CH PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
out injury. It had been identified by Mr. Baker as N. Tazetta 
var. aureus, and is well figured in the late Mr. Moggridge’s Flora 
of Mentone. The Rev. H. H. Crewe observed that the Tazetta 
group was imperfectly understood. Precocity of inflorescence 
might arise from change of habit without any distinction of 
species. He had a single bulb of a white flowering Tazetta with 
yellow cup, received from Malta, which bloomed two successive 
years in October, and a Galanthus, gathered by Lord Walsing- 
ham either in Greece or Albania, which had for three seasons 
running bloomed in October. Mr. Baker pronounced the 
Narcissus, as far as he was able to decide, to be patulus, Lois, 
(Hermione patula, Haw,) but said this was a late vernal species. 
He also said that he could see nothing in the Galanthus which 
differed from the ordinary G. nivale. 
Vegetable Remains from Ancient River Gravels .—Mr. Worthington 
G. Smith exhibited under the microscope a series of preparations 
of vegetable and other remains he had found in situ associated 
with Palaeolithic implements in the drift gravels of the Lea and 
Axe. The Lea remains were 12 and the Axe remains 80 feet 
beneath the surface. Under the microscope the minute struc¬ 
ture of the plant-remains was clearly seen, the fragments of 
cellular tissue, epidermis, &c., in some specimens being very 
perfect. One slide with a piece of human hair, stained and 
corroded by the gravelly matrix from which it was taken, 
attracted considerable attention. Mr. Smith’s collection of 
microscopic objects of Palaeolithic age included fragments of 
leaves and roots of plants, a seed or two, hairs belonging to 
various mammalia, a portion of a feather, and several objects of 
unknown nature. The- gravel from which the remains were 
derived was dug by Mr. Smith himself. 
Plants Exhibited.— From Mr. B S. Williams came a specimen 
of a plant supposed to be the Pandanophyllum humile of Haskarl, 
a Pandanus-like plant of tufted habit, with triangular stock and 
sheathing, strap-shaped leaves, tapering into a long point. The 
flowers are inconspicuous, and borne in close spikes raised on a 
terete peduncle. The plant is of much botanical interest, being 
allied to Pandanacese and Cyperacese. It has lately been 
referred to the genus Hypolytrum, and is a native of Java. It 
has been cultivated at Kew for several years. A Botanical 
Certificate was awarded on the ground of botanical interest. 
