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Gentiana Pneumonanthe. In considerable abundance by the side 

 of a bye-road over a dry, heathy tract of ground, about three miles 

 from Bishopstoke, towards Romsey. 



Melittis Melissophyllum. Not unfrequent in woods and hedges 

 about Tytherly and Mottisfont. 



Hottonia palustris. Filling a ditch on the edge of a heath about 

 a mile south-west of the Farnborough Station, on the South-western 

 Railway. 



Spirantlies autumnalis. On the cricket-ground at Norman Court. 



Convallaria multijlora. Abundant in many dense oak-woods about 

 Tytherly. 



Ceterach officinarum. Wall of a sunk fence at Tytherly. 



Edward T. Bennett. 

 Queenwood College, Hants, 

 7th of 10th month, 1852. 



Proceedings of Societies, 8fc. 



The Phytologist Club. 



One Hundred and Tliirty-elghth Sitling. — Saturday, October 23, 

 1852. — Mr. Newman, President, in the chair. 



Hydnuni coralloides. Scop., near Burton-on-Trent. 



The President read the following note, from Mr. W. M. Hind, dated 

 September 28, 1852 :— 



" I have to notice the occurrence of the rare and exquisitely beauti- 

 ful Hydnum coralloides. Scop., in this neighbourhood. This graceful 

 fungus was found growing from the lintel of a wine-cellar door, and 

 was in beautiful condition when sent to me by the friend in whose 

 house it grew. There were three principal branches, with their 

 branchlets, all fringed with coralloid stalactites about an inch long, 

 very closely set, and of almost snowy whiteness. It has lost much of 

 its delicacy of colour and graceful appearance by drying, and comes 

 more nearly now to the plant figured by Sowerby, t. 252. The spe- 

 cimen I possess measured seven inches in length by five and a half 

 in breadth." 



