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pale salmon, milky ; Tricholoma rutilans, bright yellow gills ; 

 and Lactarins serifluus. 



" Epipactis latifolia, one of our largest orchids, was seen in 

 fruit by the roadside, as we neared Oxshott." 



Dr. Chapman found the grass Holcus lanatus with the 

 fruit supporting a crop of one of the Ergots {Claviceps micro- 

 cephala, Tub). Mr. Lucas reports that on the following day 

 he found Molinia carulca in the neighbourhood of the Black 

 Pond also attacked by the same species of Claviceps. 



SEPTEMBER 24th, 1908. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a specimen of Brcnthis pales from 

 Saas-Fee, with much irregular suffusion of the black mark- 

 ings ; and a specimen of Anthrocera exulans, var. flava, from 

 the same place, in which the yellow tinge prevailed over the 

 pink, but by the electric light this was not apparent. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited a number of photographs of Fungi, 

 among them the following species taken on the occasion of 

 the Society's meeting at Claygate on September igth : — 

 CortinariiLs papulosus, C. purpurascens, var. sub-purpurascens, 

 Laccaria laccata, var., Polyporiis adustus, Lepiota procera, var. 

 puellaris, and Phallus impudicus in its unexpanded condition. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited two species of Fungi and contributed 

 the following notes : 



" Trametes rubescens. Found on August 7th and August 

 14th, 1908, on an old sallow by the side of a stream in the 

 New Forest. It is very rare, and not mentioned in Massee's 

 Fungus Flora. Mr. Allen first recorded it from near Willey 

 Hall, Salop, in August, 1906. But I had previously found 

 one in the New Forest on an old sallow on April 25th, 1905. 



" Armillaria mcllea. Found on August 5th, 1908. It 

 consisted of black interlacing strands, forming a tough lace- 

 work two or three yards or more in length, between the bark 

 and the wood of a dead tree (no doubt oak) in Queen's 

 Bower, New Forest. This is the mycelium (the real fungus) 

 with whose sporophores we are better acquainted." 



Mr. Lucas also exhibited the specimen of Chirocephalus 

 diaphanus, a very beautiful Crustacean, met with in the Clay- 

 gate Coverts, during the Field Meeting of the Society on 

 September 19th. A question arose as to how so delicate a 

 creature survived the winter and Mr. Clark suggested it was 

 in the egg stage. The specimen exhibited was a female, and 

 was bearing an egg-case. 



