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base to apex, and could find nothing inside tlie fruit in connexion with 

 it. He suggested tliat it was probably a hybrid between the Orange 

 and the Grape fruit. 



S cilia liispanica with long bracts. — Mr. Worsley showed from his 

 garden an inflorescence of S cilia hispanica analogous to the variety 

 hracteata of Scilla nutans. The bracts were many times longer than 

 the pedicels. 



Tulip with displaced perianth piece. — Mr. Shea showed a Tulip 

 with a displaced perianth lobe a few inches below the flower, which 

 had but five perianth pieces. 



Parrot Tulip. — Messrs. Barr, of Taplow, showed a new break, 

 ' Sensation. ' The colour in the specimen was not fully developed. So 

 far as could be determined from investigations made in Holland, this 

 break suddenly appeared in a bed of the Dutch Breeder Tulip known 

 as Eeine d'Espagne (of which a specimen flower was exhibited) in 

 the nursery of a small Dutch growler. It is much dwarfer than its 

 Breeder parent, and also propagates more slowly. A Botanical Certifi- 

 cate was recommended tO' this plant on the suggestion of the Narcissus 

 Committee. The variety had none of the horn-like excrescences usual 

 in Parrot Tulips, and had a stem like that of a Darwin Tulip. 



Double Primrose. — A double primrose found growing wild was 

 exhibited from an unknown source. 



Irises. — Mr. W. Eickatson Dykes, of Farncombe, sent Irises, with 

 notes as follows, making clear the origin of /. florentina and /. albi- 

 cans : — /. germanica L. var. — This variety is one that is largely grown 

 for producing Orris-root in the neighbourhood of Florence. Its stem is 

 more slender than that of the varieties usually grown in England. It 

 is probably the form of which 1. florentina is the albino. I. floren-4 

 tina. — This is an albino form of a variety of I. germanica. Compare 

 the spathes and the inflorescence. /. Madonna, Sprenger. — A com- 

 paratively recent introduction from Arabia. Compare its flowers, 

 spathes, and inflorescences with those of /. albicans. There can be 

 little douHt that it is the purple form of which I. albicans is the albino. 

 /. albicans, Lange.— Contrast the flower, spathes, and inflorescence 

 with those of /. florentina, and compare them with those of 

 7. Madonna, of w^iich it is the albino form. /. albicans and 

 /. Madonna both come from the Yemen in Arabia, and' the former, 

 used as a graveyard ornament, has spread wherever the Mohammedans 

 have penetrated. 1. Reichenbachii, Heuffel. — This Iris, of wdiich both 

 purple and yellow flowered forms can be raised from the same capsule 

 of seed, is the common dwarf Iris of the Balkans, corresponding to 

 /. chamaeiris in Southern France and Northern Italy. N.B. — The 

 sharply keeled spathes, as contrasted with those of /. chamaeiris. 

 I. balkana (Janka), /. serbica (Pane), /. bosniaca (Beck), /. Skorpilii 

 (Velen), are some of the many synonyms of this Iris. I. clia.maeiris, 

 Bertolini. — This is the common dwarf Iris of the South of France and 

 of Northern Italy. It is easily distinguished from I. pumila by its 

 visible stem and short tube, and from /. Reichenbachii by the spatheSj 



