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TIOYAL nORTICULTrRAL SOCIETY. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Andrew Murray, Esq., E.L.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. Webb, of Reigate, sent a Cyclamen which had thrown up a 
stem bearing leaves and axillary flowers ; lie had six or eight other 
plants in the same condition. The stem was round in its lower 
part, but somewhat aborted in the upper, with a petiole and 
peduncle partly adnate to it, giving the whole a slightly fasciated 
appearance. 
Major Clarke said that he had heard from the late Donald 
Beaton that cuttings from these stems, which occasionally occurred, 
afforded a means of propagating Cyclamens. 
Dr. Welwitsch had several times met with wild plants of 
Cyclamen in Carinthia producing similar branches. 
The grub of a small Moth, probably Thecla Isocratis, was shown 
feeding on the fruit of the Pomegranate. 
Prof. Thisclton Dyer had seen specimens of Polyporus squamosum 
from Hampstead, riddled in every direction by the larva) of a small 
Moth. 
Dr. Welwitsch stated that, from a communication from Count 
Salms, he learnt that there was now evidence in the Berlin 
Museum that the parasite producing the deformity exhibited at the 
Committee on Nov. 1., and of which a similar instance was figured 
in the " Gardener's Chronicle," 1871, p. 1425, was a true ZorafithuSj 
as leaves still remained on the specimen. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
James Bateman, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 
Professor Thiselton Dyer commented on the plants examined by 
the Floral Committee, and especially on Amherstia nobilis, which was 
originally introduced by Mr. Gibson. Mr. Bateman stated that at 
Penllagere, near Swansea, Mr. Dillwyn had a plant of Evergreen 
Beech {Fagus hetuloides)^ near the tide line, which was 15 feet high, 
with a girth of 11 inches at 3 feet from the ground, when last 
measured, near which Arundinaria falcata has attained a height of 
