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2. Extract of a Letter from the Hon. Norman Grosvcnor to the 

 Rev. Newton Price, mentioning an exposure of the Bugshot Sands 

 and overlying gravels in excavations which are being made for the 

 foundations of some new buildings on Harrow Hill. 



3. "On the Botanical Work of the Past Season." By Pt. A. 

 Pryor, B.A., F.L.S. {Vide p. 65). 



4. Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Dr. Hind to the Secretary, 

 giving a few notes on the Botany of West Suffolk ( Vide p. 108). 



5. "A Eew Words about our Local Ferns." By John E. Little- 

 boy ( Vide p. 83). 



6. "Note on the Discovery of Impatiens fidva near Watford." 

 By John E. Littleboy. 



Mr. Littleboy stated that he was rowing in his boat on the Grand Junction 

 Canal one evening when he noticed in a mass of the yellow flag, between Hunton 

 Bridge and Eussell Farm, a flower that was quite new to him, and which he 

 found on examination to be Impatiens fulva. It was so abundant here that 

 there was no danger of its being eradicated. He found it to be in full bloom 

 about the middle or end of August. 



The President said that although he had mentioned its occurrence at the last 

 meeting of the Society, Mr. Littleboy had the right of prior discovery. He had 

 found it in one or two places by the side of the Canal, but not in such abundance 

 as where Mr. Littleboy had first discovered it. 



Mr. John Hopkinson read Mr. H. C. M'atson's account of its distribution, in 

 which he states that the plant is of American origin, and is now perfectly 

 naturalized in England. " Beginning considerably above Guildl'ord, it may be 

 traced," he says, " at intervals along the river Wey, down to its junction \\\i\\. 

 the Thames at "Weybridge. Below this point, localities occur on both sides of 

 the Thames; as at "Walton, Kingston, Barnes, Twickenham, and Isleworth. 

 From Weybridge, again, in another direction, it ascends the course of the Basing- 

 stoke Canal, to Woking Heath, if not farther; probably carried by boats or their 

 towing ropes against the course of the slow stream of the canal."* Mr. 

 Hopkinson also stated that Mr. Pryor had found it at Harefield, extending, he 

 (Mr. Pryor) supposed, into Herts. 



Mr. Littleboy said that if the plant were of American origin its seeds might 

 have been brought in the American wheat now so largely used, some of which 

 not unfrequently got into the Canal. 



Mr. Hopkinson mentioned that he had foimd a single plant of CEiwthera 

 biennis (evening primrose) in a field near Langley Road, NVatford. It had been 

 noticed in the county before at Ware, Hertford, and Hitchin. 



Mr. E. M. Chater said that he had found FutoitiUa argtntea — mentioned in 

 the ' Flora Hcrtfordiensis ' as occurring in a neighbouring district — in two 

 localities, Rouscbarn Lane and the gravel-pit at Brightwell's Farm. He had 

 also foimd there Dianthus armeria, mentioned as occurring at Chorley Wood and 

 the Watford tunnel. 



Ordixaey Meeting, 9th December, 1875. 

 Alfhed T. Brett, Esq., M.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. H. George Fordham, F.G.S., Odsey, Royston ; Mrs. Giiffits, 

 Queen's Road, Watford ; Mr. Frank E. Marshall, M.A., Harrow ; 

 Mr. Freeman C. S. Roper, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., Palgrave 

 House, Eastbourne ; and Mr. Charles Snowing, Holywell Farm, 

 Watford, were elected Members of the Society. 



• Cybcle Britannica, vol. i, p. 298.— 1847. 



