SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE.. 
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Scientific Committee, March 7, 1916. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, and ten members 
present. 
Fasciation &c. reproduced by seed. — Mr. J. Fraser, F.L.S., showed 
some fasciated stems of Cineraria to illustrate the condition of about 
50 per cent, of a batch of seedlings of the stellata type of Cineraria. 
He also remarked upon a number of Violas with from two to five 
spurs having occurred in a batch of seedlings. 
Fasciated Plants.— Fasciated specimens of Polemonium caeruleum* 
Euonymus japonicus, Cotoneaster microphylla, Prunus Mahaleb, and 
Spiraea Douglasii were shown from various sources. The latter, 
which came from Camberwell Park, was one of a number of specimens 
which had occurred there. 
A Paint-destroying Fungus. > — Mr. J. Ramsbottom, F.L.S., exhibited 
some pieces of wood which had been painted white and placed in a 
greenhouse at the Chelsea Physic Garden, on which a pink fungus, 
Phoma pigmentifera, had appeared in full fructification within five 
weeks. The fungus has been recently described by Mr. Massee. 
Scientific Committee, March 28, 1916. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, with thirteen 
members present, and Rev. J. Jacob, visitor. 
Curious Larvce.- — Mr. W. C. Worsdell, F.L.S., showed preserved 
larvae of a species of Aspidomorpha from the shores of Delagoa Bay. 
The larvae, which feed on Ipomoea, cover themselves with excreta as 
do the larvae of Cassidas in Britain. 
Meconopsis x decora.- — Mr. T. Hay, of Greenwich Park, sent a 
plant of Meconopsis X decora with white flowers. Several plants 
had been raised, some having white, some blue flowers, and after 
being cut back they freely produced flowers again. No seed was 
produced. The plants were raised from seeds obtained from India 
and from the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, under the name of M. 
Wallichii, but those raised proved to be something different. Sir D. 
Prain named it M. decora (see Kew Bull. No. 4, 1915), but subsequently 
came to the conclusion that it was a hybrid. It has appeared in several 
gardens, but whether the seed in these cases came from India or from 
Edinburgh cannot be stated. 
Narcissus cyclamineus ? X iV. Tazetta ' Soleil d'Or.' — A plant 
raised by Baron de Soutellinho, of Oporto, of this interesting cross 
was exhibited. The hybrid had a deep orange cup and a clear yellow 
spreading perianth. ' Soleil d'Or ' apparently rarely proves a good 
pollen parent. A Botanical Certificate was unanimously recommended 
for this plant. 
