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stonework of the Iron Tower were found several specimens of the local plant 

 Monotropa Hypopitys, yellow, or peach scented, bird's nest. It is parasitic, on the 

 roots of the Beech tree. Pyrus aria, Whitebeam or White Wild Pear tree and 

 its sub-species, Pyrus rupicola, with narrow leaves, grow freely on the rocks be- 

 side the Wye valley. The Belladonna plant, Atropa Belladonna, grew in great 

 luxuriance on the loose stones and earth near the park wall. The Rev. Augustin 

 Ley had gathered the Blue Fleabane, Erigeron aciHs, on the road side near old 

 Marstow church. In Scudamore wood, Ganarew, he had gathered Dipsacus pilo- 

 sus, the small Teasel, or Shepherd's Rod, and it grows also in the Doward woods. 

 On the river beach at the Weir, Solanum nigrum was gathered, and on the banks 

 grew several Polygonums, including the local and rare Polygonum mite. There 

 were also several local mints (Mentha paludosa, Wirtgeniana, and suh-glabra); 

 and any number of species of Bramble, including some rare ones, such as Buhus 

 Borreri, new to the county, pyramidalis and imbricatus, which is also rare. 



The Btibus fruticosus was well attended to, as one gentleman facetiously re- 

 marked, for its fruit, the blackberries, were very fine and ripe, 



" Duly eager of the tempting store 

 Adventurous hands the thorny maze explore." 



And very grateful they were in the long descent of the hill. 



A wide growth of hemp agrimony, Eupatorium cannabinum, occupied the 

 lower portion of the wood, an indication of very damp ground, for it is a plant 

 that more frequently grows by the water side. The path leading to the limestone 

 cliff, on the Great Doward, was soon gained. In this cliflF are many fissures 

 or caverns, which the explorations of the Rev. Wm. Symonds and Sir. Wm. Guise, 

 some few years since proved beyond doubt to have been formerly the dens of 

 wild beasts, which in past ages of the world must have occupied these regions (see 

 Woolhope Transactions for 1874). 



King Arthur's Cave is the largest of these caverns. It was found, neverthe- 

 less, with some difficulty, for its entrance was concealed by some trees and a fence, 

 and as everybody on arriving entered the cave, the late comers passed by and 

 found themselves alone in the wilderness, and wondered how the rest had sud- 

 denly disappeared. A lookout, however, was kept, and when all were assembled 

 it was told how Mr. Symonds, at first in search of minerals, began to find bones, 

 how he had the floor of the cave pecked up, and how beneath crusts of stalactite 

 forming the floor, one or two feet in thickness, he found the bones of many extinct 

 animals. Amongst the number were many specimens of the teeth of the cave 

 lion (Felis spilceaj, cave bear, and particularly of the cave hyaena, and the bones 

 of their prey, such as those of the woolly-haired rhinoceros (ticorrhinus), the 

 mammoth elephant, the great Irish deer, and the reindeer. The bones of the 

 rhinoceros were found to be far the most numerous, and many of them bore the 

 marks upon them of the teeth of the hyaena and cave lion. One great forearm of 

 the mammoth was dragged in partly gnawed and hidden in a chink of limestone 

 rock for future gnawing. Beneath this atalactitic floor, sealed up for ages, flakes 

 of flint and scrapers were found lying side by side with the bones of these extinct 

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