CXCvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



foliage, but now it had flowered it proved to be Astelia Banksii, a 

 native of North Island, New Zealand. Dr. Rendle confirmed Mr. 

 Fraser's identification of the plant and said that it formed a curious 

 feature of the vegetation of New Zealand, often growing as an epiphyte 

 as well as in the soil. 



Antirrhinum eaten by animals. — Mr. Cuthbertson called attention 

 to the damage done by some gnawing animal (possibly the short- 

 tailed field mouse) to the developing fruits of Antirrhinums at Mark's 

 Tey, Essex. The half-ripe fruits were bitten through and either 

 partly or wholly devoured. The only variety attacked out of a 

 great number was ' Yellow King. ' 



Curious Hazel. — Dr. Rendle showed a curious Hazel having the 

 edges of the cup (which was of the Avellana type) very deeply divided 

 into long, finger-like processes. 



Pinus with juvenile and mature foliage. — Messrs. Cheal exhibited 

 a plant of Pinus Pinea about 3 feet in height bearing both juvenile 

 and mature foliage, the juvenile form being present on shoots both 

 at the base and near the top of the tree. Sir D. Morris had recently 

 noticed a similar thing on large trees of this species near Bournemouth, 

 and the tree not uncommonly produces them when cut back. 



Rose attacked by Botrytis. — Mr. J. H. Gould sent shoots of Roses 

 attacked by the fungus Botrytis. The course of the disease was said 

 to be as follows : — " First a shoot shows the disease ; this may be 

 either in the middle or towards the top of the shoot — never at the 

 base. The attack commences at one side. When it has worked 

 completely round the shoot it progresses both upwards and down- 

 wards until it has destroyed the whole shoot. The plants are not 

 dying from the base ; on the contrary, the base is the last part of 

 the plant to show sign of disease." The fungus probably attacks 

 shoots damaged or weakened by some cause, the result being similar 

 to that seen in the attack of the same fungus on Gooseberries. 



Gall on root of Cupressus. — Mr. Finlay Sanderson, of Chislehurst, 

 sent a large gall (larger than a cricket ball) from the root of a tree 

 of Cupressus Lawsoniana. Similar galls on the roots of Cupressus 

 and other plants have frequently been shown before the Committee, 

 and are probably due to the attack upon the plant of Bacillus tume- 

 faciens. 



Scientific Committee, October 26, 1915. 



Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, and nine members 



present. 



Astelia Banksii. — A Botanical Certificate was unanimously recom- 

 mended for this plant, shown by Lady Ilchester under the name 

 Pitcairnia albucaefolia, and grown in a cold house at Holland House 

 for some years until it flowered. 



