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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



May 3, 1910. 



Sir John T. D. Llewelyn, V.M.H., in the Chair, and ten 

 members present. 



The late Mr. G. S. Saunders. — A letter was read from Miss 

 Saunders thanking the Committee for the vote of condolence passed 

 by the Committee at the last meeting. 



Seedlings of Saxifraga Bhei. — Mr. J. Fraser, F.L.S., showed and 

 commented upon a number of seedling forms of Saxifraga Rhei, raised 

 by Mr. C. Eead, of Ealing. He thought it likely that Saxifraga Rhei 

 was a form derived from S. viuscoides, and that it was in a state of 

 mutation. It had given seedlings of a variety of forms which had 

 received different names, including S. * Guildford Seedling,' forms of 

 S. decipiens and so on. ^S'. Rhei is found in a wild state in Tran- 

 sylvania, and members of the Committee considered it possible that 

 the great extent of variation seen in the seedlings was due to segre- 

 gation of hybrid characters. 



Polyanthus, &c. — The Eev. Eoland Upcher showed some varieties 

 of Polyanthus which he had raised in his garden at Halesworth. They 

 departed considerably from the florists' type of Polyanthus both in 

 flower and leaf, but, in the opinion of most of the Committee, they 

 showed no evidence of crossing with other species of Primula, pollen 

 of which had been placed upon the stigmas of the parents. Mr. 

 Upcher said no precautions had been taken to prevent the admission of 

 foreign pollen. Mr. Bartleet, of Shooter's Hill, sent a semi-double 

 flower of a yellow Auricula. Eev. J. Jacob showed a series of coloured 

 Cowslip flowers. 



Malformed Orchid. — Mr. L. Crawshay showed an inflorescence of 

 the natural hybrid Odontoglossum x Leeanum, every flower mal- 

 formed, all the petals, except the lip, being absent. 



Scientific Committee, June 7, 1910. 



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

 members present. 



Nomenclature of garden plants. — It was reported that the recom- 

 mendations sent to the Horticultural Congress at Brussels, at which 

 the E.H.S. was represented by Mr. Bowles, M.A., and Dr. Eendle, 

 F.E.S., had been accepted with scarcely any modifications. These 



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