SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 12. 
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ing report was received from Kew : — The fun^]^us on Pear is 
Monilia fructigena, Pers. The individual patches of fungus are 
limited in extent ; the first form exhausts the necessary food 
for a limited distance beyond its fruiting area. Its spores 
germinate and grow just beyond this sterile zone; hence succeed- 
ing crops are more or less concentric, and separated by narrow 
sterile zones without fungi." They thus resemble Fairy-rings. 
Cocos australis {C. eriospatha). — Dr. Masters exhibited 
orange-coloured Plum-like fruit received from Antibes, and sent 
by M. Naudin, and also by Mr. Hanbury. It is a native of 
Paraguay and Chili. It was the first occasion of its ripening in 
South Europe. The flavour resembled that of a Pineapple. 
Cypripedium, Hybrid. — Mr. Veitch sent plants of C. minosa 
and cut flowers of the parents — viz., C. x Arthurianum (male) 
and C. Spicerianum (female). The former is the result of 
C. insigne x C. Fairieanum. Two offspring from the same pod 
showed considerable *' dissociation," in that one more resembled 
the male and the other the female ; but the peculiar purple and 
white staminode of the male was lost, the green one of the 
female parent being present in both. The spotted perianth of 
the male was very pronounced in one, while the white sepal of 
the female was reproduced with no spots, though the purplish 
labellum of the female appeared on both. 
Bhododendron, Hybrid. — Mr. Veitch also sent a new form, 
Numa, the result of crossing the "bigener" indico-javanicum 
with R. multicolor var. Curtisi. Indico-javanicum resulted from 
crossing Lord Wolseley (a hybrid containing the three true species, 
R. jasminiflorum, R. javanicum (twice), and R. Brookianum var. 
gracile) with Azalea indica, " Stella." This produced rather 
contracted flowers of a brick-red colour.* This was crossed 
with the small crimson-flowered (1 inch) R. mult. var. Curt. 
Numa, bears large flowers (2 inches) of a deep red orange, with 
a shorter tube than that of the female parent. Hence the effect 
of the male is to transmit the form of the corolla ; but that of 
the female, the colour as well as the foliage, which is lanceolate, 
larger and broader than the leaf of R. mult. var. Curtisi. 
Black-shimmed Apple. — Dr. Masters exhibited an Apple, the 
rind of which was of a deep purplish-black colour, the cellular 
* Figured and described in " Journal B.H.S.," Vol. XIII., Pt. II., p. 21 
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