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and partly pseudo-distichous ; the first form has been called 

 " Harringtoni," &c, but it is (like the Irish Yew) merely an 

 accidental occurrence. 



Tsuga Albertiana. — He also showed a bough of this plant 

 bearing male flowers, which are not often to be seen. 



Odontoglossum crispum. — A flowering branch was received 

 from Mr. Bull, all the flowers being apparently abnormal. In 

 one examined by the Secretary the two posterior sepals were 

 coherent, the third was wanting ; the three petals were present, 

 but all alike except in size. The two posterior of the three 

 stamens of the outer whorl were present ; but the anterior, and 

 all three of the inner whorl, were suppressed. The three carpels 

 were present, but the ovary chamber was greatly distorted, the 

 placentae, usually prominent, not being traceable ; the stigmatic 

 depression was nearly obsolete. The above details were traceable 

 by means of the distribution of the vascular cords. There 

 appeared, therefore, to have been a tendency to suppression along 

 the median plane. 



Cypripedium caudatum reversed. — Mr. Douglas sent a 

 branch with two blossoms ; one was normal, the other com- 

 pletely reversed, showing the correct position of the labellum y 

 which is ordinarily upside down. 



Tulip fasciated. — Dr. Masters exhibited a specimen of a 

 Tulip, having three smaller-flowered peduncles adherent to it. 

 Not having the bulb, it could not be seen whether the smaller 

 Tulips arose from lateral bulbs, or whether the whole was a 

 multiplication of the main stem. 



Scientific Committee, June 7, 1892. 



D. Morris, Esq., in the Chair, and three members present. 



Gattleya Mendeli, Monstrous. — Mr. Wilks exhibited a spray 

 bearing two flowers, both of which were dimerous, in that there 

 were only two lateral sepals, the anterior one being wanting. 

 One of the pair of anterior petals was present and situated 

 nearly normally, but the lip was peculiar in having one half of 

 the form and colour of a labellum, while the other half had that 

 of an ordinary petal. This suggested the idea of a fusion having 



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