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REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 
Dec., 1892. 
* Viola palustris. Brake Mill Pool, Hagley! Alvechurch. Mr. 
Daniel Mathews. Brake Mill Pool, 1883 ! Near the Birches, 
1883 ! Lower Lickey, 1881. 
Drosera rotundifolia. Near Alvechurch. Mr. D. Mathews. 
Destroyed at Bromsgrove Lickey. 
Polygala depressa. Dry banks and heaths; locally abundant. 
First record of segregate. 
* Dianthus deltoides. Warwick Hall, Bromsgrove. Mr. John 
Humphreys. 
* Silene anglica. Among barley, Churchill, 1879 ; introduced with 
clover seed, Wm. M. ! Purton, Yol. III., p. 37. “Mid. Nat,,” 
Yol. X., p. 255. 
* Sagina ciliata. Blakedown, 1818. 
* Lepigonum rubrum. Dry sandy places. 
* Hypericum dubium. About Hagley and Churchill. 
* H. humifusum. Bromsgrove Lickey; Twiland Wood; Frankl ey; 
Hagley Brake ; Churchill; Blakedown ; Clent Hill. 
* Geranium sylvaticum. Furnace Coppice, Halesowen; Cradley. 
* G. columbinum. Hagley; Fenny Rough. 
* G. lucidum. Mucklow Hill, Halesowen; Pigeon House, Nortbfield; 
Clent Grove. 
Tilia parvifolia, T. grandifolia, have been inserted by mistake. 
* Rhamnus catharticus. Woods. 
* R. Frangula. Romsley and Frankley Woods. 
(To be continued.) 
The Fecundity of Plants. —I recently had the curiosity to esti¬ 
mate the number of seeds yielded by two parsnip plants, and found it 
to be 12,768. The plants were by no means fine ones, being two that 
were overlooked last winter. — C. J. Watson. 
Reports of Societies. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY. —Michoscopical Meeting. November 1st. Mr. J. F. 
Goode, President, in the chair. Mr. S. B. Bolton exhibited under a 
microscope the ova of an arachnid, showing the young inside. Mr. S. 
Elliott exhibited Stercorarius pomatorhinus from Donegal. Mr. W. S. 
Wilkinson exhibited the fruit of a species of Pyrus. Mr. T. Y. 
Hodgson then read a full report of the excursions made during the 
past season, and while regretting the extremely superficial character 
of the work done, noted the discovery of two microscopic fungi, 
Septocylindrium macrosporuui and Hormactina dispersa, as new to the 
district. These were obtained at Middleton, where a small number of 
specimens of Pedalion mira were also found. The only other note¬ 
worthy specimen was Daphnia Jardinii from Olton Reservoir.— 
