Field Meetings, 1909. 151 
Mr. G. W. Mason reports as follows:—A very cold day 
with a north-east wind spoilt what might have been a good day 
for Entomologists, although the sun shone fitfully. Nocton 
Woods appeared to be splendid ground for Lepidoptera, but the 
weather was too cold even to find moths sitting on the tree 
‘trunks, and the long distance to be traversed prevented any 
effective work being done for larve with the beating stick. The 
following were observed by other members of the Union and 
myself, namely :—Pievis brassicae, P. napi, Cenonympha pamphilus, 
Xylophasia ruvea, light examples of Tephrosia biundulavia, T. punctu- 
lavia, Cabeva pusavia, Emmelesia albulata, Melamppe montanata, 
Sciaphila hybridana, Oecophora tinctella, and larvee of Vanessa urtice 
‘(in hundreds on a clump of nettles just outside Nocton Wood), 
Porthesia similis, Pecilocampa populi, Diloba cevuleocephala, Calymnia 
tvapezina, Phigalia pedavia, Hybernia defoliaria, Cheimatobia brumata, 
Tortrix crategana, T. xylosteana, and Laverna phragmitella (from 
‘bulrush heads). Numbers of V. uvtice were reared, but no 
notable varieties appeared. More than a hundred L. phragmitella 
were bred from the few bulrush heads that were taken. 
The Rev. E. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock reports the flora 
as follows :—A variety of soils rarely covered at a single meeting 
of the Union, varied as woodland, pasture, meadow, garden 
_ ground, and roadside, lent a delightful charm to this outing. 
_ The plants were commensurate with the diversity of their environ- 
ment. If nothing quite unknown to the Union’s register was 
met with, the rarity of some of the species was interesting 
enough.to satisfy the most importunate demands of the youngest 
neophyte of Flora. Alchemilla vulgaris was common on chalky 
boulder clay and drift sand. Athyrium Filix-femina and Haben- 
aria vivescens on Old River gravel, along with Luzula pilosa and 
Nechevia claviculata, a lovely wilding and one of our rarest now. 
Nymphoides peltatum was discovered for the second time in South 
_ Lincolnshire in the shallow water of the pond below Nocton 
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Hall on chalky boulder clay. Over 200 species were recorded 
in all. 
The sixty-fifth Field Meeting was held on July 8th, r1g09, 
and a fair number of the members of the Union turned out ‘to 
