SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
January ii, 1916. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, and nine members 
present. 
Hybrid Mint. — Mr. J. Fraser, F.L.S., showed a specimen of a 
Mint which he had collected near Aberdeen, and which he regarded 
as a possible hybrid between Mentha aquatica and M. piperita. It 
was the only specimen growing in a quantity of the latter plant, 
and had much of the habit of that species, but was very hairy. He 
thought it had probably inherited its hairiness from M. aquatica. 
It was different from M. pubescens (M. nepetioides, as it is called on 
the Continent). 
Brodiaea Sellowiana. — Mr. A. Worsley showed a flower of this 
pretty little species of Brodiaea which he had had growing in a house 
for many years, but which died out of doors. It does not appear to 
be hardy. 
Massonia pustulata. — Mr. Bowles showed a specimen of this inter- 
esting plant from Mr. Elwes. A Botanical Certificate was awarded to 
it when last shown in 1906. He also showed a remarkable flower of 
Galanthus cilicicus, much larger and finer than usual, from the same 
source. It had appeared among imported bulbs. 
" Sporting" of Bouvardia. — Mr. W. Bateson, F.R.S., showed a 
sport from the pale pinkish form of Bouvardia, known as ' Brides- 
maid,' like ' Hogarth ' in every way, i.e. of a red colour. It had 
occurred among plants raised from cuttings of the former. He 
suggested that the probable explanation of the sporting was that 
' Bridesmaid ' was a chimaera, and that, as the buds on the root-cuttings 
were produced from the central tissues of the root only, the outer 
covering present in ' Bridesmaid ' was lacking in the plants propagated 
from it. Such sporting in root-cuttings has been recorded several 
times, especially some years ago, and the Committee would be glad 
to learn of other similar cases. 
Fasciated Daphne Laureola.< — Mr. C. H. Curtis sent very remark- 
able shoots of Daphne Laureola which had occurred in the garden at 
Scratby Hall, Yarmouth. The stem was flattened and spread out in 
a fan-like manner, so that many hundreds of small shoots were 
produced in a cockscomb-like termination to the branches. 
Fasciated Primula malacoides.' — Mr. Curtis also sent from his own 
garden an inflorescence of Primula malacoides with very numerous 
flowers in the whorls, from the first of which several branches bearing 
many-flowered whorls had arisen. 
