SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



January 7, 1913. 



Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. in the Chair, and eight 



members present. 



Adioda x 1 St. Fuscien.' — Messrs. Charlesworth, Haywards Heath, 

 sent a hybrid between Ada aurantiaca and Cochlioda Noezliana with 

 narrow-petalled flowers of a deep red colour on a many-flowered 

 raceme. This cross was first shown on August 29, 1911, by M. Graire, 

 and it had been raised by Messrs. Charlesworth simultaneously. 

 The Committee unanimously recommended that Certificates of Ap- 

 preciation should be awarded to both M. Graire and Messrs. Charles- 

 worth & Co. 



Cycnoches Cooperi. — Messrs. Sander showed a plant under this 

 name which was thought by some to be identical with C. pentadactylon, 

 but Mr. Rolfe reports that, though very similar in structure to that 

 species, it is quite different in colour, the sepals and petals being of 

 a nearly uniform mahogany-brown, and there are also some differences 

 in the details of the lip. It would therefore appear to be sufficiently 

 distinct to warrant a new name, and the Award of Merit recommended, 

 subject to the name being found correct, therefore stands. 



Epidendrum ciliare X Laelia cinnabarina. — Mr. J. O'Brien, V.M.H., 

 showed flowers of a hybrid between these two plants, pointing out 

 that, though not very conspicuous, the markings on the lip followed 

 the remarkable fringing of the Epidendrum parent and the form of 

 the lip was markedly elongated. 



Miltonia vexillaria X Odontoglossum crispum. — At the correspond- 

 ing meeting last year M. Firmin Lambeau showed a seedling 

 (Odontoma x Firminii) of this cross, and the Committee requested 

 that further plants of the same raising should be shown when the 

 opportunity occurred. M. Lambeau now sent two more plants 

 bearing flowers very similar in appearance, and leaving no doubt that 

 the parentage stated originally was correct. 



Datura arborea. — Mr. Holmes, F.L.S., showed a flower of D. arbor ea 

 bearing a white outgrowth from the outside of the corolla similar to 

 those which occur frequently in Gloxinias and other plants. 



Insect attacking Fennel. — Mr. Holmes also showed a number of 

 insects belonging to the genus Typhlocyba (leaf -hoppers) . Few insects 

 attack the Fennel, possibly owing to the oil it contains. 



Grouse eating Willow buds. — Mr. F. M. Ogilvie sent shoots of a 

 Willow on which he had seen grouse feeding in Argyllshire. The crop 

 of the grouse was full of the buds. The Willow appeared to be Salix 

 repens, an apparently uncommon food plant for grouse in Britain. 



