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cereals and various wild grasses (in one case of Ayrostis nulyaris, a 

 malformation dim to an col worm has been taken an a character upon 

 which I" found a variety), and warts mid knob upon rootH. 



. I risu-nmi coiisaiiyuincunt. M r. Massoc, on hohalf of Mr. Klwes, K.H.S., 

 bowed plant i of thin now species. 



I'hint-hrrcdiiiy. Professor llaiiHcn, of N. Dakota, who is pawing 

 through London on his way to Russia and Siberia on bin fourth journey of 

 explimiht.il, received a hearty welcome from the Committee. In the 

 eourHo of bin remarkH lie alluded to the efforts which were being made to 

 obtain fruit frees which would maintain their existence without coddling 

 through the rigours of the American winter, mid remarked upon the "rent 

 measure of success which had already attended their efforts to obtain 

 frost resistant I'Iuium, Raspberries, Ac 



Fruits of lull hraca clandt'st'unt. Mr. I »owlos showed capsules of this 

 interesting mid beautiful parasite to illustrate the explosive mechanism by 

 which the seeds are Hung out of the capsule when ripe. The two valves 

 of the capsule suddenly roll inwards and lling the seeds out a very con- 

 siderable distance. 



I'rimuhi unynstidrns. I'Yoni Messrs. Veitch, Chelsea, came a pun of 

 this beautiful I'rimuhi, which is closely allied to /'. / 'oissou ii, and hears 

 several whorls of drooping deep clear purple Mowers upon its rigid erect 

 stems. 



Milton in i ,\ nil, a hi. ha ron Schroder, V.M.I I., sent a spike of Miltonia 

 rrritlnria with normal Mowers, mid another with partially double Mowers, 

 winch wss borne upon a plant divided from the former a few years ago. 

 The parent had always (for <>\er twenty years) borne normal Mowers, 

 while each year since its separation the offset had produced semi-double 

 Mowers. 



Itluv Sinri I.'ch 'Zephyr' I'Vom Mrs. It. II. PiMon, lliston, came 

 Mowers of a Pea raised by crossing ' Zoo ' (a medium blue) with a 

 'Countess Spencer ' (Paradise) in l!)O.V Mis. Billon had obtained the 

 same thin;: from a number of crosses nui.de subsequently between Mowers 

 of ;i deep blue mid others of a pink colour, in addition to others of all 

 shades of blue and of the ' Spencer ' form. 



Culinary I'cas, Mr. A. \V. Sutton, V.M.I I., showed the offspring of 

 ii Pes occurring spontaneously in Palestine, twelve miles from .Jaffa, four 

 yeftTS ago. Man) hybrids have been raised from crosses between this 

 wild form and the hcsl of the cultivated ones, and in some the coloured 

 Mower is reproduced, in others the Mowers are white ; in some the 

 urrated edges of the foliage, normal in the wild plant, are retained, but 

 ii others the margin of the leaf is practically entire. 



Sen \th u Com mitt mm, .July 21, 100H. 

 Mi K. \. BOWLEH, M.A., P.P.S., in the Chair, and eight members 



present. 



PeloTtC PdtlSy Mi I Isles exhibited Mowers of Pansy showing 

 regular peloria. Mmiv bad but lour petals, others had live, snd each 

 petal w;i Ipurred. Only one plant out of a batch of seedlings had 



