Enpithecia subfulvata Haw., occasionally throughout 

 the district. 

 „ Haworthiata Dbl. Wray Lane. 



„ constrictata Gn. Eeigate Hill. 



Miana arcuosa Haw. at Station gas lamp. 



Cirrhcedia xerampelina, at ditto, single specimen. 



The President exhibited leaves of Cornus alba, and 

 pointed out the very beautiful, elegant, and reg-ular way they 

 were mottled with bright yellow, and vivid green. Several 

 leaves were placed upon the table obtained from different 

 branches of the shrub, almost exactly alike in colour and 

 markings, showing that the law of discoloration was acting' 

 very uniformly over the tree from which they were taken. 

 He also exhibited the ripe fruit of a very rare species of the 

 Pear family (Pyrus cordata,) which he had recently received 

 from Brittany, through the kindness of Mr. D. Hanbury ; the 

 fruit was small, about the size of a hazel nut, brown and 

 somewhat pear shaped, it was produced iu abundance on 

 spurs along the branches, and had a jjleasant subacid taste, 

 it is used in the same way as the common medlar. The 

 president said that he had received some plants of the pear 

 In good condition, and hoped to report more fully on its 

 merits hereafter. 



Two Fimgi sent to the President by A. Way, Esq., 

 were placed upon the table ; one being the elegant cup- 

 shaped Cyathus striatus, which is not uncommonly to be seen 

 on dead sticks and decaying wood ; the other a small 

 reddish brown puff ball looking fungus, about the size of a 

 pea ; probably the Lycogala epidendrum in a young state. 



The President stated that he had quite recently had the 

 fruit of the Pocan, Phytolacca decandra^ sent to him with a 

 request that he would state whether the blackberry looking 

 fruit was edible ; and he therefore thought it desirable to 



