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picture need not be dull (or want of life figures. By the way, Mrs. Slddons's advent at 

 the Brecon " Leg of Mutton," should not be forgotten, nor yet perhaps Sir Hugh 

 Evans, at the Priory Church, or Sir David Gam, at the adjoining manor house. Crom- 

 well preaching at Maesyronen (the field of the ash trees) is another vision worth recalling. 



The President concluded by pointing out the road to be taken to Llan- 

 goise Common, and announcing that as th& trains left Talgarth very early, 

 and there were many visitors, the business of the club must be transacted 

 before dinner. 



"When the paper was finished, Mr. E. Lees, of Worcester, made a remark 

 in reference to the legend of the circular marks said to have been super- 

 naturally impressed on the sandstone. This was in fact a repetition of the 

 old Herefordshire legend of St. Catharine, the tracks of whose mare and colt 

 were so well known in the old red sandstone between Cliftonon-Teme and 

 Ledbury. Some legend invariably accompanied these hollows in sandstone 

 wherever they appeared, and it was very curious that in former times such 

 notice should have been taken of natural objects, when if noticed by rustics 

 for the first time in the present day no pains would be taken to make a tale 

 out of them, or give any saint the credit of contributing to their formation. 



On the summit of the hill the whortelberry, vaccinium myrtillus, was 

 found blossoming freely, and from a hole in the rock Mr. Martin got a few 

 specimens of the brittle fern, the Cystopteris fragilis. In a meadow on the 

 descent of the hill the same gentleman discovered that rare fern, the moonwort, 

 the Botriichium. lunaria. The Lycopodium alpinum— the alpine club moss- 

 was also gathered on thehill. The herb Paris— Paris quadrifolia, the bird 

 cherry— Pj'wn us Padus, and the globe flower— fj-oKius Europceus, were also 

 observed to be growing freely in several localities. 



Pointing to the lake in view, though with a considerable breadth of 

 country to get over in steeple-chase fashion, the President then gave the 

 word to advance, and a somewhat irregular scutter took i>lace down hill, 

 the slippery turf rendering the descent more treacherous to the feet than 

 even the arduous ascent, and when the cultivated country was gained there 

 were many stitf fences to surmount, in the course of leaping or struggling 

 thiough which some of the party came to grief. The botanical section, how- 

 ever, were solaced with the view of several meadows refulgent with the 

 globe-flower (TroUius Europaus), the pretty pink-coloured Pedicidaris 

 sylvatica was plentiful, while in one pasture numerous specimens of the 

 moonwort ( Botrychium lunaria) was gathered. The crest of the Mynydd itself 

 had only produced Lycopodium alpinum, and the delicate little fern Cystopteris 

 fragilis. In various copses and hedges, one of the most beautiful objects 

 seen during the day was the bird-cherry (Prunus Padus), which scattered 

 over the whole country between Talgarth and Llangorse exhibited its 

 pendulous racemes of silvery flowers most profusely. But little could be done 

 with the hammer, and fossils were therefore scarce, but in one part of the descent 

 a quarry of cornstone recently broken into was observed, and here the Kev. 

 G. H. Cornwall detected portions of the Pteraspis and Cephalaspis. 



