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spore wall bursts ; a sporangium is then put forth and zoospores are 
developed in exactly the same manner as in the asexual form. Dr. 
C. B. Plowright made some observations on “ A clover-destroying 
fungus.” “The election of officers was then proceeded with, universal 
regret being expressed by all the members that their President, Mr. 
George Massee, F.L.S., was unable to attend the meeting,  DriC, B, 
Plowright, was unanimously elected President, and Mr. Carleton 
Rea, B.C.L.,. M.A., elected Hon. Secretary and ‘Treasurer. 
Mr. Rea, reported that he had enrolled 5 new members ; 1 member, 
Mr. Nicholson, had resigned; and that the cash balance to their 
credit at the Post Office Savings Bank was Zit. 188. cdo An 
invitation from the Reverend Dr. Stevenson, on behalf of the 
Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, to join their meeting next year or 
the year after was then considered, and it was decided that as next 
year was the Scotch semi-jubilee, the year after would be more 
acceptable, and that the annual week’s foray next year should be held 
in the New Forest. 
On Thursday, the 22nd of September, the woods of Ballyarthur 
were explored and yielded specimens of Boletus parasiticus Bull, 
Russula lepida Fr., Entoloma jubatum F r., and countless ascophores of 
Chlorosplenium a@ruginosum De Not. In the evening Dr. C. B. 
Plowright read a paper entitled “ Recent observations of Professor 
Eriksson’s on the rusts of our cereals ” (See py 76). 
Friday morning, the 23rd of September, was devoted to work at the 
museum, and in the afternoon the demesne of Woodlands, near Lucan, 
was investigated, where fine specimens of Amanita strobiliformis Vitt., 
and Cortinarius (Phlegmacium) fulgens Fr. were gathered, 
In the evening Mr. Greenwood Pim, M.A., exhibited some moulds 
under the microscope, including Pimina parasitica Grove, a full 
description of which is published at p- 65, and he also read a 
short note (see p. 65) concerning them. Dr. E. J. McWeeney 
made some observations on “Two sclerotia diseases of potato ” 
(see p. 67). On behalf of the Rev. Dr. Keith, of Forres, examples 
were exhibited of Puccinia ribis D.C. on Ribes rubrum by Mr. Et. at, 
Soppitt. This species has hitherto not been recorded for Britain, 
and had been met with at Dallas, Elginshire. Mr. Soppitt also showed 
the teleutospores of Puccinia Pringsheimiana K leb. on Carex Goodenowii 
he had artificially produced from the well-known zecidiospores of 
Hcidium grossularia Gmelin, and presented the specimens to the Dublin 
Museum. Mr.C. Reareada few notes on“ The different names applied 
by English and French mycologists tooneand the same basidiomycete.” 
A very hearty vote of thanks was then unanimously voted to Professor 
