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Near the smaller pond, on a spot where, apparently, there had 

 once been a fire, was found, as is so often the case, a good growth of 

 the common moss, Funaria hygromelrica, with its spore-capsules in 

 various stages of development. By the large pond another moss, 

 Bryitm axspititium, was found plentifully, also bearing numerous 

 capsules of a shape distinctly different from those of Funaria. A 

 search was made, but without success, for Lycopodium inundatum, 

 once found by the large pond; nor could the natter-jack toad, which 

 is reported to occur in the neighbourhood, be discovered either. On 

 the margin of the pond opposite the hut the brilliant orange fungus, 

 Mitrula pahtdosa, was found in some numbers, and Calla palustris, 

 a near relative of our common "Lords and Ladies," but not a truly 

 British plant, was seen in its old locality, though no flowers were 

 noticed. Between the ponds and the station the tway-blade, one of 

 our earlier orchids, was showing its flower-stalk, but the blossoms 

 were by no means out. 



To turn for a few moments to the insects. At the side of the 

 large pond near the Ripley Road I picked up a female specimen of 

 the common mayfly {Ephemera vulgatd) in its sub-imaginal state, 

 which produced an imago, at home, a few days later. Mr. Turner 

 found the larvae of Coleophora viminetella very common on the willows 

 surrounding the smaller pond, and among them three cases with lame 

 of C. anatipennella, showing the white, woolly leaf-hairs attached, and 

 the biting away of the surface of the leaf, due to a habit characteristic 

 of this section of the genus. Larva? of C. laricella were common on 

 some larches. Mr. Stanley Edwards took the moths Tephrosia 

 consonaria, T. p>i?ictiihita, Fido?u'a piniaria, F. atomaria, and 

 Eupithecia indigata, as well as a male RapJiidia notata, the largest of 

 the four snake-flies belonging to the British Neuropterous fauna. 



