CCXiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Fasciation in Chrysanthemum maximum. — Mr. J. R. Jackson 

 sent an example of a fasciated stem and inflorescence in this plant 

 from Lympstone. This species appears to be very subject to fascia- 

 tion. 



Onion hulh with lateral growths. — Mr. E. E. Turner sent from 

 Coggeshall, Essex, an Onion bulb having numerous greenish bulbils 

 growing from around the base, so that the original bulb was sur- 

 rounded at its base by numerous outgrowths. It may possibly have 

 arisen from a second growth being developed after a check imposed 

 by drought. 



Cabbage with hairy leaves. — Mr. A. Simmonds sent from Mitcham, 

 Surrey, a cabbage leaf having hairs upon both surfaces, especially 

 upon the veins. The wild form is often hairy, but hairiness appears 

 to be very rare in the cultivated varieties. 



Rotting of Narcissus hulhs. — Eev. J. Jacob sent some Narcissus 

 bulbs which had been attacked by the fungus Fusarium hulhigenum. 

 This was first described in Grevillea, vol. xvi. p. 49, but appears 

 not to have been troublesome since. 



Apples diseased. — Mr. Eogers sent from Hex worthy some apples 

 wuth peculiar greenish depressions on the surface, showing a well- 

 marked, brown marginal line, which also limited the spots on the 

 inner side, being there about -| inch below the surface. The trouble 

 had, apparently, developed in the store, and had occurred in a large 

 number of varieties. 



Scientific Committee, Octobee 24, 1911. 



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

 members present. 



Nerine pudica alba. — Mr. Worsley showed a white-flowered form 

 of what he regarded as Nerine pudica, a seedling raised by him some 

 time ago. He also showed ripe fruits of the variegated form of Vitis 

 heterophylla. 



Various plants. — Mr. Elwes, F.R.S., drew attention to a flower uf 

 Paeonia lutea from a plant sent out by Messrs. Vilmorin flowering for 

 the second time this year, but now, unlike its first flowering, holding its 

 flowers well above the foliage. Mr. Bowles remarked that he had a 

 form which normally flowered in this way, also from Messrs Vilmorin. 

 Mr. Elwes also showed a plant of Statice fruticans { = arborea), a 

 Canary Island species, raised from seed, and flowering well within a 

 year of seed-sowing; Aristea corymbosa, a woody iridaceous plant from 

 South Africa; and Stapelia primulina. [Dr. Perez, of Puerto Orotava, 

 subsequently sent the following note on Statice fruticans and an allied 

 Statice to- Mr. Elwes: " Being a great amateur and admirer of our 

 Canary Statices which no one in England appears to take up, although 

 S. arborea obtained a Gold Banksian Medal from the R.H.S. last 

 century, I am taking the liberty of addressing this to you and forward- 



