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MISCELLANEOUS. 
Highly Commended. 
Mrs. Bishopp, Esher, for Wax Flowers. 
Commended. 
Messrs. Smith and Larke, Kensington, for Bouquets and Flowers for 
Table Decoration. 
Messrs. Dick Radclyffe and Co., High Holborn, for Fountain. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., in the Chair. 
Monstrous Primrose. —Dr. Masters reported on the specimen 
exhibited by Mr. Douglas at the last meeting. The main flower- 
stalk, instead of bearing a single flower, bore a tuft of leaves, 
intermixed with which were a number of extremely deformed 
flowers, presenting many and complex changes, the most 
important of which consisted in the presence of anthers as well 
as of ovules on the margins of the same carpellary leaf. 
Insects Injurious to Cinchona in Ceylon. —The Rev. M. J. Berkeley 
sent a pupa of a large moth, possibly one of the Sphingidce, 
the larva of which feeds on the leaves of Cinchona succirubra 
in Ceylon. The specimen was not sufficient for identification. 
Lathyrus Drummondii .—The Rev. H. Harpur-Crewe submitted 
flowers of this, to show that there was no difference between the 
plant so named in gardens and L. rotundifolius. 
Grapes from the Old Wood .—The Rev. G. Henslow showed a 
specimen of a bunch of Grapes produced from the old wood—a 
state of things occasionally hut rarely met with. 
Erineum. —Dr. Masters showed from Mr. Earley, leaves of a 
Vine with thickened epidermis and dense hairs, arising, not 
from a fungus, hut from an over development of the skin of 
the leaf. 
Plants Shown. — From Mr. McIntosh: Fusion of two flowers 
of Lilium longiflorum. From Mr. Laing : Double Begonia, with 
a very long stout flower-stalk, the leaf-shoots adjacent being 
proportionately diminished in size. From Colonel Clarke : 
Watsonia spicata (Micranthus fistulosus, Klatt), W. plantaginea 
(M. plantagineus , E j usdem), and Ismene pedunculata, Herbert. From 
Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull, Perth, splendid spikes of Orchis 
maculata var. superba. From Mr. W. Heale, a new scented¬ 
leaved Pelargonium, and a bunch of 11 Little Gem ” Yiola, a 
very pretty flower with the colour of a Primrose. 
