CXviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
the one exhibited bore four fronds with digitate extremities, one 
frond with a crisped margin (var. crispum ), and one frond as 
flat as in the wild state. (Fig. 76.) 
Tomatos with Supernumerary Carpels. —Dr. Bonavia sent 
two specimens, one consisting of four carpels, which, instead of 
being coherent to form a single fruit, were only united at the 
base, and therefore nearly apocarpous; the other had several 
extra carpels issuing out of the centre above. These formed a 
whorl of carpels in addition to the normal series. It resembled 
the 4 Mellarose Orange ’ in this respect. 
Poppy!lead with Pistillody of the Stamens .—Herr J. K. 
Budde exhibited a fruit of Papaver somniferum with a complete 
whorl of miniature carpels around the base, these being meta¬ 
morphosed stamens. This peculiarity is well known ; but it is 
interesting to hear that Prof, de Vries has succeeded in fixing it 
by selection, so that this monstrosity now comes true from seed. 
A similar phenomenon is common among Wallflowers. With 
reference to hereditary monstrosities, Prof. Bailey observed that 
a species of Echinops with a fasciated and twisted stem, as also 
the spirally twisted variety of the Fuller’s Teazle, can be now 
perpetuated from seed. Prof. Hen slow inquired if the Weeping 
Ash was known to be perpetuated by seed, as of thousands of 
seedlings in his garden at Ealing none ever showed any inclina¬ 
tion to weep, though the late Prof. J. S. Henslow found a slight 
tendency to weep to exist for two or three years in his experi¬ 
ments at Hitcham ; but the plants grew erect afterwards. Mr. 
Wilks observed, on the other hand, that out of multitudes of 
chance seedlings one young tree a few years old, at Shirley, 
had begun to show a tendency to weep. 
Crassulaceous Hybrid. —Mr. Yeitch sent trusses of flowers, 
of a new hybrid, raised by Mr. Seden, between Kalosanthes 
coccinea $ and Pochea falcata $. The flowers of the hybrid 
were small, as in the female parent, but the colour approached 
that of the male. In many points it was intermediate between 
the two parents. 
Cattleya granulosa, Dimerous. —Dr. Masters exhibited, on 
the part of Mr. Cobb, a blossom with its parts in twos, there 
being two large sepals, two lips, &c.—not a rare phenomenon in 
ordinarily trimerous flowers, as Iris, &c. 
Hybrid Nymphaas. —Dr. Masters exhibited several varieties, 
