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After the transaction of some little business, the members dispersed to botan- 

 ise, examine the entrenchments or admire the scenery, as severallj' pleased them. 

 The first search was made for the flowering fern, Botrychiuni lunaria, Moonwort. 

 It was soon found, growing sparsely within the camp on the eastern side, but 

 with greater abundance in the field just outside the northern entrance. Here, 

 too, the Rev. Augustin Ley gathered a frond of this fern with two panicles of 

 blossom instead of one. The plants were smaller than they otherwise would have 

 been in consequence of the dry weather during the last two months ; but they 

 were there, and every botanist present who had not gathered it before, will ever 

 connect it with the Bach Camp, for none feels more forcibly the influence of local 

 circumstances than plant lovers : 



" Objects which least inspire delight 

 Take pleasing tints from thee, 

 And strangely satisfy our sight 

 From mere locality." 



In the field outside the north entrance too, the Adder's Tongue, Ophioglossum 

 vulgatum, grew side by side with the Moonwort. Neither of these small flower- 

 ing ferns is rare in the district, but they are often overlooked. 



At the sound of the whistle the members and visitors assembled imder the 

 shadow of the trees on the inner entrenchment, to listen to the Woolhope Club's 

 version of the Magpie, the Jackdaw, the Rook, and the Raven in Herefordshire. 

 This paper we shall shortly present to our readers to speak for itself ; but before 

 the Bach Camp is left, the Badgers, for which it is noted, must be alluded to. 

 Near the western entrance, a Badger's earth has been broken into, but whether 

 by accident or design was not known. It was covered up by flat stones above it. 

 Badgers are sometimes caught by putting a sack in their iioles in the night time, 

 when they are away, and driving them hurriedly home by dogs. If a sack had 

 not been put in this earth it might have been, but it does not follow that it would 

 catch the Badger, for this, the only English representative of the bear family, is 

 a very clever knowing fellow, and is not to be caught easily in any other way 

 than by following him home and digging him out. The Badger, Meles vulgaris, 

 is a slow, clumsy animal. He walks on the soles of the feet, without using his 

 long-clawed toes, and rolls so akwardly in his gait that at dusk of evening he 

 might easily be mistaken for a pig : 



"Upon the plain he halts, but when he runs 

 On craggy rock, or sleepy hill, we see 

 None runs more swift and easier than he." 



From time immemorial Badgers have existed in this district, and " from inform- 

 ation received " they exist here still. On the brow of the adjoining hill, within 

 half-a-mile of the camp, its old Anglo-Saxon name of "Brock" is preserved in 

 the hamlet of Brockmanton, and there is a mill of the same ilk on the stream 

 below. Badgers are becoming more scarce in Herefordshire as they are else- 

 where, but they still exist in some localities of the county. The following account 

 of the capture of a pair this year in Herefordshire has been obligingly sent by 

 Mrs. Ley, of Sellack, to the Club :— 



