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May 25. Returned to Cambridge. 



May 31. Power of Clare, and Power of Pembroke, his brother, 

 Dr. White, and I went to Bottisham Fen, which was almost dried 

 up, and but few plants to be found. 



June 5. Went to the "Gogs" with J. Power of Pembroke. 

 Yesterday the wind left the north and east, in which quarters it 

 had continued for more than seven weeks. 



June 14. To London. 



June 15. Went with a Geological and Botanical party, conducted 

 by Ansted and E. Forbes, to Redhill, and then to Folkestone and 

 Hythe. 



June 16. Visited Lyddon Spout, and gathered Orobanche caryo- 

 phyllacea, Silene nutans, etc. ; on the bank just opposite to eastern- 

 most house of Sandgate, we got Fedia carinata. 



June 17. Found Carex divisa on the shingles, and on the way to 

 Folkestone Bromus commutatus, Hippopha'e, etc. Near Hythe Bark- 

 hausia taraxacifolia and Centaurea Calcitrajpa are abundant. 



June 18. Mr. Mackeson shewed me Ophrys arachnites on the 

 chalk hill at about five miles from Hythe. Went to Staplehurst by 

 railway, and then by coach to Hastings. 



June 19. Called upon Mr. Ranking (a surgeon), who sent his. 

 nephew to shew the place where Mr. Hailstone found Carex brizdides, 

 but it was so grown up with bushes that we could not find anything. 

 It is a bog by the side of the stream that enters the sea through 

 what was a salt marsh to the west of the town. Back to railway, 

 and to Tunbridge Wells. 



June 20. To Eridge High Rocks, where we saw Rymenophyllum 

 tunbridgense. To London. 



June 22. Forbes, Lankester, and I went to Chelsea Gardens. 



June 23. To Mr. Forster's at Woodford, and remained until 

 the next morning. 



June 24. To Bath, 7, East Beaufort Buildings. 



July 9. Went to Chepstow, and to the " Rose and Crown " Inn 

 at Tintern to meet Lingwood. Found that the Euphorbia stricta of 

 Koch is plentiful from above Tintern down the river for several 

 miles. 



July 10. Crossed the river at the abbey, and went through the 

 woods to the Devil's Pulpit, from whence there is a very fine view. 

 Then across Tyddenham Chase, along the Coalford road, and through 

 the woods, in which there is a remarkable suberect Eubus, to Brock- 

 were, and home. In the woods Campamda latifolia is not unfrequent. 



Jtdy 11. Walked to Trellech, where there is a fine Early 



