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Professor Thiselton Dyer stated that a very similar Phrynium, 
with weak, scrambling stems extending to twenty feet, is known 
from Upper Guinea. 
A note was read from Dr. Bos well- Syme, On the Fertilisation 
of Grasses " (Journ. IS'.S., iv., pp. 7-8). 
Mr. McLachlan stated that the flowers of Juncacece were visited 
by insects. 
k further note from Dr. Boswell-Syme stated that at Balmuto a 
Spanish Chestnut never fruits. The styles are apparently perfect, 
but the anthers are not developed from want of heat. At Culross, 
twenty miles to the west, by the Forth, which is much warmer, 
fruit is ripened in all but unfavourable years. 
Mr. Berkeley laid before the Committee specimens of Cinchona 
bark brought from the Nilghiris by Dr. Thomson, showing the 
rapid development of new bark in places from which the old 
bark had been previously stripped off, the exposed surface 
being protected from the action of the atmosphere by a covering 
of moss. Fifteen months is sufficient to reproduce bark fit for 
commercial purposes. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
J. Bateman, Esq., F.E-.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. Berkeley remarked that the diseased Peach-trees, which have 
lately been brought several times under the notice of the Com- 
mittee, had been affected partly by climatic conditions and partly 
by the bad state of their roots. The celebrated tree at Chatsworth, 
which had greatly declined, was effectually restored by supplying 
entirely new soil. As regarded some diseased shoots before the 
meeting, a specimen of the soil, consisting greatly of Beech-mast 
covered with fungous spawn, was a sufficient indication of the 
cause. It was, however, impossible always to assign- the cause. 
Two seedling Figs raised by himself and Dr. Hogg were both 
affected by a similar canker. Specimens of Cinchona bark were 
sent by Dr. Thomson from the Nilghiris, where the trees were 
allowed to grow three years before the bark was stripped off, a 
portion of the old bark being left, which caused the young bark to 
grow freely and well. 
Prof. Thiselton Dyer made some remarks on Dr. Welwitsch's speci- 
