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MISCELLAXEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Read at Watford, 2Qth April, 1880. 



Geology. 



Section of Stanmore Brewery New Well and Boring. — The well, 

 which has recently been sunk here for Mr. T. M. Clutterbuck by 

 Messrs. G. Tidcombe & Son of Watford, the Engineers, and Mr. 

 R. Paten of St. Albans, the Contractor, is carried to a depth of 316 

 feet to the bottom of the steining ; from the bottom of the steining 

 to the chalk it is continued for a further depth of 8 feet ; and the 

 cylinders, are carried 4 feet into the ctialk ; total 328 feet. The 

 bore pipe is carried into the boring 42 feet further, beyond which 

 193 feet of chalk has been bored into, making a total depth of 563 

 feet. The beds passed through are as follows : — vegetable soil with 

 gravel and clay, 4 feet, — yellow clay, 5 feet 3 inches, — blue clay, 

 277 feet, — hard sand, 1 foot 6 inches, — mottled clay, 13 feet, — 

 green sand, 4 feet, — hard mottled clay, 7 feet, — grey sand, 4 feet 

 6 inches, — sand and pebbles (a little water here), 3 feet, — stone 

 bed with flints, 1 foot, — green sand and pebbles, 2 feet 3 inches, — 

 flints, 1 foot 6 inches (total depth to chalk, 324 feet), — in chalk 

 with flints and bed of hard chalk rock, 239 feet, — total, 563 feet. 

 — George Tidcomhe, Jun., Bushey. 



BOTANT. 



Plants not previously recorded as growing in certain districts near 

 St. Alhans. — I communicate the following list of plants which I 

 have noticed in this neighbourhood, not so much on account of the 

 rarity of all the specimens as because they are not recorded in the 



* Flora Hertfordiensis ' : — 



Cardamine sylvatica, in a ditch near Bricket Wood. 



Erytlirma Ctntaurium, very abundant on railway-bank near 

 Bricket Wood. 



Cheiranthus Cheiri has grown on the ruins of Sopwell JS'unnery 

 for a great number of years, but is not recorded. 



Stellaria aqiiatica occurs in an osier bed, near Harpenden. 



Barnassia palustris, near Harpenden. 



Bidens cernua, Pedicularis palmtris, and Scutellaria galericulata, 

 on Hedges Farm, in a field bordering the Ver. 



Lathraa Squamaria * is parasitical on the roots of some large 

 elms near Harpenden (Great Northern) Station. Possibly this is 

 the locality meant by Messrs. Joseph Wood and N. and W. Thrale, 

 when they say : " Near Batford Mill, by the side of the road from 

 Luton to Wheathampstead." (See ' Flora,' p. 206.) 



* "We recorded this species as found near Hedges Farm some years ago. See 



• Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. Soc.,' Vol. I, p. xxxvi.— Ed. 



