2i4. Field Meetings, 1907. 
ROPSLEY RISE, for a Fungus Foray, but the season was a bad 
one for this purpose. A dry September had not been conducive to 
the upspringing of the fungi. Mr. H. C. Hawley reports :— 
Func1 at Ropstey. Everywhere this year Fungi have been 
scarce and Ropsley was no exception. The wood, which there was 
an attempt made to explore, proved somewhat of a jungle, not 
very moist but with a considerable amount of rotting wood, etc., 
on the ground which in most years would have produced a good 
yield. As it was by the time that the party had forced their way 
across the wood, a fair number of the smaller fungi had been 
collected, but few or none of the larger fleshy kinds. This was 
the more disappointing, as at present records of all sorts for South 
Lincolnshire are very few. In all 58 species were identified of 
which the best were :— 
Lycoperdon perlatum, PERS. 
Mevulius tremellosus, SCHRAD. 
. Agaricus hemorrhoidarius, SCHULY. 
Crepidotus haustellaris, FR. 
Pluteolus aleuriatus, FR. 
Pleurotus acerosus, FR, 
Laccaria laccata var. amethystina, BOTT. 
Mitrula serpentina, (0. F. MUELL). 
Phragmidium sangutsorbe, (D.C.) 
And the Botanical Secretary reports. 
From the botanical point of view the meeting at Grantham 
for Ropsley and Ropsley Rise on the 3rd, and Great Ponton and ~ 
Stroxton on the 4th, was a great success. Between 300 and 400 
notes were taken. The soils being Lincolnshire Limestone and — 
Chalky Boulder Clay, Upper Lias Clay, and Fresh Water 
Alluvium, Alchemilla vulgavis appeared to be unusually rare in 
Ropsley Rise, while Angelica sylvestris was magnificent rising to 
gi feet, where it was drawn up in close wood. Aquilegia was 
only detected asa garden escape at Stroxton Artemisia vulgaris 
was noticed twice in the old quarry on Spitalgate Hill, and at the 
cross roads west of Great Ponton and South of Stroxton. Asperula 
