XXXVin PROCEEDINGS, 



provided tea for the party, wliicli, by tlie accession of members of 

 the Hitchin Natural History Club, had more than doubled its 

 numbers. Here Mr. T. B. Blow and Mr. Henry Groves showed 

 some rare plants which they had just gathered in the neighbour- 

 hood, including Trifolium ocliroleucon, Huds. ; (Enanthe Lachenalii, 

 Gmel. ; Bulhocastanum LinncBi, Schur. ; Orohanclie major, L. 

 (parasitical on Centauria scabiosa) ; Samolus Valerandi, L. ; Carex 

 lepidocarpa, Tausch.; and Fhleum phalaroides, Koel. The (Enanthe, 

 Samolus, and Phleum are the rarest of these. The localities in 

 which they grow in the neighbourhood of Hitchin will be found 

 in Pry or' s ' Flora of Hertfordshire.' 



Mr. Eansom has a fine collection of antiquities, which were 

 examined with much interest, especially a case of Phoenician glass 

 at least 2,500 years old; Eoman pottery and coins found in the 

 neighbourhood f and a large collection of implements of the Palseo- 

 lithic, IS'colithic, and Bronze Ages. 



Before the party separated a vote of thanks was accorded to 

 Mr. Eansom for his hospitality and the trouble he had taken 

 to make the meeting a complete success. 



Field Meeting, 13th October, 1894. 

 ALDBUET AND ASHEIDGE PARK. 



The members, who numbered more than at any previous fungus 

 foray of the Society, assembled at Tring Station at half -past ten, 

 and walked through the village of Aldbury and up the slopes 

 of Moneybmy Hill to the Bridgewater Monument, commencing the 

 collection of fungi in the village, on an old tree near the pond, and 

 being busily at work all the way. Some then walked to Little 

 Gaddesden for lunch ; others who had brought it with them partook 

 of it by the Monument ; and while the most enthusiastic fungologists 

 prosecuted their investigations in the immediate neighbourhood, 

 others went farther afield, walking through the Avenue, about two 

 miles in length, to Ashridge House, and returning by a more 

 circuitous route through the Park and over the Common, searching 

 for fungi all the way. With the exception of one member, who 

 had to leave by an earlier train than the rest, for Luton by way of 

 Leighton, all had tea together at the "Greyhound" in Aldbury, 

 and then walked to Tring Station for the 4.51 train for Watford, 

 St. Albans, and other places. 



The meeting was under the direction of Mr. Hopkinson, and the 

 fungi which were collected were determined by Mr. George Massee, 

 of Kew ; Mr. James Saunders, of Luton, recording the Mycetozoa. 



The following is a list of the fungi recorded by Mr. Massee. It 

 comprises 185 species, of which 65 are for the first time recorded 

 for Hertfordshire. To these an asterisk (*) is affixed. The rare 

 species, 4 in number, are indicated by an obelisk (f ), and the edible 

 species by a double dagger (J). 



