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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
covered its floral items being white instead of yellow. All these 
plants seemed hardy in England, but owing to their very early 
flowering habit, were best treated as pot plants, or protected by a 
hand light in spring. 
Snowdrops. —Mr. Elwes also showed flowers of GalantJius El- 
wesii (Hooker fill, to show the characters by which it differed from 
GalantJius imperati and other forms. He thought there could be 
no doubt that it was a perfectly distinct species. 
Varieties of Hornbeam, Hazel, Beech. —Dr. Hogg exhibited two 
forms of each of these. He had been unable to trace any mention of 
this interesting fact being noticed either by botanists or in any 
book on forestry, but practical men who are accustomed to work 
in the woods say that they find a very marked distinction between 
them. There was a white and a black Hazel, a white and a black 
Birch, a white and a black Hornbeam, distinguished by the 
colour of the bark. There was considerable difference between the 
two kinds of each of these, not only in the colour of the bark, 
but also in the different character of the wood. All three are 
very much used for withes for tying up faggots, but the wood 
of the black varieties is not nearly so tough as the white, 
and the woodmen never use the black Hornbeam for 
this purpose, as it is quite brittle and useless. The white 
Hornbeam is as tough as a willow. The difference in character was 
clearly constitutional; the twigs exhibited were all cut the same 
day. It is to be hoped that these different forms will be more 
closely examined when they come into flower. The black Hazel is 
much rarer than the white. In the Weald of Sussex the Horn¬ 
beam is called the Beech, and the black variety the Husbeech. 
Gall's on Willow. —Dr. Hogg also showed some "Willow twigs 
upon which were Galls, which were pronounced to be those of 
Cecidomyia , containing Dipterous larvae. 
Seedling Primrose. —Mr. G. E. Wilson showed a new seedling 
Primrose which he had raised, the colour of which was a rich 
Tyrean purple. There were several of the principal Primrose 
growers at the Eloral Committee, who all said it was of a perfectly 
new colour. The name “ Scott Wilson ” was given to it. 
Fuchsias , Sfc. —Mr. Green, gardener to Sir George Macleay, 
introduced by Mr. Elwes, showed two species of Euchsia which 
had often been confounded—id splendens and F. cordifolia. The 
latter is exceedingly rare ; Sir J. Hooker remarked that they had 
not got it at 3£ew. There are no Fuchsias found north of the 
