XXXV111 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



British Plants. — Mr. Druery, V.M.H., showed some plants of Senecio 

 squalidus, collected by Mr. C. B. Green, of Acton, on the railway bank 

 near Southall, Middlesex. Mr. Worsdell said he had found it near the 

 same place. The same gentleman sent the orchids, Aceras anthropophora, 

 Orchis Morio, Habenaria conopsea, and Orchis metadata, collected near 

 Harefield, in Middlesex. 



Fern Distribution. — Mr. Druery also showed, on behalf of Mr. A. Dean, 

 a fern, Adiantum Capilkis- Veneris, enclosed in a bottle, one of many 

 others growing in similar situations (but not all of the same species). A 

 newly formed garden in Surbiton was edged with these bottles forced 

 neck downwards into the soil, and the spores from which the ferns had 

 grown must have been present in the soil. As Mr. Druery remarked, this 

 illustrated well the ubiquity of the spores of ferns. 



Fruit of Carum nigrum. — Mr. E. M. Holmes, F.L.S., showed the 

 fruit of this Indian plant. The fruit possesses a distinct odour of 

 cummin. 



Spurless Aquilegia. — Mr. Empson, of North Walsham, sent flowers of 

 a seedling Aquilegia which possesses no spurs. The form is not at all 

 uncommon. 



Injured Pistachio Nuts. — Cecil Whitaker, Esq., sent a number of 

 pistachio nuts, grown in Sicily, which had been rendered completely 

 useless owing to the attacks of some insects. 



Malformation of Miltonia vexillaria. — Baron Schroder, V.M.H., sent 

 a curious spike of this orchid, which bore four apparently double flowers. 

 The spike was produced on a small and not very vigorous plant, taken 

 from a larger plant, which had previously borne only single flowers of the 

 ordinary type. 



Spirally twisted Cedar. — Mr. Chittenden showed photographs and 

 shoots from a cedar, Cedrus atlantica, the trunk and branches of which 

 appeared to be spirally twisted, so that a corkscrew-like groove ran down 

 them. Many of the young shoots upon the tree showed the same curious 

 character. The tree is growing in the garden of Miss Seabrook, Spring- 

 field, Chelmsford, and appears to be unique. 



Bibes sangidncum, Double. — Mr. Worsdell, F.L.S., reported that he 

 had examined the double Bibes shown at the last meeting by Sir E. Loder, 

 and found that each " flower " was not only doubled, but was at the same 

 time of a compound structure, representing a rudimentary phase of 

 splitting up into a number of flowers. No fungi or insects could be found 

 in the flowers or twigs, although one or other of these may have occurred 

 at an early stage in the plant's growth. A plant bearing similar flowers 

 occurs at Kew. 



Scientific Committee, June 25, 1907. 



Mr. A. E. Bowles, M.A., in the Chair, with fifteen other members 

 present, and Mr. and Mrs. Biffen visitors. 



The late Dr. Masters.— The Chairman read the following letter from 

 Mrs. Maxwell Masters : — " Mrs. Maxwell Masters and her daughters wish 

 to thank the members of the Scientific Committee for their very kind and 

 much valued sympathy with them in their irreparable loss. The Scientific 



