EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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Other Exhibits. 



From the Royal Gardens, Kew, were sent many species of 

 Primulas, including such pretty gems as P. viscosa confinis, P. 

 Kitaibeliana, P. pseudo-Fosterii, and P. Peyritschii. Other plants 

 of interest were Lathrsea clandestina, which had been cultivated 

 in the Gardens on the roots of a willow, bearing purple flowers 

 about 1^ inches in length, L. squamaria (the British species) 

 being sent for comparison ; the old Cineraria cruenta was 

 noteworthy as the plant from which our garden Cinerarias have 

 been developed ; Rhododendron Kewensis, bearing several trusses 

 of pale flesh-pink flowers ; Mertensia virginica, Saxifraga flagel- 

 lars, and Mackaya bella. 



Mr. R. Dean, Ranelagh Road, Ealing, sent a hybrid Primula, 

 a cross between P. ciliata purpurea and Alpine Auricula Beatrice. 

 The Committee expressed a desire to see the plant again. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., in the Chair, and nine 

 members present. 

 The exhibits of Orchids at this meeting, if few, were of excel- 

 lent merit. From the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 

 M.P., came two neat plants — covered with white flowers, with 

 rosy-crimson labellums— of Tetramicra (Leptotes) bicolor audits 

 variety T. bicolor serrulata ; also the pretty hybrid Dendrobe D. 

 melanodiscus raised at Burford Lodge by intercrossing D. Ains- 

 worthii and D. Findlayanum ; from the same gardens came the 

 curious European Orchid Ophrys Bertolonii, which had a solitary 

 flower, in general appearance resembling our Bee Orchis, but 

 much larger — sepals and petals rosy-lilac, the lip the richest 

 velvety maroon. 



R. B. White, Esq., of Arddarroch, X.B., sent a handsome 

 pearly-white form of Cattleya Mendelii, which was named C. 

 Mendelii Arddarroch variety. It is near to the plant known in 

 gardens as C. Bluntii. 



H. M. Pollett, Esq., Fernside, Bickley, staged a very distinct 

 form of purple-spotted Odontoglossum Pescatorei, with flowers 

 of perfect shape, and named 0. Pescatorei Thomsonianum. 



From the gardens of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Wylam-on- 

 Tyne, was sent a good specimen of a new Cypripedium obtained 



