XX PROCEEDINGS, 



The following papers were read : — 



1 . " Meteorological Observations taken at The Grange, St. Albans, 

 during the year 1891." By the President. {Transactions, ^^o\.\ll, 

 p. 69.) 



2. "A Naturalists' Calendar for Mid-Hertfordshire." By J. J. 

 "Willis. (Communicatedby the President.) {Transactions, No\. ^11, 

 p. 76.) 



3. "Report on Phonological Phenomena observed in Hertford- 

 shire in 1891." By Edward Mawley, F.R.Met.Soc., P.R.H.S. 

 {Transactions, Yol. YII, p. 85.) 



Field Meeting, 7th May, 1892. 



HARPENDEN AND EAST HYDE. 



Meeting at Harpenden Station, the members, under the guidance 

 of Mr. James Saunders of Luton, walked into the Lea Yalley and 

 through the meadows by the side of the river fi-om Pickford Mill 

 to Cold Harbour. Turning off there up the lane to Bower Heath, 

 from the summit of the hill, about 430 feet above sea-level, an 

 extensive view was obtained, embracing Harjienden on the south, 

 "Wheathampstead on the south-west, and Kimpton with its church 

 forming a conspicuous object on the north-west. The gorse on 

 Bower Heath was in flower, but a large extent of it had recently 

 been burnt. 



East Hyde Park, now the country seat of the Earl of Albemarle, 

 was then entered, by permission, with the special object of ex- 

 ploring the woods for botanical treasures. The gaitlens also were 

 visited. The Hertfordshire boundary was passed just before " The 

 Hyde" was reached, and the rest of the walk through the park was 

 in Bedfordshire. 



After leaving the park, a few minutes walk brought the party to 

 East Hyde, and tea was partaken of at the village inn near the 

 church. Some of the members then returned to St. Albans, etc., 

 from Chiltem Green Station, but the majority accompanied their 

 President on foot by way of Cooter's End to Harpenden, taking a 

 later train from there. 



The most interesting plants found in flower were the toothwort 

 {Lathrcea squamaria), growing on the road-side hedge-bank near 

 the Great Northern Station, Harpenden, and the green hellebore 

 {Uellelorus viridis) found in the East Hyde Woods (in Herts). 

 Wood-anemones, wood-violets ( Viola Riviana), primroses, daffodils, 

 and bluebells, etc., were also in flower in these woods, cowslips in 

 the meadow below "The Hyde," and the cuckoo-flower ( Car^^fwrne 

 pratensis) by the Lea, Several species of Mycetozoa or Myxo- 

 gastres, curious forms of life which creep about like animals in 

 their youth, and settle down and produce spores in their mature 

 days, were seen in or on decayed wood. 



