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The following places and days were appointed for the Field Meetings 

 for the present year : — 



Tuesday, Blay 21fch— The Forest of Deerfold. 



Tuesday, June 21st — Ecss and the Wye (Ladies' day), 



Friday, July 22nd — Llangorse Lake. 



Friday, August 19th — The Longmynd HUls, Shropshire. 



Thursday, Oct. 6th — Hereford, for the "Fungus Foray." 



A communication was then made that the British Archreological Associa- 

 tion intended to hold its congi-ess at Hereford this year, at the end of July or 

 the beginning of August, and invited the members of the club to assist in its 

 investigation of the archseological objects of interest in the city and neigh- 

 bourhood. 



The Chairman of the Central Committee announced that the publication 

 of the Flora of the County, by the Rev. W. H. Purchas, had already commenced, 

 and would, he trusted, be steadily continued untQ completed. He then 

 exhibited some very beautifully coloured illustrations by Worthington G. Smith, 

 Esq., F.L.S., of rare funguses, discovered last year by the members of the 

 Woolhope Club. 



The first drawing shown was the Polypiyi'iiS annosus, found last February 

 by "VTm. Adams, Esq., F.G.S., president of the Cardiff Club, in a deep unused 

 gallery, or heading, of the Llondu coUiery, Parkslip, near Cai-diflE. It has the 

 peculiarity of being phosphorescent, and when abundant, lights up the dark 

 galleries in a peculiar manner. 



The next fungus was the Lentinus lepideus, a rai-e fungus first found by 

 Dr. T. Algernon Chapman gi-owing from between the timbers on the underside of 

 a railway bridge at Abergavenny. It was found also by Elmes Y. Steel«, Esq., in 

 another locality at Abergavenny. Dr. Bull found it under the roadway of the 

 Shelwick railway bridge, near Hereford, and it was afterwards observed in several 

 other places, but always growing precisely in the same situation. 



The next figures represented a fine golden-coloured fungus, Cortinariua 

 ( Phhgmacium ) fulgens, which was found growing under oak trees at Vennwood 

 in September last. It is not quite new to the British flora, though it is not 

 mentioned in Berkeley's work. It has once ^jefore been found in England, by 

 Mr. Broome, the celebrated mycologist. 



The last sheet, however, represented a fungus quite new to Britain. It 

 was first exhibited by Dr. Bull, at Kensington, in ISGS, and was found by him 

 several times last autumn at Dinedor and in Haywood Forest. It is a striking 

 fungus, of a dark brown gingerbread colour, and its name is Cortinarius 

 (Phhgmacmm) russus. At the suggestion of Mr. AVortbington Smith, and with 

 the kind offer of his assistance, it was unanimously decided that a coloured 

 lepresentation of this new Cortinariua should be published in the forthcoming 

 volume of the Transactions of the Club. 



