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seen on some species of Rhododendron caused by Exohasidium Bhodo- 

 deiulri. 



Abnormal Groicths. — Mr. Holmes, F.L.S., sent a very fasciated 

 specimen of Fritillaria Impcrialis bearing three or four times the normal 

 number of flowers ; also pale pink flowers of the common bluebell, a wild 

 form which had remained constant for four years ; and a specimen of the 

 well-known ' Jack-in-the-Green ' primrose, but having eight sepals and 

 six petals. 



Plants Exhibited. 



Bichardia Behiiianni. — A plant of this species with puce-coloured 

 spathe came from Col. C. 0. Hore ; it is rarely seen in cultivation. 

 Mr. R. Irwin Lynch, Y.M.H., of the Cambridge Botanic Gardens, 

 sent a large number of rare and interesting plants as follows : — 

 Sandersonia aurantiaca, a climbing liliaceous plant, very interesting, for 

 comparison with its near allies Littoniu and Gloriosa, the foliage being 

 very similar in these three distinct genera ; Gladiolus tristis, which 

 proves hardy on a border beneath a wall ; Lonicera thibetica, a newly 

 introduced plant (see " Re'S'ue Horticole," 1902, p. 448), quite unlike the 

 majority of the honeysuckles ; Erinacea imngens^ a beautiful plant with 

 inflated pale greenish calyx tinged with heliotrope, and a darker corolla, 

 coming between Ulex and Spartium ; Coronilla Emerus, from a plant 

 collected at Interlaken ; Cotyledon undulaia ("Botanical Magazine," 

 t. 7931) ; Lathrcea Clandestina^ a parasite on roots of willow, with 

 beautiful rosy-hlac flowers and white bracts (see " Gardeners' Chronicle," 

 1904, May 7, p. 292); Solanum Xanti (fig. in "Botanical Magazine," 

 t. 7821), a Cambridge introduction ; Heterotonm lobelioides, the " Bird 

 Flower " of Mexico, a curious plant, belonging to CampanulacccE 

 ("Botanical Magazine," t. 7849) ; Bichardia cantabrigiensis {B. Behmanni 

 X B. melanoleuca), a hybrid raised at Cambridge, showing intensification of 

 the pink colour of the female parent ; Tropceolum azureum, a rare and 

 beautiful greenhouse perennial from ChiU ; Fendlera rubicola, allied to 

 Philadelplius and Carpenteria, a native of Texas and Mexico (" Botanical 

 Magazine," t. 7924) ; Bomarea patacocensis, Herbert (Amaryl., 120, t. 14), 

 = B. conferta of "Gardeners' Chronicle," 1882,186, t. 31; Centaurea 

 crassifolia, with very fleshy leaves, peculiar to Malta, a sub-shrubby 

 plant introduced by Rev. Professor Henslow ; Orobanche ramona florc 

 alba ; a good yellow form of PcBonia Wittmanniana ; P. Emodi, a very 

 tender plant, and the beautifully coloured P. officinalis lobata ; Iris Korol- 

 kowi and the beautiful hybrid forms I. Korolkcnci x ibej-ica, I. Korol- 

 kowi X vaga, I. paradoxa x Korolkoici, I. ibcrica x pallida, a very fine 

 and easily cultivated border plant (these hybrids were of Sir Michael 

 Foster's raising) ; /. biflora gracilis, probably a hybrid between 7. iMrescews 

 and I. nudicaulis ; I. benacensis (not yet figm-ed), an early flowering 

 sweet-scented purple species; Antliemis Cupaniaim, q> species which Mr. 

 Lynch believes to be new ; Cheiranthus mutabilis, one of the parents of 

 C. kewcnsis ; Eupjliorbia polyclirovm, E. spinosa, and E. scrrata. A 

 vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to Mr. Lynch for his kindness 

 in sending the interesting plants mentioned above. 



