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site of the old church, which is said to have been Norman in style. The old roof 

 is replaced, said to have been originally erected during the protectorate of Crom- 

 well (1658), but the Church has lost such early architectural features as it may 

 have had. Some interesting old Priory buildings exist at Stoke Prior, now used 

 as farm buildings. They belonged probably to the Priory Church of Leominster, 

 to which this church was a chapel of ease, and the living is still in the gift of the 

 Vicar. 



The members had a good hour to spare at Leominster. The majority went to 

 see the ancient and beautiful Priory Church, under the guidance of Mr. Robert 

 Clarke. One bad the pleasure of visiting the most interesting collection of plants 

 in the county, in the gardens of Mr. Henry Newman ; but the palm for persever- 

 ance in the Club's work of the day must be awarded to the Rev. Augustin Ley, 

 who employed the time happily in botanizing the ditches in the Lugg Meadows 

 and the banks of the river. He brought back some treasures. Many forms of roses 

 and brambles had been met with during the day, but in the Lugg Meadows at 

 Leominster, Mr. Ley gathered the bramble Rubus cosaim pseudo-idceus, the first 

 time it has been found in Herefordshire. The Polygonum maculatum was very 

 fine on the Lugg here ; and in one ditch he found the very local species Schrophu- 

 laria Ehrharti, Ehrhart's Figwort, growing plentifully. It is a plant that has been 

 long known in the Leominster district. It grows, too, at Croft, and near Hereford. 

 The most interesting plant Mr. Ley found, however, was a species of Burr-reed, 

 to which attention was first called by Mr. Beeby, as new to science, in the 

 " Journal of Botany '' for July, 1885. He has named it Sparganium neglectum ; 

 and well he might, for it is curious how so large a plant could have been so long 

 overlooked. It differs very distinctly in the form of its fruit, as well as in the 

 structure of its epicarp, from the ordinary Branched Burr-reed, Sparganium 

 ramosum. It has been found in several counties, Salop and Worcester amongst 

 the number. It was gathered at Moccas Pool ten days since by the Rev. J. H. 

 Thompson, and it is believed that it will be found to be one of the commonest 

 forms of the Branched Burr-reed in Herefordshire. 



The damp of the day was dispersed at the Royal Oak Hotel, and after dinner 

 two very interesting papers were read ; one on " The Botany of the Honddu and 

 Grwynne Valleys," and the other on "The Pheasant," in continuation of "The 

 Birds of Herefordshire." 



