194 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1914 



ORDINARY WINTER MEETINGS, 1914. 



Tuesday, March 17th, 1914. 

 Rev. Walter Butt, M.A., Vice-President, ia the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read, confirmed, and signed by the 

 Chairman. 



Mr Roland Austin exhibited a copy of the first prmted map of the County 

 drawn by Christopher Saxton in 1577 and published in his " Atlas of England 

 and Wales," 1579. The map is in colour. On it " St. Tecla's Island " is 

 given as " Set Treacle." 



Mr Butt drew attention to, and exhibited a specimen of, a foreign plant 

 (Cyperus) found in Gloucestershire, and to a handsome flowering plant 

 from Mr W. R. Price's fine collection of 13,000 plants brought from Formosa. 

 The latter was new to science, and had been given the name of Tticyrtis 

 stolonifera. One of the genus, Tricyrtis hirta, is grown in English gardens 

 and is commonly known as the Toad Lily. The Cyperus found in 

 Gloucestershire was first sent to a newspaper editor, who passed it on to 

 Mr HoUingworth, the County Council Organiser of Agriculture. He sub- 

 mitted it to Mr Butt, who recognised it as a Cyperus, but found it necessary 

 to send it to Kew for identification. The Director gave the name as 

 Cyperus albostriatus, Schrad., and said it was a native of South Africa. 

 Apparently it had rarely, if ever before, been found in England, as the 

 Director asked to be supplied with a specimen for the Kew Herbarium. 



Mr H. H. Knight read a carefully prepared paper on " The Mosses of 

 Gloucestershire," in the course of which he acknowledged the work done by 

 Bryologists in various parts of the County, including the Rev. Father Reader, 

 formerly of Woodchester, Mr George Holmes, Mr E. J. Elliott, and Miss 

 Gingle, of Stroud. He said that 298 species of mosses were to be found in 

 Gloucestershire, out of a total of 620 distributed over the British Isles. 



Mr W. Thompson said he was pleased to hear Mr Knight refer to the late 

 Mr George Holmes's collection of mosses, now placed in Stroud Museum, 

 which unfortunately was not a public Museum, but since entering that room 

 he had been pleased to hear that there was now some chance of the Museum 

 being opened at an early date, and he hoped this might be in time for Members 

 of the Club to inspect its contents when they visited Stroud in the coming 

 Spring. 



Mr Butt re-echoed this hope, and said he had been putting in a word on 

 behalf of the Stroud Museum, and as the Club had interested itself in the 

 question, it was gratifying to know that the outlook was more promising. 

 In the absence of the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, the author of some " Notes 

 on Helosciadium," Mr Butt read his valuable contribution to botanical 

 research, and rightly emphasised the service which his son-in-law had rendered 

 not only to the Club, but to all botanists. First Mr Butt dealt with the correct 

 pronunication of a somewhat awkward word, and then said the underlying 

 meaning was an umbelliferous plant living in marshes. It is closely aUied 

 to the common celery, and is sometimes confused with watercress, though the 



