182 president's address. 



greatest profusion ; Vicia sylvatica, in great abundance ; Carda- 

 mine amara, Chrysosplenium alternifoUum, C. oppositifolium, Cam- 

 panula latifolia, Arenaria verna, Thlaspi alpestre, and Polypodium 

 Dryopteris. 



And of the migratory birds, these two were observed : — 

 Spotted Flycatcher^ Langley Castle ; and Common Redstart^ near 

 lead-workings, on each side of the Allen, south of the Railway. 



Staward Peel, or Staworth Peel^ as it is printed in Mr. Ing- 

 ham's Address, is also termed Staward-le-Peel. 



Some old walls, and a gable of this mediaeval fortified house, 

 or castle, are still to be seen. According to Wallis (vol. 2, 

 p. 32), Edward, Duke of York, granted it, in the year 1386, to 

 the Eremite Friars of Hexham, paying the annual rent of five 

 marks for the same. As to the meaning of the word Peel^ it is 

 almost unnecessary to say, except for my more southern hearers, 

 that it was a fortified hoiise,'^ built, as Mr. Hedley correctly 

 states, " for securing its inhabitants and their cattle in moss- 

 trooping times." 



Staward Peel stands among very fine, and even romantic 

 scenery, at a short distance on the west from the " Black Dyke," 

 or, as it is named, the " Scots' Dyke," in Horsley's Map of 

 Northumberland. Dr. Bruce observes, " The only conjecture 

 hazarded respecting the origin of this Dyke is, that it formed the 

 line of demarcation between the Kingdoms of Northumbria and 

 Cumbria."f 



The Third Field Meeting took place in Teesdale, on the 21st 

 of July. 



This locality is represented, by all who have visited it, as one 

 of extreme interest, in a scientific view, to the Botanist, the 

 Geologist, and the Mineralogist. 



I am sorry that I cannot give you a full account of what 

 occurred on that occasion, because I have only been furnished 

 with the names of these plants — some, indeed, of great rarity — 



* Or Castle, "Pela;" according to Du Cauge, "Gloss, fid Scriptores Med. et Inf. 

 Latinitatis," Tom. v., p. 339, is the same as "Pelum," "Castellum, arx, Anglis Pile vel Pille." 

 Both words occur in old Latin charters of the 14th century, as preserved in Eymer's 

 " Fo?dera." 



t St'e Bnice's " Roman Wall," p. 212. 



