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EEPOETS OF MEETINGS. 
Mrs. Roden, Mr. Ruclge, Dr. Norton, Dr. Gubbin and Dr, 
Fisher showed specimens. 
HE Saturday excursions continued to be fairly well 
attended. Early in the spring the interesting hybrid 
violet V. ^^er»?/,rfa Jord. was found in several new local- 
ities in Somersetshire, and also at Almondsbury. A rarer 
hybrid between T". odor at a and T^. hirta, having white 
flowers and long stolons, scentless and hairy. T". sepincoJa 
Jord. was discovered between Mells and Great Elm. In 
May, Mr. D. Ery reported the occurrence of Falcatula 
ornithopodioides on Syston Common, a welcome extension 
of the range of this rare trefoil. Later, two of us employed 
some days among the hills near Dursley and Wotton-under- 
Edge, where the botany has a distinctive character. Elymiis 
europcuits, Verhascuin nigrum, Hieracmm v,mro7mm and 
Hypericum duhium are among the best plants. Pyrola 
minor was found in the beechwoods, but not P. media, for 
which we made careful search near Woodmancote, whence a 
single specimen in the Stephens Herbarium is said to have 
come. Dr. Stephens' specimen, however, has been so much 
damaged by insects (nothing but leaves remain) that it is 
now hardly possible to say if it were correctly named or not.. 
Some evidence corroborative of the existence of P. media in 
the Bristol district is much wanted. The area of SfacJiys 
alpina is ascertained to be about two square miles. Mrs, 
Gregory reports that the tuft of Scirpus holosclimims on our 
coast produced at least fifty flowering stems this season ; 
and that Antennaria dioica, formerly recorded by Dr. St. 
Brody from Brean Down, is actually growing on W orle Hill. 
THEODORE FISHER. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
