lxxxii Journal of Proceedings.
half of the Club, specimens at the opening ceremony, which was fixed to
take place on April 24th, and two following days. The Council having
given permission, he would be very glad to receive assistance in getting
together a collection of Natural History objects, microscopes, &c.
Prof. Boulger, on behalf of Mr. English, called attention to an inter-
esting specimen of the Common Fever-few ( Chrysanthemum parthenium)
in which leaves had taken the place of the flowers, which latter
appeared to be wholly converted into leaves. As it was a composite
flower, the leaves were taking the place, not of parts of flowers, but of
entire flowers.
Mr. English said that the Fever-few was called by Hooker a peren-
nial, but he thought that it should be classed as a pseudo-perennial, as
the plant rarely lives more than two or three years, even in mild seasons.
To keep up the stock he had to take cuttings every autumn to furnish
plants for next summer's blossoming, and he had so grown the plant in
his garden at Epping for twenty-five years. In general the cuttings
were taken from the base of the plant, and these never produced green
flowers, but if the terminal shoots (being those that would produce
flowers if the summer were prolonged) were taken, the cuttings readily
"root," but in the process the flowers are retarded, and in course of time
they assume a leafy character, whilst retaining the form of the flowers.
Mr. English also exhibited specimens of Conocephalus conicus (be-
longing to the Marchantieae) in fruit, spores of which he thought would
interest the microscopical members. It. was a common plant in the
forest, growing on sloping banks by brook-sides, but it was very seldom
seen in fruit. The fruit producing plants having the habit of growing
at the base of the low water-line in the brooks, they are often submerged
in the spring, and the spores are so washed away.
The Secretary called attention to the second Annual Report of the
" Felstead School Natural History Society, then lying on the table,
which was a record of work done by the boys and masters of the School.
He considered the Report to be superior to very many reports issued by
local Natural History Societies. It contained some excellent figures of
Palaeolithic implements, a list of plants growing within the Felstead
district, and a list of the lepidoptera occurring within similar limits.
Mr. Cole also referred to the record in the ' Proceedings' of the Club
(vol. ii., p. lviii.) of the occurrence of a specimen of Abraxas ulmata in
Epping Forest, by his brother, Mr. B. Gr. Cole. The moth had not pre-
viously been met with in the forest, so far as could be ascertained ; but at
the time the specimen was exhibited, it was stated on the authority of
Mr. Cansdale, that a specimen had been taken at St. Osyth, by Mr.
Harwood. A letter had that morning been received, however, from Mr.
Harwood, stating that Ms specimens (which were those alluded to by
Mr. Cansdale) had been caught in Suffolk, and, therefore it was prob-
able that Mr. B. G. Cole's moth was unique as an Essex specimen of the
species.