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Narbonne. The disease is called Anthracnose ; the fungus causing it is Phoma 

 uvicola. He spoke of the importance of studying its habits and history, in the 

 hope eventually some means might be found for remedying or preventing its 

 destructive attacks, and he incited English mycologists to assist. 



Mr. WoRTHiNGTON SiiiTH exhibited under the microscope some fossil 

 zoospores of a peronospora that had been observed in the scalariform tissue of a 

 fern. The fungus had Uved previous to the formation of the coal measures. It 

 was curious to notice how closely it agreed in size and habit with the fungus that 

 now attacks the potato. 



Mr. VizE described and showed specimens of Puccinia conii, which differs 

 from other puccinise in ha%'ing multUocular spores, and is especially interesting 

 because it confirms a discovery of a similar nature by Gre\Tlle. 



Dr. Cooke read a clever technical paper on a new classification of the myxo- 

 gasters, by Rocldtansld, and pointed out its difference from the arrangement in 

 the handbook. 



Mr. Phillips made some remarks on a Peziza, whose sporules were 

 appendiculate. 



There was stiU another paper that had been rather eagerly expected, on the 

 "Herefordshire Mosses," by the Rev. Augustin Ley, but it was postponed, as it 

 was too promising a subject to hurry through at so late an hour. 



M00llj0p^ Jiattxraltsts' f'ulh ffilub, 



April 23rd, 1878. 



TITHE annual meeting of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club was held at the 



^ Club Room, Hereford, on Tuesday, April 23rd. Present : The President, 



J. Griffith Morris, Esq. ; the President elect, the Rev. H. W. Phillott : 



the Treasurer, Thomas Cam, Esq. ; James Rankin, Esq., Rev. J. F. Crouch, Dr. 



Bull, Dr. Chapman, Rev. W. C. Fowle, Messrs. Kempson, Swinburne, James 



Davies, Curley, Vassar-Smith, SouthaU, Paris, Chapman, Theo. Lane, and others. 



Mr. TheophUus Lane was appointed Secretary in the place of the late Mr. 



A. Thompson. The financial statement was read and approved. A complete set 



of nature-printed plates of all the English ferns presented to the club by their 



hon. treasurer, Thomas Cam, Esq., was laid out for the inspection of the members. 



