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shows the aposporous " pulcherrimum " character very 

 thoroughly and beautifully, the tiny crest-like expansions 

 of the terminals being actual prothalli, such as are 

 normally produced by the spore as a preliminary to 

 the sexual action, which results in a new generation. 

 This mode of reproduction, however, would appear to 

 be somewhat defective, since it is very exceptional 

 for the young plants so raised to be perfect, the great 

 majority being mere rags and tatters, and devoid of any 

 constitutional vigour. 



THE AUGUST MEETING. 



In accordance with the resolution passed at the 

 Annual Meeting of 1913 at Totnes, the n^eeting was 

 held this year in Eskdale, Cumberland, at the 

 Woolpack Hotel there, on Monday, August 3rd. The 

 locality in the picturesque vale of the Esk, embosomed 

 amid the Cumberland Hills, was naturally very rich 

 in the several species common to mountainous regions in 

 Great Britain, but unfortunately the weather was not 

 so propitious as it might have been, and was better 

 calculated to increase the beauty of the innumerable 

 cascades which seamed the hill sides with their snowy 

 torrents than it was to facilitate exploration, frequent 

 showers interspersed with Scotch, or rather Cumberland, 

 mists of the drizzle category forming a serious handicap. 

 Despite this, however, a few finds were recorded in the 

 shape of angustate and possibly plumose forms of Lastvea 

 montana by Mr. W. R. Boyd, whose octogenarian 

 activity and sharp-sightedness was marvellous; a very 

 attenuate lineare form of P. aquilina by Mr. A. Cowan ; 

 a very hard, leathery crispate form of same species by 

 Mr, J. J. Smithies ; a bright golden yellow variety of 

 L. montana by Mr. W. Bell; and a crispate Lastrea filix 



