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through the woods of Mr. Bengough, of the Ridge ; and thence 

 through those of your unworthy President, and those of Mr. 

 Stoughton, the Club completed the circuit of the valley of Uley, 

 (of which Dursley is the gorge), and returned by the way of Uley 

 Bury and Downham to Dursley. Mr. Buckman promised the 

 Secretary a list of the numerous botanical species collected in the 

 day's research. But, alas, I am afraid that it remains with the 

 paper on the mistletoe bough — and some others long promised us 

 — and if a report which has just reached me be correct, we must 

 not now assume the tremendous severity with which we should 

 have called on him to shew the reason why, but must leave his 

 reformation in other hands, wishing those hands every possible 

 success in their undertaking. 



I must, however, allude to a piece of small pride of my own. 

 In one small hollow, which appears to be a continuation of the 

 hollow- way, leading from the northern entrance of the intrenchment 

 on Uley Bury, close to the point where the road up Lampern Hill 

 enters the wood, a friend of mine, two or three years ago, drew my 

 attention to a natural fernery of great variety, and in frequent 

 visits I have found in the space of about 100 yards by 40, the fol- 

 lowing species of ferns, all growing with unusual luxuriance : — 



Polypodium vulgaro Asplenium trichomanes Athyrium filix fcemina 



P. dryopteris Aspidium angulare Scolopendrium vulgare 



Pteris acquilina Lastroea filix mas 



Blcchnum boreale L. dilatata 



The Ceterach officinarum and the Asplenium ruta muraria abound 

 about two miles off; the Polypodium Calcareum is in the woods 

 near "Woodchester ; the Aspidium Aculeatum abounds in all the 

 woods of the valley though not in that particular spot. 



There are few grander points of the Cotteswolds than the Roman* 

 entrenchment on Uley Bury ; whether, in our walk round the em- 

 bankments, we look up the Vale to the Malvern Hills, or across it 

 to the Sugarloaf and other "Welsh mountains, towering over the 

 Forest Hills, with the wide reach of the Severn called Frampton 

 Bay, and the broad and rich Vale at our feet; or, to the left again, 

 down the Vale to the waters of the Bristol Channel with Stinch- 

 combe, Peak Down, Cam-down, and Downham Hills on the left ; 

 or, finally, turning south-east, look back into the lovely valley we 

 have spent the day in compassing, with its deep beech woods sur- 

 rounding the fine timber and luxuriant verdure of its meadows ; — 

 to say nothing of the interest, archaBologically speaking, of the 

 entrenchment itself, with its three perfect entrances and the two 

 covered ways leading from each. Ail make Uley Bury a point of 

 unusual interest. 



After dinner, at the Old Bell at Dursley, as there was no paper 

 to be read, Mr. Buckman, who has a wonderful facility in coming 

 to the rescue where he is extremely wanted (though were he to 

 present himself whenever he is wished for, he must divide himself 



* Originally British, as shewn by its irregular furm— but altered and perfected 

 by the Romans. 



