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BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY. —Biological Section, May 8tli. Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., 
in the chair. The following were exhibited by Mr. W. B. Grove :— 
Fungi, Puccinia liliacearum, from Lytham, Peronospora valerianellce , 
new to Britain, and P. Lamii, from Kirkbride, collected by Rev. 
Hilderic Friend; for Mr. S. Bolton, Pocillum Boltonii , a new and 
interesting aquatic fungus, first found by the late T. Bolton at Hill 
Oak, near Sutton. By Mr. Collran Wainwnght, Lepidoptera: 
Hibernia progemmaria , //. defoliaria, Bombyx neutria, Miana strigilis , 
to show variation, and Sphinx Convolvuli . By Mr. J. E. Bagnall, a 
number of mosses and lichens from Preston Bagot, including 
Scleropodium ccespitosum in fruit; for Rev. D. C. O. Adams, M.A., 
Hypnuvi glareosum and other mosses, from Bournemouth ; for Mr. S. 
Walliker, Hookeria lucens from Cwm Rhaiadr, North Wales; for Father 
Reader, a number of mosses and hepatics from Woodchester, 
Gloucestershire. The President, Mr. W. B. Grove, then read a paper 
by Rev. W. Hunt Painter, “ Notes on the Flora of Settle,” illustrated 
by specimens. The paper gave an interesting account of a part of 
Yorkshire, formerly worked by Mr. John Windsor, F.L.S., and later 
botanists, to whose record Mr. Painter was able to make several 
additions. A discussion followed, in which Messrs. W. B. Grove, 
C. Pumphrey, and J. E. Bagnall took part, and a vote of thanks was 
accorded to Mr. Painter for the trouble he had taken in preparing aud 
illustrating the paper.—June 12th. Mr. R. W. Chase in the chair. 
The following were exhibited:—By Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., for 
Mr. W. R. Hughes, Peziza coronaria , a beautiful cup fungus, the largest 
of its kind in Britain. By Mr. Herbert Stone, Geranium sylvaticum , 
G. lucidum , G. columbinum , G. sanguineum , Teesdalia nudicaulis, Sedum 
Rhodiola, and many other rare plants, from various localities. Mr. W. 
P. Marshall, M.I.C.E., Pavia jlava , or smooth horse chestnut, a native 
of Georgia. Mr. C. Pumphrey, an abnormal Antirrhinum majus , in 
which the lower lip of corolla was divided into three distinct petals ; 
a series of Aquilegias, in which a wonderful variation in duplication 
and suppression was noticeable; also, a beautiful series of Swiss 
Alpine plants, including Edelweiss. Mr. R. W. Chase, Syrrhaptes 
paradoxus, the sand grouse, male and female, with a very interesting 
account of the habits and distribution of these birds. Mr. J. E. 
Bagnall, A.L.S., flowering plants, mosses, and lichens, from the Stour, 
Alne, and Cherwell basins in Warwickshire; for Rev. D. C. O. Adams, 
a fine series of mosses, including Ulota intermedia and Hypnum loreum, 
from near Tetsworth, Oxfordshire; for Mr. Walliker, Scilla verna, 
Armeria maritima, and mosses aud lichens, from Land’s End; for 
Father Reader, Graphis elegans, Sticta pulmonaria, and other lichens, 
from near Woodchester, Gloucestershire. Mr. W. B. Grove then read 
his paper, “Notes on some Plants of the Rhine Land,” illustrated by 
a beautiful series of specimens ; the paper was full of interest, and 
elicited a discussion, in which Messrs. Chase, Pumphrey, Waller, 
Wilkinson, Marshall, and Bagnall took part. 
BIRMINGHAM MICROSCOPISTS’ AND NATURALISTS’ 
UNION.—May 28th. Mr. J. Madison exhibited land and freshwater 
shells, collected at Weston-super-Mare ; also specimens of Pisidium 
amnicum from Hopwood ; Mr. Hopkins, a collection of shells, made in 
