lxxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
it was almost useless to send specimens in sucli a condition. As a 
remedy, some preparation of sulphur might be tried. 
Injury to Pines — Mr. McLachlan showed specimens of Pines 
(P. sylvestris ), the young shoots of which were matted and felted 
together by a white web, the work of a species of Tortrix. 
The injury was spread over so large an area that hand-picking 
and other means of combating the evil were ineffectual. Mr. 
McLachlan also exhibited a moth which he had bred from one of 
these larvae. It was a variety of Pcedisca occultana. 
Sugar-cane Disease. —Specimens were again shown from Porto 
Pico, in which the cane was bored by some insect ; hut in the total 
absence of all history of the invasion, and in the absence of 
specimens of the insect, no more definite opinion could he given. 
The cane had been split in every direction in the hope of finding 
some beetle, but without success. The larvae of some species allied 
to the Cockchafer had been found in the tubs, but it was impos¬ 
sible that the beetle from this larva could emerge from the small 
holes in the cane. 
Virginian Creeper.—PsLr. "W. G. Smith exhibited a drawing of a 
bottle containing water and a. plant in the grasp of a tendril of Ampe- 
lopsis hederacea. Mr. Smith said that on one’of the walls of his house 
he had a large Yirginian Creeper'growing, and a week or two ago he 
noticed, when the hanging branches were disturbed by the wind, 
that there was a jingling noise against the wall near one of the 
first floor windows. On going to the spot to discover the cause of 
the noise, he found a bottle tightly grasped round the neck by a 
tendril of the Ampelopsis. The bottle, which contained water and 
a specimen of Phyteuma orbiculare , weighed just over three ounces. 
It had been taken by the Creeper off the sill of a window above, 
and lowered (as the branches grew downward) several feet, nearly 
to the level of the window below. 
Juice distilled by Polyporus dryadeus. —Mr. Smith showed a 
phial containing the juice naturally distilled by this woody Fungus 
from the trunk of the Oak. P. dryadeus is a not uncommon 
parasite of the Oak, and it is invariably studded with large drops of 
moisture near the margin of its pileus. The moisture is derived 
from the tree on which the Fungus grows. The juice, which was 
obtained by Dr. Pull of Hereford, was, said Mr. Smith, sweet to 
the taste, and probably devoid of tannin; on a microscopical 
examination it displayed a number of germinating spores, a few 
crystals, some cells belonging to' the Fungus; and a number of 
