XXviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
January 16, 1917. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, and three 
members present. 
The only business before the Committee was a letter from Mr. J. 
Douglas referring to the article in The Garden on Dianthus X 
Allwoodii. The Committee desired that it should be pointed out 
that the Certificate of Appreciation was awarded to Mr. Allwood 
for his work in raising the forms which he exhibited, not to the plant, 
and that the name was applied to the whole of the hybrids between 
the Pink and the Carnation, to which cross no name had hitherto 
been given. 
Scientific Committee, January 30, 1917. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M. A., in the Chair, and four members present. 
G dianthus Elwesii var. WhiUallii. — Mr. Bowles said he had ex- 
amined a Snowdrop sent by Mr. Chapman and found it to be a form 
of G. Elwesii with very wide inner segments, so wide that they over- 
lapped considerably at the edges, giving an almost semi-double 
appearance to the flower. 
Narcissus cyclamineus hybrid. — Mr. Bowles also showed a Narcissus 
seedling from N. cyclamineus, but with broader leaves, paler corona, 
and very pale segments. The greenish inflated spathe suggested 
N. praecox as one of the parents. 
' Wood Flower.' — Mr. W. C. Worsdell, F.L.S., showed a piece of a 
branch upon which a species of Phoradendron had been growing. 
It showed the remarkable grooved expansion produced by the growth 
of the parasite, which has almost the form of a flower (giving rise to 
the common name). It came from the Argentine. 
Scientific Committee, February 13, 1917. 
Sir Everard im Thurn in the Chair, and six members present. 
Tulipa Kaufmanniana. — Mr. J. H. Chapman exhibited flowering 
plants of Tulipa Kaufmanniana, a species introduced to cultivation 
about 1877 and awarded F.C.C. 1897. The plants shown were dwarf 
bright rose on the back of the exterior segments, yellow at base inside, 
with a carmine spot about midway down the segments inside, and 
margined with pale cream or white. They were thus somewhat 
different from the form certificated and from those figured in 
