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tions subsequently made on two of the species of fungus 

 found at the meeting. 



"On November 17th, near Black Pond, Esher Common, 

 I found a Sparassis crispa growing near a Scots Pine as it so 

 often does. I raked away the fir needles and then found a 

 bulky 'stalk,' or something of that nature. This was fol- 

 lowed some eight inches below the surface, when it appeared 

 to end at a root of the Scots Pine, at whose foot it was grow- 

 ing. If this was so, was S. crispa parasitic on the root ? 



" On the same date I noticed at the head of the Black Pond 

 a silver birch of good height and fairly healthy appearance, 

 attacked by the fungus Fomes betidinus. On the tree were 

 four fresh ' brackets ' of the fungus ; but as there were also 

 two old ones the tree must have been affected for some time, 

 since these ' sporophores ' do not appear externally till after 

 the fungus has been doing much work inside. Some branches 

 had been broken off, perhaps by a falling tree, and this may 

 have been the means of introduction of the spores of the 

 birch's insidious foe. 



"The only fungus I found on October 5th that was new to 

 the Oxshott list was Urocystis anemones, Schrot (= U. pompho- 

 lygodes, Cke.). It was parasitic on the petiole of a Ranunculus, 

 presumably R. bulbosus. The brilliant yellow Clavaria — C. 

 inevqualis, Miill., which I found down in the swampy corner, 

 is also I think new to the list ; this I had discovered near 

 Oxshott on September 10th, but in another spot. 



"Although not taken on the actual day, I have this 

 autumn (Sept. 9) found Physavum vircscens, Ditm., a myxo- 

 gaster, on heather; and Clavaria cinerea, Pers., in Prince's 

 Coverts, near Oxshott, on September 10th. These I think 

 also are new to the list, and might with justice be added. 

 All these have been shown to Mr. Massee at Kew." 



OCTOBER IO/7?, 1907. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a specimen of Dasychira pudibunda 

 taken at rest on a stone in the Pyrenees, and which measured 

 2f inches in expanse, quite a \ inch larger than the usual 

 full-sized examples. 



Mr. Moore exhibited several examples of Hipparchia semcle 

 showing considerable variation on the underside both in the 

 colour and depth of the ground shades, and in the shape of 

 the zigzag, transverse, central line ; specimens of a small 

 race of Aphantopus (Euodia) hypcranthns. Both species were 



