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copse a little further on in the direction of Hedges Farm several 

 patches of the strange-looking downy flesh-coloured parasite, Lathrcea 

 sqiiamaria, and the equally striking and scarcely more attractive 

 looking honoy-comhed fungus, the morel, were seen. 



Ascending the hill. Hedges Farm was soon reached, and here the 

 party were courteously received and entertained at tea by Mrs. 

 •Silvester and her famil)', after which Mr. Evans gave a brief resume 

 of the afternoon's proceedings and a description of the geological 

 features of the country traversed. The members then returned to 

 "VVatford and elsewhere from Park Street station. 



The following plants in the Meteorological Society's list were 

 observed in flower in the course of the walk : — 



No. 



1. Anemove nemorosa (wood anemone). 



2. Ranunculus Ficaria (pilewort). 



4. Calthn palustris (marsh marigold). 



7. Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower). 



12. Stellaria Solos tea (greater stitchwoi't). 



16. Geranium Robertianuni (herb Robert). 



20. Vicia sepium (bush vetch). 



30. Anthrisciis sylvestris (wild chervil). 



53. Veronica hederifolia (ivy-leaved speedwell). 



67. Nepeta Glechoma (ground ivy). 



60. Ajiiga reptans (creeping bugle). 



61. Frimula verts (cowslip). 



62. Flantago lanceolata (ribwort plantain). 



63. Mercurialis perennts (dog's mercury). 

 71. Endymion nutans (blue bell). 



Oedinart Meeting, 11th May, 1876. 

 John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. John Mamham, The Hollies, Boxmoor ; Mr. Charles "W. 

 Nunn, Hertford ; and Miss H. M. King Smith, The Hawthorns, 

 "Watford, were elected Members of the Society. 



Dr. F. V. Hayden, Director of the United States Geological and 

 Geographical Survey of the Territories, Washington, U.S.A., was 

 elected an Honorary Member. 



The following paper was read : — 



" The Geology and Water Supply of the Neighbourhood of 

 Watford." By tlie Ilev. James C. Clutterbuck, M.A. Com- 

 municated by Dr. A. T. Brett, Vice-President {Vide p. 125). 



Mr. G. J. Symous (Hon. Member) referred to the extreme rapiditv with which 

 the wells in the Chalk of the South Downs responded to the rainfall — the rain- 

 water sinking 200 or 250 feet in a few hours. With regard to the streams of 

 water in the Chalk, he had heard wondrous accounts of the rivers ruuning 

 through the Chalk at Grays, where water w!is found to such an extent that the 

 level could not be reduced by pumping with engines, and the Chalk could not 

 thi'refore be excavated. It was a (luestion whether it might not be that the 

 water of the Thames found its way into the Chalk there. "We had, he said, been 

 told that we were uot to drink 'Fhames water, nor mountain water, nor rain 

 w:it('r, but only water out of wells. ]f we must depend entirely upon well 

 water, we should have to be very economical, for the level ol the water below 



