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council in the hall of this old manor-house, now in a state of 
crumbling ruin. 
After dinner, which was served at the Beaufort Arms, 
Chepstow, the President read a communication from the Rey. 
Mr Reaper, of the Dominican Priory at Woodchester, 
announcing the discovery of a club-moss new to Britain, the 
Lycopodium complanatum of Liynawus. Some three years ago 
Mr Reaper, who is an accomplished and persevering Botanist, 
discovered near Woodchester a Lycopodium, which at first he 
took to be L. alpinum; its character however did not altogether 
agree with that species, though nearer to that than any other 
British species. He decided to send the specimen to Kew, 
where it was unhesitatingly pronounced to be the DL. compla- 
natum of Linnzus, and as such new to the British flora. 
Mr Reaper states that L. complanatum, first described as a 
species by Linnavs, differs from alpinum “in its more flattened 
(complanate) branches, more robust habit, yellower tint, and 
especially in the fruiting spikelets, which are often in pairs, 
with large brown ovate toothed scales, and are altogether much 
more conspicuous than in the allied species. In some foreign 
examples the spikes are truly pedunculate, but in our plant 
they are more properly called sessile, though the remarkably 
attenuated ends of the branches give them somewhat the look 
of being stalked. The Gloucestershire specimens proved to be 
identical in appearance with South American ones preserved in 
the Kew herbarium.” Mr Reaper adds that he “found the 
plant on sandy ground (not on the oolite) amid L. clavatwm 
and a flora which recalls that of the Forest of Dean, and has 
little or nothing in common with that of the Cotteswold hills. 
At present it forms, with Cephalanthera rubra and Allium 
spherocephalum, one of a trio of Gloucestershire plants which 
are not known in any other British county. 
