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curious East Indian plant, with their curled keels looking very like 

 snails, so that the plant has been called the ' Snail flower.' The 

 specimens came from Hampton Court, where the plant was introduced 

 in 1690. 



Lobelia hybrids. — Mr. J. S. Arkwright sent specimens of a hybrid 

 between Lobelia cardinalis and L. syphilitica. The plants, which 

 were tall, varied in the colours of their flowers and in the shades of 

 their foliage. They gave promise of developing into handsome 

 garden plants, though the colours were a little dingy at present. This 

 may have been due in part at least to the late season of their flowering, 

 and to the fact that they had been brought on in a greenhouse. The 

 name L. X Arkwrightii was proposed for them. 



Scientific Committee, November 4, 1913. 



Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, with ten 

 members present, and Mr. R. W. Wallace, visitor. 



Decaisnea Fargesii Fruiting. — Mr. R. W. Wallace exhibited fruits 

 of Decaisnea Fargesii from a garden in the East of England. The 

 curious Bean-like but fleshy fruits of this Berberidaceous plant are 

 produced frequently in the West of England, but this is the first 

 instance known to any member of the Committee of their ripening 

 in the open in East Anglia. 



Scented-leaved Pelargoniums. — Mr. J. Fraser, F.L.S., continued 

 his observations on the history of these plants in gardens, illustrating 

 his remarks as usual by means of beautifully dried specimens from 

 the Wisley collection. 



Quilled Chrysanthemums. — Mr. A. Worsley showed flowers of 

 quilled Chrysanthemums from his garden. He said : — " I have never 

 seen any record of the first appearance of these forms among garden 

 Chrysanthemums, and perhaps we should have to search far back in 

 the history of this genus before we should find the origin of these 

 forms. 



"At the present time it is probable that both forms exist in posse 

 in the constitution of most of our garden Chrysanthemums, and will 

 appear now and again in seedlings without any necessity for crossing 

 the parent with pollen from quilled or - anemone-flowered ' varieties. 

 I raised seedlings from the well-known ' Miss Mary Anderson ' without 

 artificial impregnation. At the time I grew no quilled or ' anemone- 

 flowered ' varieties, and the chances of insect fertilization were 

 extremely remote. In the first place, no other greenhouses exist very 

 near my garden, and secondly the season of the year is too late 

 for bees or flies to be about. Furthermore, the seedlings resembled 

 the parent in respect of colour, aad differed only in the remarkable 

 irregularity of the shape of the petals. 



" Hence it appears almost certain that impregnation was effected 



