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greatly lowered since the enclosure, and seems likely to be soon 

 almost totally destroyed by the plough. Then to Rampton, where 

 we inspected a very curious quadrangular mound, defended by a deep 

 and broad ditch, and an outer bank on three sides. It is highly 

 deserving of a careful examination. Returned from Oakington 

 station. 



May 27. Townsend, Lukis, Newbould, and I went by rail to 

 Dullingham. Walked and botanized on the Devil's Ditch, and in 

 Wood Ditton Park wood. Geranium sanguineum and Orchis ustulata 

 in flower. Returned by rail. 



June 1. Henslow's Gamlingay party. We found Malaxis paludosa 

 in a little patch of remaining bog. 



June 3. I went with Townsend and Woodhouse to Brandon, 

 and walked to Thetford. The greatest variety of plants near the 

 former. 



June 24. Newbould and I went to Coldham Common, Cherry 

 Hinton, and home. We found nothing curious. 



June 27. To-day we went to Fen Ditton and Baitsbite. 



July 4. Newbould and I went to Brandon. We found, just out 

 of the town on the way to Thetford, Crepis foetida. We then crossed 

 the country, finding nothing, to Redneck Heath, where we got a 

 great quantity of Apera interrupta, especially in a pit at about half- 

 a-mile from the Elvedon road. We also found there Alsine tenuifolia 

 fi viscida amongst the corn in plenty. On walls in Thetford Galium 

 anglicum and Foa suhcompressa. 



July 15. Newbould brought me Orobanche Picridis from Comber- 

 ton. I went there with him and gathered plenty of it in a field just 

 within the parish of Toft, at the end of a field lane to the left of the 

 road. 



Jtdy 27. Went to Saffron Walden to meet Borrer. Went with 

 G. S. G-ibson and Joshua Clarke to Linton, and near Hildersham 

 was shewn plenty of Filago Jussiaei. We then went to Comberton 

 and gathered Orobanche Picridis. Newbould returned to Cambridge 

 with us, and we got Potamogeton zosterifolius in the ditch behind 

 Queens' College, and a ditch on the east side of Sheep's Green. 



July 28. Borrer, Newbould, Gibson, and I went to Thetford. 

 We gathered Apera Spica-venti near the town, A. interrupta in the 

 old place, Melilotus arvensis near the town, Filago apicidata by the 

 Apera pit, SclerantMts perennis and Silene otites near Redneck Farm, 

 Galium anglicum on walls near the town. 



Aug. 1. Churchill Babington brought me Filago Jussiaei from 

 the Hills Road, and Knautia arvensis integrifolia from Cherry Hinton. 



Aug. 2. I went alone and found the Filago plentifully by the 

 Hills Road, especially near the house at the foot of the hill near the 



