SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
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Scientific Committee, February 8, 1916. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, with fourteen 
members present, and Rev. J. Jacob and Mr. W. Barr (visitors). 
Death of Canon Ellacombe.- — Mr. Bowles referred in sympathetic 
terms to the death of the oldest member of the Scientific Committee, 
Rev. Canon Ellacombe, of Bitton. The Committee unanimously desired 
that a message of sympathy should be sent to his family. 
Yellow-flowered Poinciana. — Mr. W. Fawcett, F.L.S., showed a 
specimen of a yellow-flowered form of Poinciana regia from near Bull 
Bay, Jamaica. As members of the Committee remarked, some forms 
are also more orange than others. 
Forms of Galanthus and Helleborus. — Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., 
exhibited several forms of Galanthus from his garden and elsewhere, 
remarking that, in his opinion, too many species of these plants had 
been made by botanists. The species of Galanthus are particularly 
variable, and Mr. Bowles undertook to examine and report upon those 
brought by Mr. Elwes. 
His report is as follows, grouping the forms under the species to 
which they belong : — - 
I. ' — G. nivalis. Melvillei — a major form of nivalis (Gard. Chron. 
1879, i- 237). 
Imperati represents the South European form. It seems the 
form Backhouse sent out, not that of Atkins, by the mis- 
shapen segments. 
Imperati var. Boydii. A seedling ( ? normally two-flowered) . 
(See Burbidge, R.H.S. Journal, 1891, p. 200.) 
cilicicus is an early-flowering Eastern form, with very 
narrow glaucous leaves. (See Baker, Gard. Chron. 
1897, i. 214.) 
caucasicus is a late-flowering Eastern form, which, when 
robust, produces two flowers from each pair of leaves. 
(See Baker, Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 313.) 
The Straffan Snowdrop is a fine form of caucasicus. (See 
caucasicus grandis, Burbidge, R.H.S. Journal, 1891, 
p. 203.) 
Nivalis hybrids : — 
' William Thompson ' is nivalis X plicatus. (Gard. Chron. 
Jan. 1911, fig. 20.) ' 
maximus, Baker = grandiflorus, Baker. (See Gard. Chron. 
1893, xiii. p. 656.) 
' Neil Fraser/ probably nivalis X caucasicus. 
II. — G. latifolius, true. Leaves light green, with bright gloss, 
small flowers. 
G. latifolius var. Allenii. Leaves duller, darker green. 
(See Gard. Chron. 1891, ix. p. 298, and Garden, March 
1902, p. 157.) 
