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orders according to the Cihnri:m system, in a verj' lucid and interesting 

 manner. The lecture was fully illustrated with examples of each, and 

 also by diagrams. — H. L, Oxley. 



Maxchester CiiYPTOGAAric Society.— Annual ^Meeting, the president, 

 Dr. Carrington, in the chair. — The lion, secretary read the annual report, 

 which briefly enumerated the rariotis discoveries made by the members 

 during the last year, and the new localities recorded for the rarer species. 

 It was remarked that the exhiV'itions and distribution of the rarer species 

 of cryptogams had been a pleasing feature in the society's proceedings. 

 The thanks of the society were accorded to Mr. Chas. Bailey for a copy of 

 his recent paper on the Structure of the Characeje," to Dr. Braithwaite 

 for a copy of the last published part of his British Moss Flora," and to 

 the Eoyal Microscopical Society for their journals, rep.orts, and pro- 

 ceedings. Dr. Carrington was re-elected president, Capt. P. G. Cunliffe 

 and IMr. W. H. Pearson were elected vice-presidents, and Mr. F. Rogers 

 hon. secretary. After the election of various other officers of the society, 

 the hon. sec. made some observations on specimens of Pottia cavifoUa 

 which had been sent from Llandudno, and he exhibited specimens of its 

 variety ca/n'/! a f rum the Continent, which Dr. Wood thought might possibly 

 be found in Britain, if attention were paid to the genus. The interesting 

 Continental moss Pharoinitriiim s^ihsessile was exliibited ; the specimen 

 had been gathered by Prof. Scliimper in Styria, and was interesting on 

 account of its representing a well marked out division of the genus Pottia. 

 It is, however, not yet known as a British moss. IMr, Atkinson exhibited 

 specimens oi Pczziza cnirantici, which he had seen growing in large beds 

 near Bowness in September last. The partally dried specimens smelled 

 faintly, like dried rose petals. 



Meeti^-g, January, 1883, Capt. Cimliffe, F.R.M.S., in the chair. — Mr. 



J. Cash exhibited a fruiting specimen of Lencohryum glaucum, var. minus, 

 gathered near Lyndhurst, New Forest. Mr. Geo. Stabler sent a specimen 

 of Scliistostega osmundacea which had been gathered on Dec. 30th, 1882, 

 in the caves of Bis Parlis, Penrith, Cumberland, by IN'Ir. Martindale, 

 the moss not having been hitherto recorded for this province. Mr. 

 W. H. Pearson brought before the notice of the society the discovery of 

 a new British hepatic, CepliaJozia Jackii (Limpricht), which Dr. Spruce 

 had detected in specimens of Junq. hyssacea, collected by JMr. "\V, Wilson 

 in Cheshire, near Warrington, April, 1841. The species does not appear 

 in the recently ptiblished memoir on Cephalozia by Dr. Spruce. Captain 

 Cunlifle exhibited a line series of recently collected mosses, iJidymodon 

 cylirtdricus CampylosttUirm saxicoJa, being abundantly in fruit. Dr. 

 J. B. Wood sent fruiting specimens of E'lirlriric-iiijim circinnatiim, collected 

 in Itah^ by the Marquis Bottini, and a new European moss (Hypniim 

 Bot^i/iii (Breidler) discoveted by the Marquis Bottini in Etruria, May, 

 1881. M. Robert du Buyssoix, Brout-Yernet, France, was elected a 

 corresponding member of the society. 



