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in other parts of the same district, and have no doubt that it 
will be found on damp heathy spots in the Valley of the 
Evenlode, in Oxfordshire, and probably in the adjacent 
portions of Gloucester and Worcestershire. I at once 
forwarded specimens to Dr. Braithwaite, and the plant is 
fully and ably described in Part X., supplement, page 299, of 
“ The British Moss Flora,” and Dr. Braithwaite promises an 
illustration in the supplement of Vol. II. of the same work. 
The following is the condensed description of the moss:— 
“ Dicranum undulatum , Elirh. Dioicous ; robust, densely 
tomentose. Leaves from a broad base, lineal-lanceolate, 
strongly undulate, coarsely serrate at margin, and in two rows at 
back of nerve; caps, aggregate, oblong-cylindric, arcuate; 
lid with a long subulate beak.” “ Brit. Moss Flora,” page 299. 
The Wolford plant is barren. I think it will probably be 
found in other British stations, as it may have been over¬ 
looked as merely a barren state of Die. scoparium, or Die. 
palustre. J. E. Bagnall. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICRO¬ 
SCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
EXCURSION TO OXFORD. 
On Whit Monday, May 30, an excursion of the members and 
their friends was taken to Oxford, by the 10.5 a.m. train from 
Snow Hill, arriving at Oxford at 12 noon, where the party were 
met by Mr. G. C. Druce, F.L.S., and Mr. G. Simms, of Oxford, who 
conducted them over the various places of interest in the city, and 
had made special arrangements for the reception of the party. After 
a light luncheon at the George Hotel, the party were conducted along 
Market Street into the Turl, seeing Lincoln, Exeter, and Jesus College 
fronts ; and into the Broad, seeing Trinity and Balliol Colleges, and 
opposite Balliol the spot of the martyrdom, in 1555, of Bishops Ridley 
and Latimer, and Archbishop Cranmer ; then along St. Giles’, past 
the Martyrs’ Memorial into Parks Road, where the Ashmolean Museum 
was visited, containing a very interesting collection of antiquities and 
relics; and then the Natural History Museum and Ethnological 
Museum. In the Natural Histoiy Museum, amongst the fine series of 
specimens illustrating Zoology and Geology, there was particularly 
noticed the attempt to give a perfect sequence of the evolution of life in 
different classes of the animal kingdom, especially in the Cephalopoda, 
which were present as they flourished on that very spot as the 
Ammonites of the Lias, and as the still living forms of Argo, Nautilus, 
and Octopus. The corals were lovely, and the models of these, and of the 
Actinoids. and of the development of the Echinoderms, were especially 
interesting. The glory of the collection was, however, the magnificent 
