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the Lugg valley, the right bank of which, overhung by a steep wooded hill, is 
excellent hunting ground. They were rewarded by seeing the rare Agrimonia 
odorata in great profusion and very fine growth. Here, too, several rare Brambles 
grow—R. silvaticus, fusco-ater, and pyramidalis, Bab.,—we depend for the correct- 
ness of the nomenclature upon the assurance of those skilled in bramble-lore— 
with others: Cardamine impatiens also, and the Willow-herbs Epilobiwm roseum, 
and palustre, the latter a scarce plant in Herefordshire, were seen. The best 
announcement for the day however was made by Mr. H. N. Ridley, who brought 
before the notice of the Club the Wood Bitter Vetch, Vicia Orobus, D.C., which 
he had discovered in 1879, on Cusop hill: a very good addition to the Hereford- 
shire Flora. 
A pleasant return was made to Leominster, where, after dinner, the thorough 
and excellent paper of Mr. B. M. Watkins upon the Flora of the Doward Hills 
was read. 
Kehleria cristata, Pers. This Grass is extremely rare and local in the county 
of Hereford. It was found by Rey. T. Hutchinson upon the south-west side 
of Bircher Common in the year 1860; and this was at the time considered by Rev. 
W. H. Purchas to be its first discovery in Herefordshire. Subsequently how- 
ever, it appeared that the Kwhleria had been previously discovered by Mr. B. M. 
Watkins as early as the year 1848, upon the Little Doward hill. These are all the 
records at present known of its occurrence in Herefordshire. In both these cases, 
the original specimens still exist, and will be placed in the County Herbarium: 
but in both cases the plant has been in subsequent years searched for at the same 
stations in vain. This plant has been recorded for the adjoining counties of Wor- 
cester, and West Gloucester, but not for any of the other counties which touch 
Herefordshire. 
Vicia Orobus, D.C. This handsome Vetch is an inhabitant of the hilly regions 
of Brecon, Radnor, and Glamorgan. It is to be seen conspicuously on railway 
sides near Rhayader, with its beautiful spikes of showy blossom in June or July, 
and its large bunches of podsin August. Its distribution renders it likely to occur 
in the hilly western and north-western tracts of Herefordshire; but the honour of 
finding it belongs to Mr. H. N. Ridley, who met with it near Blaenau, on Cusop 
Hill, in 1879, and kindly gave a specimen to the County Herbarium. It will pro- 
bably be found eventually at some other stations in the Black Mountain, Kington, 
and possibly the Aymestry Districts; but it is so conspicuous and beautiful a 
plant that it can hardly have remained so long overlooked, unless really a great 
rarity over the whole area of Herefordshire. 
It will be observed that the two plants above noticed furnish an instance of 
what we find frequently in Herefordshire, viz., the combination in our border 
county of west-midland and Welsh types of vegetation. 
