SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, FEBRUARY 28. 



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Scientific Committee, February 28, 1911. 



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

 sixteen members present. 



Galanthus hybrid (?). — Mr. Bowles showed drawings of the 

 Galanthus exhibited by Mr. Elwes at the last meeting, and reported 

 that in structure and appearance it approached certain hybrids of G. 

 Elwesii. He thought it might be a hybrid of that species with G. 

 caucasicus, but the characters shown by seedhngs which Mr. Elwes, 

 F.E.S., said would probably flower next year would throw further 

 light upon the parentage. Mr. Elwes showed a photograph of a group 



Fig. 69. — Saxifraga x bursictjlata. (Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



Hippeastrum calyptratum. — Mr. Worsley showed flowers of the 

 unspotted form of this species from his garden. 



Lopezia racemosa. — Mr. Odell showed flowering shoots of this 

 plant, and commented upon the peculiar method of pollination. 



Gall on Willow, — Mr. Eraser, F.L.S., brought stem galls upon 

 Salix purpurea Lamhertiana similar in appearance and structure to 

 those produced on S. auriia, &c., by the dipteron Gecidomyia salicis, 

 and which he thought had probably been formed by that insect, 

 although they were usually found attacking only sallows. 



Hybrid Hippeastrum. — Mr. Elwes showed flowers from plants the 

 result of a cross between Hippeastrum equestre and H. x ' Sir 



