148 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1849 



April 12. Drove to Tottenham Park. The gardens poor, except 

 a fine hedge of rhododendrons. We went for some miles about the 

 forest. 



April 16. Took a long walk above the Chalk Downs. 



April 18. To Cambridge. 



May 2. Hort and I went to the Gogs; very little in flower. 

 Viola hirta-calcarea and Muscari racemosum. 



May 24. Gamlingay party, seventeen in number. Found Sagina 

 ciliata on a bank near to the old hall, in the lane going towards 

 brick pits. 



May 29. Walked to Arbury Camp and King's Hedges with 

 Mr. Arthur Taylor, K. Taylor's brother. 



May 31. With the same antiquary to Grantchester to make out 

 the Eoman remains there. 



June 4. Walked to Barton, and nearly as far as Haslingfield, 

 to look for Chara polysperma, which I gathered there in 1833, but 

 could not find it. Then by an occupation road to Long Brook, and 

 over the fields to Lord's Bridge, in the old channel to the south- 

 east of which, I gathered Chara syncarpa /3. Then to Comberton by 

 the brook-side, and Newbould returned to Cambridge with me. By 

 the side of the occupation road, opposite to the public house at the 

 end of Barton, I gathered a Eanunculus, usually called hirsuttts, but 

 with much broader nectaries. 



June 14. To Bath. 



June 18. Went over Bath wick Hill to the Dundas Aqueduct, 

 then up to Conkwell, through the wood to Monckton Farleigh, 

 Bathford, and home. Ornithogalum pyrenaicum not in flower yet. 



June 20. My aunt Bedford went to Clevedon. I went by rail. 

 ... for a few days. 



June 21. Walked by the ruins of Walton Church (little more 

 than a tower) and Walton Castle (a late building of no interest) 

 along the Downs by the Pigeon House and Farley to Portishead. 

 On the right-hand bank of the lane, a little beyond Farley, I found 

 one patch of Sagina ciliata. Returned by Weston and Walton, 

 Weston Church is good. A valley to the north of Weston is worth 

 a visit. It is deep, narrow, and wooded. 



June 22. By rail to Weston-super-mare, a place much increased 

 of late. Examined the British fort of Wortlebury, and then followed 

 the top of the hill to Kewstoke. Along the shore, sandy, to the 

 Middle Hope Hill. Near Sand, found Cerastium atrovirens, Alsine 

 media, Sagina procumbens marina. At Woodspring is a farm-house, 

 formed In the church and buildings of a priory. The tower perfect 

 and fine, well worth a careful examination. By a footpath to 

 St. Lawrence Wick, where there is a fine foot of a cross raised high 



