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The cairn at the summit was reached at length, and the Ordnance Survey 

 cairn, simply and firmly built was close at hand, and, with the Giant's Chair 

 were all visited, and the glorious view on all sides enjoyed. Where was the 

 President, who was announced to give here the Geological address? He had last 

 been seen hammering out fossil plants from an outcrop of coal in the valley below 

 and It was clear he had shirked the hill and gone off " by Bedlam to Bitterley " 

 according to the programme, so the descent was soon begun to rejoin him. 



The parsley fern, Allosorus crispus, was seen growing at the foot of the old 

 cross in Caynham churchyard, but none was met with on the hill. The Osmunda 

 regalis, was not seen at all, nor yet the Botmchium lunare; but the oak-fern 

 Polypodium DryopterU, and its limestone sister Polypodium calcareum, were found 

 in abundance on the stony descent of the hill, with many more common varieties • 

 and here it may be added, to conclude the botany of the day, that on the banks of 

 the river Ludwyche the poisonous Monks-hood, or Wolfsbane, Aconiiuni Napellus 

 has completely naturalized itself, and was growing freely in patches aU along iti 

 banks. 



The carriages were rejoined at Bitterley, and another pleasant drive soon 

 landed the visitors at that good hostelry, the Feathers' Hotel, fuUy prepared to 

 enjoy the good things provided. How they did so, how an excellent paper on 

 "The Salmon Disease " was read by Mr. H. C. Moore, and how Dr. Bull showed 

 that Leintwardine occupied the site of the old Roman station and town of 

 Bravinium, and how the President's Geology was given in the return train, there 

 IS neither time nor space to tell. A large section of the company immediately 

 after dinner fled from the papers and went off to see the castle and the church ; 

 let us hope they did it in the spirit of the local poet above quoted, with 



"Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven." 



