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locality, but owing to the intense and long continued 

 drought, hunting was severely handicapped, the ferns in 

 many places being scorched and flaccid, and their growth so 

 stunted as to mask their varietal character, if any, to an 

 unrecognisable extent. Dr. Stansfield, however, found an 

 Asp. ad. nigvitm with multifid frond tips throughout and some 

 very foliose forms of L. moniana ; Mr. Druery, among other 

 minor finds, discovered a Hartstongue on lobatum lines but 

 with all frond terminals symmetrically rounded off with sori 

 radiating round the abruptly shortened midrib like the 

 figures on a clock dial, a rare variant which he named 

 Scol. V. lohattun radiosorum. Mr. W. B. Cranfield was the 

 most fortunate, alighting upon two remarkably fine varieties, 

 one a wild deltoid foliose form of Lastvea filix vms with 

 broad dilatata-like basal pinnae, and the other, on private 

 ground, a peculiarly fine foliose and imbricate variety of 

 P. aciileatum on truly handsome lines which had been found 

 many years ago near Holsworthy. He also found a very 

 marked form of Scol. v. undulatum. 



The weather throughout was most delightful and the 

 meeting was a pronounced success in every way. Of the 

 business meeting itself the following are the minutes : — 



Minutes of the 2oth Annual Meeting of the British 

 Pteridological Society, held at the Golden Lion, Barn- 

 staple, at g.30 a.m., on August 7th, 1911, with twelve 

 members present as per signatures on opposite page, Mr. 

 Alexander Cowan as President taking the chair. 



The Hon. Secretary, Mr. Chas. T. Druery, read the 

 minutes of last meeting of 1910, which were confirmed on 

 the motion of Dr. F. W. Stansfield, seconded by Mr. 

 Eley, and signed by the President. 



Mr. W. B. Cranfield as Hon. Treasurer then produced the 

 Balance Sheet as appended to these minutes, shewing an 

 increase of £g 1 7s. 4d. in the Society's funds and duly audited 

 by Mr. J.J. Smithies, and on the motion of Mr. Cowan, 

 seconded by Mr. Bell, it was approved and accepted. 



The election of President and ofiicers for the ensuing year 



