154 CHARLES CARD ALE BABINGTON. ' [1850 



June 15. Came back to Cambridge. 



June, 18. Went to London to the Linnean Meeting, 



June 19. To Oxford, to the meeting of the Archaeological 

 Institute. Stopped at the "King's Arms." Was asked to take 

 rooms at Christchurch (bj"- Hill) and Magdalen College (by Daubeny). 



June 20. Breakfast at Daubeny's, and visited the library of 

 Magdalen College with Dr. Bloxam. Was shewn a lot of notes, 

 etc., for a second edition of "Lobel's Herbal," which had been 

 neglected and nearly lost. Dined in Magdalen College Hall. 



June 21. Dined with Daubeny, and met Mrs. Hamilton Gray, 

 the authoress about Etruria. 



June 22. Went to Silchester with a party by special train. A 

 peculiarly hot day. The Roman wall is very perfect, twelve to 

 fourteen feet high, and nearly two miles in circuit. i)ined with 

 Dr. Acland. 



June 24. To Bridgewater, where I met a Mr. F. Cell, of C.C.C. 



June 25. After walking about Bridgewater, I was joined in the 

 middle of the day by W. W. Newbould and W. H. Coleman, and 

 we went by coach to Dunster. Went in the evening to the station 

 of Sagina ciluita, at the south-east end of Grabbist, Eubus Leesii 

 near Boniton, and Lastrea foenisecii up the coombe to the left from 

 there. 



June 26. Went by the beach to Blue Anchor and the station of 

 Prunus capitata. Found plenty of the bushes, but very few flowers. 

 Frunus capitata MSS. is a plant very like F. spinosa in habit, and is 

 perhaps a state of it. Returned by Old Cleeve. 



June 27. To the top of Grabbist Hill to see the British 

 amphitheatre. The amphitheatre is placed on the top of the hill, 

 open to the south on the precipitous face of it, and approached 

 from below by a zigzag ascending path, formerly having a loose 

 retaining wall of stones on its upper side. It forms a deep semi- 

 circular hollow, with an arc of about one hundred paces, and chord 

 of fifty paces. A path descends into it at the east end from the 

 level of the hill. Hillside below the nearly straight open side. At 

 a distance of about eighty paces back from it there is a boundary 

 ditch. Depth, sixty or eighty feet. Down by Parsonage to the 

 Dunster Marshes, where we found Banuncuhis confusits, Trifolium 

 maritimum, Sagina maritima, etc. Went to Minehead, and called on, 

 and spent the evening with, Capt., Mrs., and Miss Giflford. 



June 28. To Porlock. 



June 29. To Culbone . . . below the church we found Meconopsis 

 ■cambrica. 



June 30. Sunday. To church at Porlock. In the afternoon we 

 went to Culbone, but found that there was no service. 



