64 
REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 
Oct. 8th. — A. B. Browse, M.D., F.R.C.S. Cladonia pyxidata in 
fruit from Dartmoor. 
The Hon. Secretary. Rhamnus catharticus in fruit. 
Miss Florence Browse. The Snake Nut. 
The Bresident. Festuca arundinace^, a grass newly 
found in the district. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
O N the 15th February of this year a meeting was held at University 
College to discuss the re-establishment of this section of the 
Bilstol Naturalists’ Society. After the discussion, it was unanimously 
decided to reform that section, and ten members were enrolled. It 
was thought that much valuable work might be done to unravel some 
of the many problems of Ecology and of the Geographical Distribution 
of vegetation, especially of the Bristol and district flora. 
The systematic work needed in the section will be greatly helped by 
the fact that several members have volunteered to act as “ Referees ” 
for the different groups of plants, so that any meniber wishing to have 
identified or receive information upon any particular species may 
forward it to the referee within whose group it falls for that inform- 
ation. A kind of exchange bureau has been established to facilitate 
the interchanging of specimens for identification, &c. 
With regard to the field operations in Ecology, although Dr. E. E. 
Moss has worked out in a very able manner the plant ecology of 
Somerset, yet there is more than abundant scope for the members in 
this direction. Indeed, several members have promised to work out 
certain areas a.nd report upon the work done at subsequent meetings. 
Already much mapping of the vegetation in these areas has been 
accomplished, especially in the Bortishead and Aust districts b}" J. H. 
Briestley, and in Tickenham and Nailsea districts by F. Beames. 
Since the Section’s Revival on the 18th February, four meetings 
have been held. At the second monthly meeting. Miss E. Hill, of 
Bortbury, showed specimens of the Common Mousetail (Myosurus 
minimus) from a field at Bortbury. This is the first record of the 
plant being found in North Somerset. Mr. J. H. Briestley showed 
specimens of a fungus, Morchella elata, from Long Ashton Cider 
Institute. This is also a record for the same district. 
The other meetings have been spent in discussion upon the very 
interesting specimens brought by the different members, and also upon 
the observations and records of the field workers in Ecology. 
The attendance at the meetings has been good. 
J, W. EVES, Ho7i, Sec. 
