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by the wind and sun. At the western base of the Worcestershire 

 Beacon, one of the few bogs that yet remain about the hills, occurs 

 Aspidium Oreopteris, marking this and the other boggy places by the 

 profusion in which it covers the margin of the black soil. A mile 

 further south at the " Wych," the syenite and limestone are in 

 contact/ and the latter having been extensively quarried, numerous 

 abandoned excavations occur, in many instances embowered with 

 wood, and offering favourite habitats for many mosses unable to fruc- 

 tify on the sunburnt sides of the hills. These limestone rocks also 

 offer an instructive example of the lichens more particularly affecting 

 limestone when compared with the loftier and more exposed syenite. 

 Mr. Lees considered that nearly one-half of the plants occupying the 

 Malvern Hills are Cryptogamic, and the following synopsis will show 

 this to be not an unreasonable supposition, especially as the census 

 the author had taken is not to be considered a perfect one, embracing 

 however all the species Mr. Lees had been enabled to identify after 

 an attentive examination of five years and upwards. 



Enumeration. Species. 



Ferns and Equisetacese 25 



Mosses 121 



Jungermanniae 23 



Other Hepaticse, Characese, &c 15 



Lichens 223 



Fungi 305 



Total 712 



The paper was accompanied by specimens, many of which were ex- 

 hibited. 



June 3. — J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S., &c, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. A. Brewer exhibited living specimens of Ophrys muscifera, 

 Acer as anthropophora, Orchis ustulata, Paris quadrifolia, and other 

 interesting plants from Reigate, Surrey. 



Mr. M. J. F. Sidney presented a specimen of Lycopodium lepido- 

 phyllum from South America. 



The continuation of Mr. Edwin Lees's paper " On the Flora of the 

 Malvern Hills, Part 3, being a Sketch of the Cryptogamic Vege- 

 tation indigenous to the Chain," was read. 



Hepaticce. — Among the Hepaticce occur Anthoceros punctaius and 

 Targionia hypophylla, the latter at the foot of moist rocks on the 

 "Worcestershire Beacon; while there are three species of Mar chantia, 

 polymorpha, conica, and hemispherica . 



Jungermanniae : — asplenoides, ventricosa, bicuspidata, connivens, pu- 

 silla, resupinata, albicans, obtusifolia ?, complanata, scalaris, viticulosa, 

 Trichomanis, bidentata, platyphylla, ciliaris, tomentella, Mackaii, ser- 

 pyllifolia, dilatata, Tamarisci, pinguis, epiphylla, furcata. 



Lichens. — Mr. Lees had observed 223 species ; most of the speci- 

 mens accompanied the paper, and were exhibited. 



Fungi. — The moist grassy declivities of the hills are in autumn 

 peculiarly adapted to the growth of the Agaric tribe ; and here fol- 

 lowed a list of those observed. 



On the whole, the flora of Malvern may be considered as most 



