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Clustered Bell-flower ; Spinm filipendula, Drop- wort ; Enjthma 

 centanrixm, Centaury ; Echiuia vulgare, Viper's Bugloss ; Pastinaca 

 satira, Parsnip (downy form) ; Verbascum blattaria [ I make it this 

 and not V. mi/ruin] ; Galenpsis ladanniii, and liupatienn parviflornm 

 [I make it this species] found by Mr. Turner." 



JVLY 21th, 1916. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited the fungus Poly par )i>i snlphureus 

 found on the occasion of the Field Meeting held at Box Hill on 

 July 22nd. It was said to be edible and to taste slightly astrin- 

 gent. Its odour was fragrant, becoming disagreeable. Its habitat 

 was living trees and stumps of oak, yew, chestnut, willow, cherry, 

 alder, poplar, walnut, pear, apple, larch, robinia, ash and pine, 

 from May to October. The pileus was covered with crystals of 

 binoxalate of potash. In times past it was much used for tinder, 

 Trte-trunks that are attacked usually rot in the centre leaving 

 the outside sound. It is sometimes phosphorescent. Ueriomyces 

 aurantiacus has been stated to be an imperfect state of this species. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a figure of a unique and extraordinary 

 form of Melanaryia (jalathea in which there was neither trace nor 

 suggestion of the black markings usual on either surface, but there 

 was a slight general suffusion of yellow. The specimen was taken 

 in July, 1843, in the neighbourhood of Walmer, Kent. 



He also showed a specimen of Euchlue cardamines in which all 

 trace of black coloration even on the underside of the hindwings 

 was absent, and an example of CoUas hyale in which the intensity 

 of all the dark and black markings was weakened to a faint dusky 

 shade. 



For some weeks he had been in Norfolk and during almost the 

 whole time there had been an extreme scarcity of insects and most 

 of the few he had met with were late in their appearance. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a short series of Parnassius apollo 

 var. valaisica from Macugnaga, South side of the Alps, and ab. 

 inontana from St. Moritz, the high mountain form. The former 

 were large in size and more brilliant in coloration, the latter were 

 small and generally less emphasised in colour and marking. 



Mr. Turner also exhibited larval cases of a number of species of 

 Coleophora, which he had bought with many similar specimens of 

 numerous genera, mostly Tineid, in a small tobacconist's shop at 



