XXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



William. ' The plants flowered at two years of age, and bore red flowers 

 (as usual with equestre crosses), varying, however, in shade and mark- 

 ings. Mr. Elwes undertook to report later upon these hybrids when 

 more of the same cross had flowered. 



Fasciated Orchid. — Mr. Gurney Wilson, F.L.S., showed a plant of 

 Brassocattlaelia x Fowleri, in which one of the pseudo-bulbs had 

 forked before flowering, and both forks appeared likely to flower. Mr. 

 Wilson remarked that malformations of plant and flower appeared to be 

 much more frequent in trigeneric hybrids than in crosses between the 

 species. 



Narcissus cyclamineus x A^. minimus. — Mr. Bowles showed a plant 

 of this cross raised by Mr. Chapman. 



Saxifraga x hursiculata. — A hybrid between Saxifraga Burseriana $ 

 and S. apiculata ^ came from Mr.' Jenkins. The plant was remark- 

 ably vigorous and free flowering. In the length of the peduncle, its 

 greenish colour, and in the form of the calyx, the hybrid resembled 

 S. apiculata. The whiteness of the corolla and the crimped edges of 

 the petals called to mind S. Burseriana, as did the spiny and glaucous 

 characters of the foliage. In the size of the rosettes and the horizontal 

 spreading of the leaves it resembled S. apiculata. The other seedlings 

 raised from the same capsule included two yellows, one poor and weedy 

 looking, and 10 plants indistinguishable from S. Burseriana (see 

 fig. 69). 



Beetle boring hark of Austrian Pine. — Canon Ellacombe sent 

 a piece of the bark of Pinus austriaca bored by a beetle, which Canon 

 Fowler reported upon as follows : ' ' The borings of the beetle in the 

 bark of the Austrian Pine are very old, and there is no trace of either 

 beetle or larva to be found. I think it probable, however, that the 

 injury was done by Hylastes ater, which attacks various kinds of Pine, 

 both roots and trunk; it is a rather common and widely distributed 

 insect in England, but apparently commoner in Scotland. This is, j 

 however, surmise, as it is impossible to be certain; the wood looked as j 

 if it had been used for a pergola or fence of some sort, and was quite } 

 dry and ancient. " I 



Double Arum. — Miss Musgrave sent a specimen of Richardia 

 africana having the leaf next to the inflorescence wholly white except 

 for a slight green mottling. Miss Musgrave said that the sanie plant 

 had produced similar growths in former years. : 



Fasciation in Primula malacoides. — The Venerable Archdeacon; 

 Donne sent a water-colour drawing of Primula malacoides with a i 

 fasciated stem. | 



Scientific Committee, Maecii 14, 1911. * j 



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



members present. j 



Primula sinensis (stellata), . abnormalities in. — Mr. Worsley showed 

 flowers of the stellata form of P. sinensis, havmg two to five anti- 



