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oreades Fr., the latter a very good edible species; /olyporus 
sulphureus Fr., Polyporus squamosus ¥r., Triphragmium ulmarie 
(Schum), Mollisia cinerea (Batsch), Lachnella calycina (Schum.), 
Lachnella virginia (Batsch). JZ. calycina grows on larch and pine 
trees, and is very destructive in its action. Mr, Crow brought with 
him from Louth a fine specimen of Panus rudis, which had been 
submitted to Mr. Massee, Kew, who pronounced it new to Britain. 
Mr. Chas, Crossland also says of a specimen taken in Broughton 
Decoy, a few days before the Brigg meeting :—‘ I have examined the 
specimen sent and make it out to be Mycena acicula Scheff. There 
is another somewhat similar to it—Codlybia cavus—but I am 
inclined to think, so far as I can judge it in its dry state, it is the 
seer) ' 
W. C. Brown, of Appleby, a scientific farmer of the modern 
sieck" reported the discovery of a Myxomycete called Spongtospora 
So/ant on potatoes grown on the Cornbrash, of the Great Oolite series, 
and, as far as his experience goes, limited to that soil and parish. It 
is nearly related to,the fungus which causes the finger-and-toe disease 
in the turnip. Professor Carruthers named it, and had not previously 
oes. 
Manton Common, If any other observations were made in Micro- 
Zoology or in Muscinez, Algze, Mycetozoa, and Protophyta, will 
members of the Unions kindly send their notes to Mr. J. Larder, 
33, Mercer Row, Louth. 
A good ‘high tea’ finished up the day at the Angel Hotel, at 
Brigg, with the usual sectional reports, and ‘speechifying’ befitting 
such an auspicious event as the first joint meeting of the two Unions, 
The thanks of both Unions are due to Lord Yarborough, 
Mr. R. N. Sutton-Nelthorpe, Mr. Max H. Dalison, Major Spencer 
Chichester, and Mr. J. R. Dudding for freely opening their valuable 
shooting properties, and lending their keepers to act as guides. 
E. ADRIAN WoopRUFFE-PEACOCK. 
NOTES AND NEWS, 
From r. Thomas Hick, B.A., B B.Sc., A.L.S., of the Owens College, w 
have had the please easure of receiving reprints of two papers from the publcattoos or 
the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Seal fo s 1894-95. One is ‘ On the 
Structure of the Leaves of Calamites,’ in which are discussed slides of Yorkshire 
y gener the tary — to bridge oe os gap caused by ypc 
the histology of calamitean Pe is On 
 hagion Hookeri, Will, a0 Lyginodendron Will, Fin which 
are 
