June. The greatest numbers of flowers open at once were, 
on the 12th June 31, and on the 14th 21. This year 118 
flowers opened perfectly. 
The plant is at present a great mass of intertwining stalks 
with very numerous air roots, a shaggy, ugly, piece of vege- 
tation. It measures 9 feet across, 5 feet high, and about 
1| feet thick. It shows no sign of weakness. 
Cuttings taken off it grow very freely, and soon flower. 
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The Rev. J. E. Vize, M.A., of Forden, near Welshpool, 
presented the Section with a slide of Xenodochus carbona- 
rius, Schl., and reported that this rare fungus occurs near 
Welshpool in a railway cutting, with a south westerly 
aspect well sheltered by a hill and a wood. The first 
appearance on the leaves of Sanguisorba officinalis, L., was 
noticed in the middle of May when the Lecythea-form was 
in perfection, but the stems and other portions of the Burnet 
were greatly distorted by it. A month afterwards the 
magnificent vermillion coloured spores were well sprinkled 
over the leaves, the form of which was unaltered. In the 
middle of J uly the intensely black brand spores made their 
appearance, many of which had twenty or more articulations, 
and were plentifully scattered over the leaves in tufts. 
Mr. Vize stated that he had not watched the transition 
state from the Uredo to brand-spores, but he hoped to do 
so if opportunity offered. 
Mr. John Barrow sent the following communication 
upon the results of two experiments with tar for eradicating 
Tricophyton tonsurans, in completion of. the paper read at 
the previous meeting of the section : — 
Three rings of several months standing, which had resisted 
applications of carbolic acid, nitric acid, and ammonia chlor- 
ide of mercury — each ring being about two inches in 
diameter, and having at the time the raised rough edge 
