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calyces still more fully developed than tliose vi'liich were sent to 
tlie Scientific Committee last year, and which have flourished at 
Chiswick ; and a noble spike of Phalcdnopsis ^cliilleriana came 
from Killerton, with eighty blossoms. The point of greatest 
attraction, however, was a collection of Orcbids belonging to the 
genera Orchis, OjpJirys, and Sei^aj)ias, from the Comte de Paris, 
which were admirable both as specimens of good cultivation and 
great beauty. 
PEUIT COMMITTEE. 
Mr. Cooling, of Bath, received a First-class Certificate for a 
new Brocoli called Matchless. Mr. Gilbert, gardener to the 
Marquis of Exeter, received the First Prize for an excellent 
collection of forced Yegetables, amongst which the Sea-kale 
was very fine. There were two fine collections of Apples, in 
excellent preservation, from Eatington Park and Tyringham 
Gardens, and some excellent Brown Turkey Figs from Oulton 
Park. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
"W. Wilson Saundees, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. A. Murray stated that the Coccus referred to by him at the 
last Meeting was O. patelliformis, of which a figure was given in 
the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' for 1863. 
He produced specimens of a gall preserved by electrotyping, 
w^hich, he thought, might be a good plan for the exhibition of 
objects which are notoriously extremely subject to decay. He 
also brought specimens of the eggs of some moth, covered with 
dark grey hairs, which the Chairman thought might be derived 
from the moth when in the act of depositing the eggs. 
The Secretary then alluded to an observation of Dr. Hooker, 
made some years since, as to the cause of the well-known change 
of colour in the leaves of Selaginella mutahilis, the chlorophyll 
being diff"used when they have their full glaucous colour, and 
collected into a little ball when they become pale' — an observation 
w^hich was made long before the recent communications on the 
subject by continental physiologists. 
The Chairman brought a plant of Lilium TJiomsonianum, which 
had thrown out a number of pentagonal and hexagonal pedi- 
cellated bulbils. These were shown to derive their acute angles 
