EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Sir Joseph D. Hooker, C.B., President P.S., in the Chair. 
Fungoid Diseases of the Vine .—Dr. M. C. Cooke read a farther 
communication on this subject, which will appear in the present 
number of the Journal. 
Encephalartos lanuginosus. — From Mr. Tillett, Sprowston 
Lodge, Norwich, came a noble cone of this species, weighing 29-^ lbs., 
also a leaf of the same. The cone first became conspicuous in 
July, 1876. Mr. Tillett finds the plant succeeds admirably out of 
doors in the summer weather. 
Sir Joseph Hooker remarked that if these plants are exposed 
in the open air, without protection even in summer, and there 
happened to be a cold or stormy month, they are so severely injured 
that years may elapse before they get into condition again. For 
this reason they had quite given up putting them out at Kew. 
He was afraid that the seeds in the cone were not likely to be 
fertile. 
Hybrid Cypripedium. —Dr. Masters showed, on the part of Mr. 
Douglas, a hybrid raised between Cypripedium villosum as the 
male parent, and C. barbatum as the female parent. The result 
was much more like villosum than barbatum , but if the cross 
be made in the opposite direction, the offspring more nearly re¬ 
sembles the last-named; thus showing that the pollen parent in 
this case exercises the more potent influence. 
Fasciated Mistleto. —Dr. Masters also showed, from Mr. Cor- 
deroy, a specimen of Mistleto with very numerous contracted 
branches, forming a tufted growth of peculiar appearance, which is 
said by Mr. Corderoy to be constant. 
Curved Branches of Horse Chestnut. —Adverting to some speci¬ 
mens lately exhibited by the President, Dr. Masters showed a 
branch wherein the buds on one side of the stem were greatly 
reduced in size, those on the opposite side being of the ordinary 
size. In consequence of this a curvature had taken place along 
the free growing side. 
Monstrous Iris. —Mr. M. P. Edgeworth showed a drawing of a 
monstrous Iris, in which the sepals were like the petals in appear¬ 
ance, and in which a fourth anther was present. 
Disease in Ash. —Mr. Wilson- Saunders contributed a paper, 
accompanied by beautiful drawings, illustrative of a peculiar ulper- 
ation or canker in the bark of the common Ash. 
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