lv PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
It may be at this stage that the seeds adhere to 
the wool. 
Rumex Brownit, Campd.—tThis plant occurred in con- 
siderable numbers along the Tweedside, as far as Melrose. 
Also a native of Australia. 
Mr. W. EpnGar Evans, B.Sc., exhibited living specimens 
of Physcomitrella patens, B. and §., from Torduff Reservoir, 
Pentland Hills, Midlothian. The moss was growing 
abundantly in association with antheridia-bearing plants 
of Funaria hygrometrica, Sibth., and Riccia crystallina, 
Linn., on exposed mud at the upper end of the pond, the - 
water in which has been very low for some time. In the 
“Census Catalogue of British Mosses,” published by the 
Moss Exchange Club in 1907, there is no mention of 
Physcomitrella patens from any Scottish county or vice- 
county. Photomicrographs, taken from Torduff material, 
were also exhibited to show the structure of leaf and 
capsule; similar photographs of Phascwm cuspidatum, 
Schreb., were shown for comparison. 
Mr. R. L. Harrow showed the following plants in flower 
from the Royal Botanic Garden :—A sparagus myriocladus, 
Aspidistra typica, Begonia glovre de Lorraine, B.  soco- 
trana, Cuscuta refleca, Cypripedium insigne Sandere, 
C. insigne Harefield Hall, Cyrtanthus sanguineus, 
Hibiscus Huegelii, Monolema primulefolia. 
Mr. E. M. Hotmgs, F.L.S., exhibited Geaster Bryantii, a 
fungus which had come up in his garden at Sevenoaks in 
Kent. It appeared above the soil like a white coat button 
with a black centre, all the rest of the fungus remaining 
underground until rain or wind removed the soil. The 
Geaster grew under the parlour window in dry soil to 
which horse manure had been added in spring. The 
mycelium of the fungus killed a little of the Arabis alpina 
but did not appear to injure the Geraniwm sanguineum or 
wallflower or other plants close to it. 
