EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 
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Xiphion caucasicum .—Mr. Elwes showed a specimen of this 
singular green-flowered Iris with closely set two ranked leaves, 
common near Tiflis. 
JErythronium sp. from Colorado, flowered this year for the first 
time ; it flowers erect, in which respect it differed from any other, 
it has been known in California for two or three years. 
Narcissus rupicola from the Sierra de Guadarama near Madrid, 
allied to N. juncifolius , but distinct and better than any variety of 
that plant at present known. 
ELORAL COMMITTEE. 
Medals awarded.~$\\vev‘g]lt Elora to Messrs. Jas. Veitch and 
Sons, for groups -of Hyacinths, Tulips, &c.; Small Gold Banksian 
to Messrs. Osborne and Sons, for group of plants ; Silver Elora to 
Messrs. Cutbush and Son, for group of Hyacinths ; Bronze Elora 
to Messrs. Jas. Carter and Co., for group of Hyacinths; Silver 
Elora to Mr. B. S. Williams, for group of plants; Silver Banksian 
to Mr. J. Aldous, and also to Mr. J. Wills, for group of 
plants; Bronze Elora to Mr. R. Dean, for group of hardy spring 
flowers. Eirst-class certificates were awarded to Messrs. James 
Yeitch, for Hyacinth “ King of Blacks” for Magnolia Halleana, and 
for Bollia Patinii ; to Messrs. W. Cutbush and Son, for Hyacinth 
“ Grand Master to Messrs. Barr and Sugden, for Narcissus in - 
comparabilis aureotinctus Leedsii ; to Mr. Mill, gardener to Lord 
Rendlesham, for Odontoglossum pardinum. Certificate of Botanical 
Commendation was awarded to the Society’s gardens at Chiswick 
for JDendrobium linguceforme. Votes of thanks were passed to Mr. H. 
Parr, for Begonia glaucifolioj ; to Mr. W. Caudwell, for cut flowers 
of Polyanthus ; to Mr. Mill, for cut bloom of Cattleya Shinneri ; 
to G. E. Wilson, Esq., E.R.S., for Brythronium grandiflorum; to Mr. 
H. Cannell, for cut blooms of Pelargonium ; and to Messrs. Barr 
and Sugden, for cut blooms of Iris stylosa and persicum. 
ERT3TT COMMITTEE. 
Cultural Commendation was awarded to Mr. Iggulden, gar¬ 
dener to R. B. Wingfield Baker, Esq., of Orsett Hall, Romford, 
for a dish of fine Tomatos, across between Sim’s Mammoth and 
Hathaway’s Excelsior. 
