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found, and Viola utricolor and Ornithopus perpusillus had been brought from the 
Forest of Deerfold and Berkely Knoll, both within sight. In the waters of 
Laugh-Lady Well itself a moss was found growing, which it is hoped will turn 
out to be new to the county; Hypnum speciosum, 2 moss the Rev. Augustin Ley 
has been hunting for for years. At the end of the park the members took leave 
of the host and hostess whose courtesy and company had given so much pleasure 
to their visitors throughout the day. The sirloin of beef was waiting for them at 
the Sitwell Arms, of excellent quality, well cooked, and well served, and it was 
done justice to. Some brief complimentary speeches were made, and an appeal 
was made to the members—and we make it now to our readers—to send the parti- 
culars of any attempt to obtain coal in Herefordshire, to Mr. Theo. Lane, 
Broomy Hill, Hereford, that a paper may be drawn up for the transactions of 
the club, for future reference. Mr. Cocking and Mr. Charles Fortey, Ludlow, 
had most kindly brought a collection of fossils of the Cambrian rocks for 
exhibition, From the Lower Lingula Flags—Microdiseus, Theca, Agnostus, and 
Lingula plumbea; from the Upper Lingula Flags—Dictyonema sociale and 
Lingula Davisii ; from the Tremadoe slates—Angela Sedgwickit ; from the Lower 
Llandeilo rock— Hglina, Trinucleus fimbriatus, and 7. Murchisoni, and Lingula 
Philipsii ; and from the Upper Llandeilo rocks—Lingula Ramsayti and L. 
attenuata, Agnostus McCoytt, and Ampyx nudus. 
The examination of these interesting fossils lightened pleasantly the railway 
journey. The Rev. J. D. La Touche brought specimens of Astrantia major from 
Stokesay Wood, a noted locality for this rare plant. Distant botanists welcomed 
it gladly. 
It is a very hopeful sign of the club’s progress to find its younger members 
keeping pace with the times. The Rev. F. 8. Stooke-Vaughan and Messrs. C. B. 
§& Beddoe and E. Griffith Morris took many photographie pictures during the day. 
Photography should greatly aid the work of the Woolhope Club. 
NOTES ON THE PEDWARDINE SHALES, 
By C. CaLLaway, Esq., Se.D., F.G.S., &e. 
The Dictyonema-beds at Pedwardine occur in a hollow lane, and are exposed 
in the bank on each side. They consist of olive-green fissile shales, dipping at an 
angle of about 45°, and are overlain by nearly horizontal strata of May-hill sand- 
stone (Upper Llandovery of Murchison). The shales contain, besides Dictyonema ° 
sociale, a fair abundance of the Brachiopod, Lingulella Nicholsoni. By means of 
these fossils, a swell as by the lithological characters, these beds are correlated with 
the Dictyonema-sbales of Malvern, and with the Shineton Shales. The Shineton 
Shales occur in force on the tributaries of Severn, near the Wrekin, and have 
yielded a rich fauna of Trilobites and other fossils, by which the formation has 
been proved to be of Tremadoc (Upper Cambrian) age. At Shineton and at Ped- 
wardine, the shales are close to the Great Fault which runs in a south-westerly 
direction through South Shropshire. 
