EXHIBITION AND LEOTUKE MEETINGS, 1951 
principal!}^ in the Veidoii valley and Alios district, showing typically 
continental habitats, where species occurring in Britain are associated 
with continental species. 
Miss M. S. Campbell. 
6. Paintings 
Dbaavings of gladiolus Species 
A collection of coloured drawings of Gladiolus species made in the 
Belgian Congo. 
Mrs. B. H. S. Russell. 
Watee-Colour Drawings of Mosses 
Among these were drawdngs of Fissidens bryoides Hedw. with cap- 
sule and male inflorescence; Pleuridium subulatum Rabenh., showing 
spores containing oil globules, greatly magnified ; also the liverwort 
Lophocolea heterophyllu (Schrad.) Duni. All were found in a damp 
part of Sherrardswood, Welwyn Garden City, where trees had recently 
been cleared and dense undergrow'th had ari.sen. 
Miss H. D. Garside. 
Twelve Painted Plates of Plants 
These plates are part of a series of Comparative Figures of British 
Flowers, being iiaintings prepared by the exhibitor. Plates numbered 
17 Hypericum-, 28 and 29 Bubus, 32 Saxifraga, 37-9 part of Umbelli- 
ferae, 48 Carduus and Oirsium, 51 and 52 Hieracium, 54 Campanulaceae , 
55 Ericaceae, containing in ail 138 figures, were shown. 
W. Keble Martin. 
Flower Drawings. Aliss M. Knox. 
Water-Colours 
Twelve water-colours of common plants by Miss P. Woodland. 
Glasgow and Andersoni.^n Natural History 
and Microscopical Society. 
CONFERENCE, 1952 
A Conference under the title of The Changing Flora of Britain was 
held on Friday and Saturday, April 4th and 5th, 1952, in the Lecture 
Room, Roj^al Horticultural Society’s New Hall, Greycoat Street, S.W.l. 
It was follow'ed by a Field Meeting on Sunday, April 6, to study the 
status and distribution of Thlaspi alliaceum and other early flowering 
species. A report of the proceedings will appear in Year Book, 1953, 
and the papers read at the Conference w'ill be published in a separate 
volume of which a notice will be sent to members at a later date. 
