SESSION 1893-91. 



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ITieracium pilosella, L. 

 Fraxiiius excelsior, L. 

 Litliospenuum arvense, L. 

 Sfyosotis palustris, l{clh. 



„ intermedia, Liiik. 

 Veronica otlioinalis, L. 



,, chanuBclrys, L. 



,, serpyllifolia, L. 



„ agrekis, Z. 



,, heder;i3 folia, L. 

 Ajuga reptaus, L. 

 Laininm album, L. 

 Galeobdolou luteum, Hnds. 

 Gleclioma hederacia, L. 



Plantago lanceolata 



Primula vulgaris, Huds. 

 officinalis, Jacq. 

 . L. 

 Eumex acetosa, L. 

 Mereurialis perennis, L. 

 Eupliorl)ia amygdaloides, L. 

 Quercus peduneulata, Ehrh. 

 Betula verrucosa, Ehrh. 

 Orchis morio, L. 

 Scilla nutans, Sm. 

 Luzula campestris, BG. 

 Carex riparia, Curt. 



,, acutit'ormis, Ehrh. 



,, paniculata, L. 



The most interesting plant in tlie list is the mousetail, Mijostmis 

 miniimis, which -was found by Mr. A. E. Gibbs in a field between 

 The Fryth and Ayot 8t. Peter's Church. It is recorded in Pryor's 

 ' Flora of Hertfordshii-e ' as a " Weed in the garden of The Fryth, 

 near Welwyn." Crepis taraxacifolia was observed by Mr. James 

 Saunders in bud near Wheathamp stead, a new locality for it. 



Field Meeting, 19th May, 1894. 

 BROCKET PAKE AND WHEATHAMPSTEAD. 



Starting again from Ayot Station, a party of about forty, 

 including members from St. Albans, Watford, Hitchin, Hertford, 

 and other places, under the direction of Mr. Hopkinson, walked 

 through Brocket Park, taking a private path amidst hawthorns 

 in full blossom and through a wood towards the flint bridge, 

 by permission of Lord Mount Stephen, and at his request not 

 wandering into the wood so as to disturb the game. In the park 

 are some fine old trees, and on one hillside an immense quantity 

 of wild hyacinths was seen, giving for an extent of several acres 

 a beautiful rich blue tint. 



A field-road was then followed by the side of the Eiver Lea 

 as far as Water End House, over which the members were shown 

 by Lord Cowper's tenant, Mr. James Cole. Some interesting 

 incidents relating to the histoiy of the house, and of the Manor 

 of Sandridge, in which it is situated, were given by Mr. Upton 

 Robins and the dii-ector, the connection with it of the beautiful 

 and accomplished Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, an 

 ancestor of the present Earl Spencer, Lord of the Manor of 

 Sandiidge, being especially dwelt upon, and Mr. Cole showed the 

 room in which it is believed that she was born on the 6th of June, 

 1660. She was baptized in St. Alban's Abbey. The house was 

 built about the year 1610 by Sir John Jennings, and is a fine 

 example of the architecture of the period. 



Crossing the river here by the foot-bridge, the road leading 

 to Coleman Green was taken as far as the turning to Lower Beech 

 Hyde Farm, an ascent nearly all the way. A little beyond the 

 farm-buildings the field road crosses the Moat, a trench in which 



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