EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



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To Cypripedium nitidissimum X, Norman G. Cookson, Esq. 

 To Cattlcya Mendelii Arddarrocli variety, R. B. White, Esq. 



FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



T. Fkancis Rivers, Esq., in the Chair, and twelve members 



present. 

 Award Recommended: — 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, 

 for a collection of Apples in excellent condition — -the most note- 

 worthy varieties being Seaton House, Lord Derby, Betty Geeson, 

 King of Tomkins County, Alfriston, Stone's, Bismarck, Wash- 

 ington, and Cox's Pomona. 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr.. R. Gilbert, Burghley Gardens, Stamford, sent two 

 varieties of Rhubarb, viz., Salt's Crimson and Hawke's Cham- 

 pagne, which the Committee desired to see growing at Chiswick. 



Sir C. W. Strickland, Bart., Hildenley, Malton, sent a sample 

 of Jam made from Winesour Seedling Plum. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., C.M.G., in the Chair, and eight 

 members present. 



Scales of Oxalis. — Adverting to the specimens shown at the 

 last meeting, Mr. D. Morris mentioned that he had since for- 

 warded some of the scales of the species of Oxalis to Professor 

 Hildebrand, of Freiburg, in Baden, the monographer of the 

 genus Oxalis. Professor Hildebrand's opinion was as follows : — 

 4 ' The larger scales you have sent me have the appearance and 

 anatomical structure of those of Oxalis Bowiei. The curled 

 filaments have the same structure, but I cannot imagine to what 

 part of the bulb they were attached. Perhaps they are a means 

 of dispersion for the bulbs. Besides the scales I found two bits 

 of stems that are very like those of Oxalis variabilis. So it 

 seems likely to me that the bulbs belong to some species of 

 Oxalis, but I never saw in any cultivated or dried specimens 

 any scales like the curled ones." Mr. Morris exhibited a com- 

 plete bulb, showing the exact position occupied by the curled 



