Proceedings. 21 



[Microscopical and Natural History Section.'] 



Ordinary Meeting, November 3rd, 1893. 



R. ELLIS CUNLIFFE, President of the Section, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. A. Coward and Mr. C. Oldham were elected 

 Associates of the Section. 



Mr. Rogers exhibited specimens of two rare mosses : — 

 (A) Physcomitrium sphcericum, found growing on the mud 

 margin of the reservoir at Whalley Bridge, the second 

 locality in England ; (B) Phycomitrella patens, found on the 

 mud margin of the reservoir at Chapel-en-le-Frith. Both were 

 found by Professor Barker, late of Owens College, October, 

 1893. 



Mr. ROGERS also exhibited fine specimens of fruit of 

 Pyrus japonica, grown at Bowdon. 



Mr. Cameron made a short communication on galls, 

 and exhibited a gall of the BiorJiiza aptera from the roots of 

 the birch from Edenbridge ; the birch being a new food 

 plant, the others, apart from the oak, being beech, pine and 

 vine. Also an elongated spindle-shaped woody gall on 

 Ulex nana from Warwickshire. This gall is un described, 

 differing altogether from the other gall on Ulex (Aspondi- 

 lyia ulicis) which is a bud gall. 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., exhibited 

 specimens of Wulfenia carintJiiaca (Jacq.) from South 

 Tyrol, perhaps the most local of European plants, and 

 compared it with its nearest allies, both European and 

 exotic, in the sub-order Digitalece of Serophulariacece, which 

 were also exhibited. 



