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LONDON Royal Horticultural Society, June 18.—Scientific Committee.—Dr. Hooker, C.B., F.R.S., in the chair.—Dr. Capanema, from Rio Janeiro, described the destruction in Brazil of orange, peach, and cotton plants, more especially at Milagres, in the province of Ciara, from the attacks of a Coccus. An orange tree of historic interest more than 200 years old had been destroyed by this insect.—Dr. Masters, F.R.S., reported upon a double-flowered variety of Lobeiia erinus. The calyx was normal, the corolla was affected by a dédoublement, the stamens were more or less petaloid, the ovary was represented by obscure carpellary leaves bearing ovules on the margins.—Mr. Lane, of Berkhampstead, sent a cutting of a yellow-leaved variety of Laburnum which had broken from an old stem of the ordinary kind previously budded some time before with the yellow one. The buds which were inserted died, but as in other cases the tendency to variegation in the foliage had been communicated to the stock.—The Rev. M. J. Berkeley stated that he had provisionally referred the thread blight which had attacked the tea plantations in India to corticium repens Berk.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 8, 255–256 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008255a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/008255a0