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Ireland ; and G. F. Wilson, Esq., Weybridye, showed Polyanthus 

 hybrids, Scott Wilson and Alice Wilson, together with specimens 

 of P. denticulata. 



Dr. R. Hogg showed the Bardfield Oxlip, P. elatior, Jacquin, 

 and the common English Oxlip, brevistyla, together with seedling 

 varieties from it. 



Dr. August Kanitz, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kolozsvar, 

 Transylvania, showed a pan of Primula carpatica, with a slender 

 scape of yellow flowers, but robust foliage. This species flowers 

 in the Transylvanian Alps from June till August ; but having 

 been grown under glass at Chiswick since March, its flowers 

 were produced in April. 



P. J. Wonky, Esq., Rodney Lodye, Clifton, showed P. denti- 

 culata, P. hirsuta, from the Upper Engadine ; P. carniolica, 

 dwarf and compact, with rosy-purple flowers ; P. pubescens, 

 P. nivea, a variety of P. viscosa (with white flowers), P. 

 integrifolia, P. viscosa (from the Upper Engadine), and P. 

 Facchinii. 



The Hon. and Rev. J. T. Boscawen, Lamorran, Probus, 

 Cornwall, sent a most charming collection of wild Primroses 

 taken from the open air in woodlands around his house. The 

 tints were chiefly pink and yellow, two colours that blend most 

 harmoniously, but which are rarely seen together, except in 

 Nature's handiwork. The plants were robust and full of bloom. 



Miss G. Jekyll, Munstead, Godalming, exhibited a mound of 

 moss dotted over with border Primroses in white, crimson, 

 yellow, and red, that had a pretty effect. 



E. G. Loder, Esq., Floore, Weedon, showed a collection of about 

 sixty species and varieties of Primula. 



Professor M. Foster showed a flowering plant of the little- 

 known Kaufmannia Semenovii with a spike of pale-greenish 

 yellow pendulous flowers. 



Miscellaneous. 



Mr. B. S. Williams, Upper Holloway, exhibited a table full 

 of mixed stove plants and Orchids. From Mr. Llewelyn's garden 

 at Penllergare there came some species of Himalayan Rhododen- 

 drons, as Thompsoni, Hookeri, ochraceum, arboreum album, 

 Wallichi, campanulatum and ciliatum. The flower masses of 

 these were small, owing to their having grown in the open, but 



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