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Cyclamen latifolium (persicum). — Messrs. Barr showed plants of 

 Cyclamen latifolium grown from corms collected near Smyrna, in Asia 

 Minor. The amount and distribution of the white markings on the 

 foliage showed considerable variation, and there was also some amount 

 of variation in the extent of the pink suffusion on the white ground 

 of the flowers, which were much smaller than those of the cultivated 

 plant, and possessed of a very sweet scent, too often lacking in those 

 at present cultivated. Mr. Sutton remarked that the plant was exceed- 

 ingly common in Palestine; but the corms were usually too large to 

 remove. 



Scientific Committee, February 8, 1910. 



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

 fourteen members present. 



Seedling Cyclamens. — Mr. Herbert Chapman, Eye, showed a large 

 number of seedlings raised from seed of Cyclamen ibericum roseum, 

 which had been pollinated (without previous castration) with pollen of 

 G. latifolium. The seedlings flowered earlier than seedlings raised from 

 C. ibericum roseum pollinated with its own pollen, and the flowers were 

 larger than those of the seed parent, but otherwise they showed no sign 

 of hybrid origin. Mr. Chapman is carrying on further work with these 

 plants. 



Cyclamen latifolium (persicu7n). — Several plants of the greenhouse 

 Cyclamen were exhibited by Mr. A. W. Sutton, V.M.H., to illustrate 

 new strains of this very variable plant. A plant of the common type 

 was shown to compare with them. The flowers included a large- 

 flowered almost magenta one, with broad-fringed petals ; a w^hite flower 

 with fringed petals, red at the throat and tipped with pink ; a pink flower 

 with very slightly frilled petals, undulate at the edges, red at the throat, 

 and tipped with deep pink ; and others varying from white to deep rose, 

 and fringed to a greater or less extent. 



Variation in Crocus chrysanthus. — Mr. Bowles showed a series of 

 flowers of seedlings raised from Crocus chrysanthus , illustrating the 

 enormous range of colours in the flowers of this species. He said the 

 range was sO' great as to render it practically impossible to separate 

 G. chrysanthus from C. biflorus. 



Malformation i7i Primula sifiensis. — From Mr. Etherington, of 

 Lewisham, came some specimens of Primula sinensis (stellata) with 

 numerous dwarf flowers at the base of the umbel. Mr. Crawshay took 

 the plants for further investigation. (See p. xxix.) 



Fasciation in Russelia juncea. — Mr. W. H. Patterson, of St. 

 Vincent, W. Indies, sent an interesting case of fasciation in Russelia 

 juncea. Fasciation, though a very common phenomenon, is rare in 

 xerophytic plants. In the present case the plant had, however, not 

 been growing under normal xerophytic conditions, but had been in 

 garden soil, and received more water and earth salts than usual. 



