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Actinidia, embedded in the cortical tissue. Dr. Oliver remarked 

 that the buds which arise from the roots of Anemone japonica 

 are also endogenous. Similar buds on the roots of germinating 

 plants are well known and described — e.g., by Van Tieghem, 

 Bull. Soc. de Bot. Fr. 1886, page 40 ; Irmisch, Bot. Zeit. 

 1857, page 48, with pi. The interpretation appears to be that in 

 roots the pericycle is the most active layer, and such buds as arise 

 from roots are developed exactly as lateral roots are from this 

 tissue. On the other hand, in stems the pericycle is more often 

 in abeyance, while it is from the cambium from which ordinary 

 buds and adventitious roots arise. 



Translucent Apple. — Professor M. Ward reported upon the 

 specimen sent to the last meeting as follows : " The Apple sent 

 for my inspection was affected with a disease known as 

 1 Glassiness,' and was totally free from fungi in the interior. 

 The parts affected by this disease are distinguished by the cells 

 being very full of sugar and singularly poor in acids. The inter- 

 cellular spaces are filled with water, whereas in the healthy parts 

 they contain air. This season, a wet one, has been somewhat 

 prolific in such Apples. A condition not unlike this is produced 

 by frost, and by any changes which cause the intercellular spaces 

 to fill with water." 



Chrysanthemum " Hen and Chicken " Form. — Mr. Gooding, 

 of the Manor House, Hayes, sent a remarkable specimen of a 

 yellow variety with a large circle of small heads springing from 

 the base of the central one. The latter was arrested in its 

 growth, and dead. The florets had a tendency to be pedicillate, 

 especially the outer ones. It is difficult to assign a cause, but 

 possibly it received a check through frost, as no trace of insect 

 attacks was discoverable. 



Ly caste Skinneri, Monstrous. — Dr. Masters exhibited drawings 

 of this plant received from M. Linden, of Brussels, in which the 

 flowers were aborted and replaced by petaloid bracts. 



Leucadendron argenteum. — He also showed drawings of 

 germinating plants of the Silver Tree of Africa, which showed a 

 curious cavity at the base of cotyledons encircling the plumule. 



