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Pentamerus, Atri-pa, Leptajna, Orthis Orbicularis, Rhynconella, &x. ; but time 

 and weather are fast effacing the memoranda, and vegetation is attempting to 

 conceal the masses of rock that lie scattered over an area of two or three acres, 



" Like crags and rocks confusedly hurled, 

 The fragments of an earlier world." 



In proceeding hence along the outer northern border of the great upheaved 

 valley, the botanist recognised an abundance of the Centaurea Scabiosa and Saxa- 

 fraga granulata. The party now proceeded towards the British Camp, known by 

 the name of the Saxon " St. Ethelbert," where part of the earthworks are stiU 

 discernible : hence were brought within view classic " SUuria," the Syenite of the 

 Malverns, the Basalt of Titterstone, the Old Red of Radnorshire and Breconshire, 

 the Cornstone ridges of Herefordshire, and the Limestone wall of the Forest of 

 Dean, with the Oolitic formations of the Severn and Cotteswold. It was on this 

 spot that the Club experienced the hospitality of Mr. Evans, of Sufton Court, 

 who, though absent from the mansion, had ordered there an excellent supply of 

 refreshments. After dispensing these beneath the lofty well-known Firs, we 

 proceeded to Hutton's or " Adam's Rocks," at the eastern edge of the camp. 

 From this place the " Valley of Elevation " is seen at a glance, and the central 

 dome of Caradoc Sandstone rises through the deposits before you to the south-east. 



The geologists of the party then made for the Dormington Limekilns, as 

 mentioned elsewhere ; the botanists met with Paris quadrifolia, Hieracium 

 murorum. Geranium lucidum, Helleborus foetidus, and viridis ; also the Allium 

 ursinum, or Wild Garlic, in abundance. In Dormington Wood, and near the 

 LimekUns, were found the Ranunculus parviflora, and the Columbine or Aqui- 

 legia vulgaris, Chlora perfoliata, Erodium cicutarium, Filago minima, and 

 Verbena Lantana ; the Convallaria majalis was also met with plentifully in 

 Checkley Wood. 



We dined at the Foley Arms, and were joined by the Members of the Malvern 

 Club and several visitors. After dinner Mr. Symonds (who had been prevented 

 by indisposition from jouiing us at Adam's Rocks, and there giving the party the 

 benefit of his complete knowledge of the subject, and the locality, by a lecture 

 on the spot) favoured us with an able address, noticing recent important dis- 

 coveries m geology, such as animal remains found in the Longmynd Rocks, 

 near Church Stretton, hitherto believed to be azoic ; the discovery of the remains 

 of fish in the South Wales Coal Fields by Dr. Bevan, and of a highly organized 

 flowering plant in the Newcastle Coal Shale : also the new light thrown on the 

 " tile-stones " by the researches of Mr. Banks, and the greatly enlarged range 

 over which Trilobitic life extended, &c. Then followed an animated discussion, 

 sustained chiefly by Mr. Lees, of Worcester, and Mr. Flavell Edmunds, of Hereford, 

 on the sudden appearance of plants, rare in the district, in railway cuttings ; Mr. 

 Edmunds maintained that they clearly resulted from the germination of seeds, 

 buried for ages, but still retaining vitality ; Mr. Lees considered that such seeds 

 must have been brought thither by the winds, and rejected the admissibility of 

 the other explanation. 



