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Sept. 8. Went alone to Much Birch and Little Birch and 

 Landinabo. Afterwards W. H. Purchas (now a student of Durham) 

 came, and we three went to the Mynde Woods to shew him 

 A. odorata. 



SejJt. 10. Lingwood, Purchas, and I went to Whitchurch, on 

 the Wye below Boss. Walked to the Iron Tower on the top of the 

 Little Doward Hill ; then descended to the river side, finding what 

 is thought to be Epipactis ovalis by the way, in the thick, stony, and 

 steep woods. Examined the rocks near the river, and then went 

 above a long range of lofty cliffs on the Great Doward, where we 

 saw Tilia parviflwa and T. grandiflwa growing side by side out of 

 the clefts of the rock, and each apparently equally quite wild. Got 

 some dinner at Whitchurch, and returned to Lyston in the evening. 

 Watkins, the Relieving Officer of the Union, formerly a shoemaker 

 of Monmouth, a good botanist, walked with us. 



Sept. 12. Went to St. Weonards, The tumulus recently opened 

 by T. Wright is left open. There is nothing now to be seen except 

 a broad ditch extending to the middle with heaps of stones in it. 

 Returned by Trewathen Pool (now drained), finding Carex pendula 

 there, Old Hall, and Llanwarne Court. 



Sept. 13. Drove to Kilpeck. Walked back over Saddleback 

 Hill. Saw three oaks, perhaps Don's three species, in the fields 

 below the north side of the hill, indigenous certainly. 



Sejjt. 14. Sunday. Lingwood and I walked to Orcop to church. 



Sept. 15. Saw plenty of Ballota ruder alls at Lyston ; it abounds 

 in the neighbourhood, I am told. Walked to and through the Mynde 

 Woods ; the only plant of interest there seen was Lastrea spinulosa. 



Sept. 16. Went with the Woolhope Field Club to Abergavenny, 

 and up the valley to a waterfall, quarries at Mynydd Pen Gwern,. 

 Bryn Mawr, and Beaufort. Breakfasted at Abergavenny, lunch 

 with Dr. Bevan at Beaufort, dined at Abergavenny. Went to and 

 from the latter place by rail, to and from Beaufort by a hired coach. 

 A beautiful valley ; above that, the barren district of the iron and. 

 coal works. Saw coal quarried close to the surface of the ground. 



Sept. 1 7. Left Lyston ... to Clifton, to spend a few days with 

 the Rev. H. Longueville Jones. 



Sept. 18. Walked about Bristol, and saw the Library at Clifton, 

 and the old City Library. To tea with the Rev. . . . Fen wick, a- 

 great book-collector, above eighty years of age. 



Sept. 19. To the camps on Leigh Downs ; back by Ashton. In 

 one of the camps the river bank has been grouted with mortar, which 

 has only penetrated a short distance. 



Sept. 20. Walked over to Durdham Down looking for the 

 Roman road from Bath to Sea Mills, but could not find it. Returned 

 by the river and the camp on the top of St. Vincent's Rocks. 



