viii Proceedings. [November 2nd, i8gy. 



Cameron, entitled " Notes on a Collection of Hymenop- 

 tera from Greymouth, New Zealand, with descriptions 

 of New Species." 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



The President also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Henry 

 Hyde, specimens of Sisymbrium strictissimum L. from the banks 

 of the river Mersey, near Stretford. 



Mr. Hyde wrote : " The first time I met 6". strictissimum 

 was in June of last year, on the banks of the Mersey at Stretford. 

 I went there again this year and found it in three other places, 

 one of which was at least a mile from the others in the direction 

 of Northenden. Three out of the four specimens found were in 

 fruit. Hieracium amplexicaule has been growing on the canal- 

 bank at Stretford for years. It is fairly abundant on the buttress 

 of the bridge that spans the Mersey, and looks very beautiful 

 when in full flower. 



" I found Vicia orobus in June of this year on a road parallel 

 with the Bala road at Dolgelly. I found the Carduus on the 

 railway embankment near to Patricroft Station." 



Ordinary Meeting, November 2nd, 1897. 

 James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., exhibited a section 

 of a spruce trunk which had been completely hollowed by the 

 mycelium of a polysporous fungus. The resinous pine-knots, 

 however, are left entire, radiating from the centre of the trunk. 

 He also pointed out that similar pine-knots had been found in 

 the inter-glacial deposit at Darnten, and had been examined 

 by him in the Museum at Basle. These pine-knots had been 

 considered by Professors Riitimeyer and Schwendauer to be the 

 remains of old basket-work or wattle- work and thus to prove the 



