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bloom of roses was not so good as the later one. A second bloom 
occurred on some trees; on June 21st a hawthorn tree was seen covered 
with bloom near Chaldon. The potato disease appeared in August, 
and did much damage to the crop. A severe gale on September 10th— 
11th, occurring when the trees were still in foliage, did much damage, 
overturning some large trees, and breaking large limbs off others. 
Owing to the absence of frosts until late in the autumn—the first 
occurring on the night of November 18th-19th—the fields and trees 
long continued green; and the tender summer flowering plants, as 
dahlias, begonias, and nasturtiums, remained in bloom in the gardens. 
At the Society’s Annual Soirée on November 18th the exhibit of 
flowers gathered in the open air in gardens at Addiscombe and Park 
Hill comprised two hundred and twenty species and varieties, by far 
the highest record during the past twenty-two years; the next highest 
number having been one hundred and seventy in the mild autumn of 
1897, and the lowest thirty-two in the cold frosty one of 1901. The 
large number in 1903 is, however, partly due to the Soirée having been 
held a week earlier than in previous years; had it been deferred until 
after the frost which occurred the same night, the number of kinds 
available for exhibition would have been much fewer. The female 
flowers of the cob-nut (Corylus avellana, var.) were well developed at 
the end of November in Mr. Mennell’s garden, Park Hill Rise. 
The rainfall of 1903 has been in contrast to that of 1902 in that, 
while it has been double in amount (87°84 in. as against 18°65 in. at 
Park Hill Rise), the number of wet days has been fewer (one hundred 
and ninety-one as against one hundred and ninety-four). 1903 was a 
year of heavy downpours; 1902 one of frequent drizzles. But in both 
years the air was generally humid, and this has been favourable to the 
growth of cryptogamic vegetation. Mosses have grown more luxuri- 
antly on walls, trees, and heathy ground than in the previous series of 
dry years; and fungi have been more plentiful than for a number of 
years past. A number of species of fungi not previously observed in 
the neighbourhood have been found, and several other of the less 
common species have reappeared which had not been seen for several 
years. Lists are appended :— 
Funet Newry Founp, 1903. 
Agaricus (Armillaria) mucidus.—Godstone. 
A. (Clitocybe) nornatus.—Chelsham. 
A. (Clitocybe) nebularis.—Mitcham Common. 
A. (Mycena) purus.—Purley Downs. 
A. (Entoloma) Bloxami.—Box Hill. 
A. (Flammula) flavidus.—Coombe Lane. 
A, (Nancoria) pediades.—Hayes Common and Farthing Down. 
Bolbitius fragilis.— Hayes Common and Beddington. 
Cortinarius sanguineus.—Shirley Hills. 
Lactarius fuliginosus.—Botley Clump. 
Lentinus cochleatus.—Addington Park. 
Panus conchatus.—Tadworth. 
Boletus fellews.—Shirley Hills. 
Polyporus Schweinitzii.—Shirley Hills. 
Hydnwm gelatinosum.—Shirley Hills. 
H. Auriscalpiwm.—Keston Common. 
