

 Boom (Poison-tree), the natives making a gelatinous decoction of 

 the bark for poisoning their arrows. 



Mr. Berkeley produced specimens of the pink variety of Lychnis 

 Dioica, the anthers of which were infested with Ustilago anther- 



