CXVi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



rather than Ovularia, would seem to be the correct genus, as the 

 mature spores apparently become septate. I have found the fungus 

 growing on wild Water Lilies at Wicken Fen, Cambridge, during the 

 autumn of last year." 



Rose malformed. — Mr. W. C. Worsdell, F.L.S., said he had examined 

 the Rose sent to the last meeting by Miss Collin (p. cxiv), and had found 

 the calyx normal, and all the petals save one changed into foliage-leaves. 

 Proliferation into a second flower had occurred, the calyx of which 

 merged imperceptibly in a complicated way into the virescent, superior 

 carpels of the primary flower. This is an uncommon abnormality, 

 as it is usually the calyx, not the corolla, which exhibits phyllody. 



Malformed Schizanthus. — Mr. Worsdell also reported that he 

 found virescence and proliferation of all the flowers of the inflorescence 

 in the specimen shown at last meeting (p. cxiv) . Each flower has become 

 changed into an inflorescence consisting of a number of minute rudi- 

 mentary, axillary, virescent flowers, with no definite arrangement 

 of their parts. 



Gall on Daphne Mezereum. — Dr. Rendle reported that Mr. B. F. 

 Cummings, of the Natural History Museum, had kindly examined the 

 galls on Daphne Mezereum shown by Mr. W. E. Ledger at a previous 

 meeting, and considered it not at all unlikely that they were the work 

 of an early form of Perrisia daphnes, Kieff. 



Double Mangel. — Messrs. Cannell and Sons, Loddon, Norwich, 

 sent a double root of Mangel, two roots, one considerably larger than 

 the other, being attached at about the widest part. The Committee 

 thought it probable that the two had become grafted one on to the 

 other during growth and following contact. 



Double Daisy. — Mr. A. Worsley sent heads of a double Daisy in 

 which several capitula had become tightly pressed together, so that 

 the whole head presented a very curious appearance. 



Glaucidium palmatum. — A Botanical Certificate was unanimously 

 recommended for Glaucidium palmatum shown by Messrs. Perry, 

 of Enfield. 



Irises. — Mr. W. R. Dykes, M.A., showed a series of Irises, species 

 of the /. sibirica group, all characterized by a more or less hollow 

 stem and beardless flowers. Among them were /. Forrestii, I. Wilsonii, 

 and /. chrysographes, and the following hybrids : 7. X ' Zeta ' {sibirica ? 

 X Wilsonii), I. x ' Epsilon ' {Bulky ana ? x Forrestii), I. x 

 ' Gamma ' {p^^rrestii x chrysographes). There were plants of the 

 last form raised both ways, and all practically alike. 



Iris tenax ? X /. Wilsonii { = I. x ' Meta ') illustrated in a par- 

 ticularly striking degree the frequently-noted fact of the greater 

 strength and vigour of a first cross over the parents. The flowers 

 in this case had inherited a yellowish tinge from the pollen parent. 

 I. X ' Iota ' {tenax ? x Purdyi) was also shown. A peculiar colour 

 variation in Iris bracteata (normally a yellow-flowered form) was 

 also exhibited with flowers of a purplish tint, and the beautiful 

 /. laevigata, so often confused with /. Kaempferi. 



