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Wars of the Roses, church restoration had been active elsewhere—at Winchcomb, 
at Gloucester, at Great Malvern Priory, at Little Malvern, and also at Hereford 
Cathedral. Church restoration had been busy again within these venerable walls 
during the past few years, amid different surroundings and in quieter times. If 
time permitted he would gladly have given some details of what had been done. 
This, however, he could safely say, that the one object of those who had engaged 
in it had been, while adapting the church for the worship of Almighty God, in far 
altered times, to maintain intact each relic of the past, and to preserve the 
memorials of the Fitz-Hamons, the De Clares, the De Spencers and the Beau- 
champs, for the loving admiration of generations yet to come. 
The large company afterwards walked round the Abbey, the interesting 
features of the buiding being ably explained by the Vicar. 
This exceedingly interesting feature of the day’s proceedings having been 
completed, the party reassembled at the Bell Hotel, where about 70 partook of an 
excellent dinner, but, as is too frequently the case, the waiting could not fairly be 
praised, nevertheless, the gentlemen of the party kindly undertook to supply de- 
ficiences, and that which might have caused annoyance, became merely the source 
of merriment. The chair was taken by Mr. G. H. Piper, F.G.S., President of 
the Malvern Field Club, who said, that although the clubs discourage the ordinary 
after dinner speeches, they reserve the privilege and never deny themselves the 
pleasure of drinking the health of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and in 
these days when brazen atheism and unmitigated disloyalty are rampant in the land 
—when impudent infidels thrust themselves into positions—which should be places 
of honour—filled by honourable men, and they who should know better foster 
those foul pretenders, it becomes the duty of all who love their country, and are 
proud of its greatness, to rally round the throne, and defend the institutions 
which our ancestors fought for and established. ‘ 
Votes of thanks to the Rev. W. 8. Symonds and to the Rev. H. Robeson 
for the admirable papers they had read, and the kind assistance they had afforded, 
were proposed by the Chairman, and ably seconded by Dr. Bull. 
Time did not permit the reading of Mr. Ley’s paper, prepared for this 
meeting. A botanical subject, so carefully treated, is better enjoyed when read 
at leisure, 
NOTES ON SOME LESS-KNOWN HEREFORDSHIRE 
PLANTS. 
By Rev. A. Lev—May 19th, 1881. 
THE present paper makes no pretensions to be what is called critical. It arises 
out of the simplest practical necessity ; the necessity namely of obtaining inform- 
ation, greater in amount and more accurate in character, respecting the flowering 
plants and ferns inhabiting the County of Hereford, with a view to the comple- 
