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algse. The Society's cabinet was enriched by the gift of several slides 

 from Messrs. W. B. Turner and W. E. Clarke. Mr. Turner showed a 

 number of mosses collected by a friend of his in the Lake district^ 

 including Neckera crispa, Hypnum denticulatum, Climacium dendroides, 

 Thamninm alopecunsum, Hylocomium triquetnim, H. splendens, H. hrevi- 

 rostre, Eypnum pidchellum, Splaohnv.m ampullaceum, Bai tramia Ealle- 

 rigLna, Bryum Zierii, Pogonatum iirnigerum, Dicranum ma.jus, &c. — 

 W. D. R. 



Manchester Cryptoga^iic Society. — Monthly meeting, 21st April, 

 Mr. J. Whitehead, president, in the chair. — From Mr. E. M. Holmes, of 

 LonAon, the secretary (Mr. Rogers) said he had received two mosses — 

 Trichostomum •suhidatum (fr.) and T. littorale — both extremely rare 

 species, for the 'Society's collection. In a note Mr. Holmes said that the 

 former species he found in yellowish clay-slate soil, in shady hollows and 

 hedge banks, along with Bryum Tozeri and Schistostega osm,v/iidacea . He 

 has gathered it at Saltash, at Sunny Corner, Truro, and at Bickleigh 

 Vale, Devon. In the first-named locality the original discoverer was Mr. 

 F. Brent ; near Truro it was first observed by. the Rev. Mr. Tozer, and 

 afterwards by Mr. R. V. Tellam. The president mentioned the finding 

 by himself of what he believed to be Trichostomum Bamhergeri, near 

 Barmouth. This moss, if his surmise be correct, will be an acquisition to 

 the British flora. He also exhibited specimens of Grrimmia Scludtziif 

 which he found growing abundantly, in fruit, upon Cader Idris ; also the 

 very rare LesJcea latebricola with male fl.owers ; and Didymodon cylindricv.s 

 (fr.) of which five capsules only were gathered during the late Barmouth 

 excursion. The latter species was first found in Wales by the late Mr. 

 W. Wilson. Another moss from Cader Idris was AmlrecF-a petrophila, in 

 fine condition. The president exhibited specimens of the very rare 

 Ilypnum demissum, gathered by Dr. Carrington last week near Barmouth. 

 Killarney and Beddgelert were previously the only known stations for the 

 species in this country. Trichostomum niditum, lately gathered in 

 Anglesey by Mr. P. Rogers, was distributed by the secretary. A commu- 

 nication was read from Mr. W. H.Pearson, enclosing specimens of two 

 Hepaticce — Adelanthiis decipiem and Jungermannia Schraderi, collected by 

 Dr. Carrington and himself, on the 12th inst-, near Cefn Coch, Merioneth- 

 shire. The former species has only been found previously in Cornwall, 

 the West of Ireland, the West Indies, and the Andes (see Spruce, in 

 Journal of Botany, 1876). The last-named species was found many years 

 ago in Scotland by Drummond, and more recently it had been gathered 

 by Dr. Carrington in Glen Finnan, Invernesshire, and by Mr. G. Stabler 

 in Westmoreland. No other station is known for it in the British Isles. 



Wakefield Field Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, April 

 2nd,- Mr. Spurling, v. p., in the chair. — Mr. Wrigglesworth read a paper 

 on " A Sacred Animal/' the subject being taken from Leviticus chap. 21, 



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