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-(gardener to F, Williams, Esq.), for Saccolabium retusum ; to 
Mr. C. Turner, for Pelargonium “ Illuminator ,” and to Royal 
Horticultural Society, for a group of Pelargoniums from the 
Society’s gardens, Chiswick. 
FRUIT COMMITTEE. 
A First-class Certificate was awarded to Melon (green fleshed), 
“ William Tillery ,” from Mr. J. Miller (gardener to the Duke of 
Newcastle). 
June 24, 1879. 
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Lord Alfred S. Churchill, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Elections.—- H. A. W. Bisshop, Henry Cockburn, Mrs. Clayton 
East, Clement Hoey, William Bulkeley Hughes, M.P., David 
B. Lees, M.D., Arthur Parmley, Sarah De Coursey Parish, 
Lady Caroline Turnor. 
Medals Awarded.— Gold Medal to Mr. C. Turner, for a group 
of Pelargoniums, and to Mr. W. Fisher (gardener to F. 
Williams, Esq.), for a group of Gloxinias. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Arthur Grote, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair. 
Fungoid growth upon Lilies .—The Rev. M. J. Berkeley reported 
on the fungoid growth submitted to him from Mr. Elwes* 
garden, as follows:— 
“The parasite on lAlium columbianum appears to be Uredo 
Prostii, Duby, which scarcely differs from Uredo Asphodeli, D.O., 
of which Duhy, as far as I find, takes no notice. It does not 
agree with Uredo Alliorum, D.C.; Uredo Lilii differs altogether 
in its dark colored spores. Uredo Asphodeli, D.C., is given by 
Link as a synonym of Uredo Ornithogali, but it agrees neither 
with the characters, nor the specimen of Schmidt and Kunze, 
Duhy’s description exactly accords with young specimens, and the 
spores are globose, oblong, and pyriform as he describes them. 
The only question is whether it may not be an exaggerated 
form of U. Alliorum, a matter of some importance, as that is 
extremely common, while the plant of Decandolle and Duby 
