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has added Convallaria multiflora, which, until that time, had never been known 

 to grow in the county. There is every hope and expectation that a few more may 

 yet be recorded. The number at present is believed to be nearer 600 than 500. 



In No. 10, comprising Aymestry, Wigmore, and Leintwardine, Mr. Thomas 

 Woodhouse's observations, and the excursions of the Club, have brought up the 

 number of species to 463. Lathraea squamaria is plentiful near Kinsham. 



Of No. II, called the Kington district, I fear that very little is at present 

 known. Messrs. Hutchinson and Miller have found a few interesting plants, and 

 among them Mcenchia erecta. 



No. 12, a narrow slip extending from Leominster to BriUey, is considered 

 more particularly my district. I wish that I could say it has been more closely 

 examined than it has been. Of the western portion I know very little indeed. 

 The number of species ascertained may be about 500. 



From No. 13, the Golden Valley district, Mr. BlashUl has recorded a smaE 

 number of species found in the northern part, and the excursion of the Club in 

 1854, to Monmouth Cap and Rowlstone, has enabled us to record a few hundred 

 species from the southern part. 



No. 14, containing the south-west portion of the county, adjoining the last, 

 remains almost unexplored. 



In the Geological branch of our proceedings, the discoveries made by some of 

 our members, as well as the light thrown on them by those of others in Scotland 

 and elsewhere, are most interesting. I am informed by Mr. Symonds that the 

 Upper Ludlow bone bed has been discovered near Malvern by the Rev. F. Dyson, 

 at BrockhUl Copse, identical in position, &c., with the other known localities. 

 A great discovery has recently been made by Mr. Salter, viz., that the Cambrian 

 rocks of the Longm3Tid are fossUiferous — that trUobites and fucoids are found 

 there, and it seems to remain for Sir R. Murchison to announce, in his second 

 edition of Siluria, that there are no stratified deposits which can be called azoic. 

 With regard to Mr. Lightbody's discoveries, I beg to say that I requested him to 

 give us some account of them in a paper, or allow me to incorporate them in this 

 address. He has chosen the latter mode. In a letter just received he says, " I 

 found on Whitcliffe in the spring, a trifid tail or spine of some crustacean, which 

 I fsmcied might be ' Leptocheles,' and which, when sent to London, was at first 

 said to be a ' Dithyrocharis,' but is now, on further examination by Salter, 

 pronounced to be ' Ceratiocharis,' a new species, which he has called 

 ' Robustus,' being much stouter in the make than the spiaes called ' Leptocheles 

 Murchisoni,' and which must now be called ' Ceratiocharis Murchisoni.' Mr. 

 Salter, looking through our museum at Ludlow, in the autumn, fortunately dis- 

 covered in an lumamed species, the tail or body of probably L. or C. Murchisoni, 

 with the base of the spiaes attached, and which came from Clunbury. One of 

 my boys afterwards found on Whitcliffe, two joints of the body, with parts of 

 spines attached, and exhibiting longitudinal striae, and therefore probably differ- 

 ing from the Clunbury specimen." This fossil is engraved in the October number 



