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Valeriana Pyrendfca, growing in luxuriance. This plant is doubtless an intro- 

 duction but it has nevertheless established itself in the British Flora. It is found 

 in many places in Scotland, but so far as the writer is aware, this is the only 

 English locality for it. As it exists in the pleasure-grounds it is really a nuisance. 

 Let the ground be carefully dug over in spring, and the thick rhizome be picked 

 out, and future visitors to Church Stretton will be spared from many a horrid 

 smell by this visit of the Woolhope Club. 



There is in these grounds, too, an old stone coffin, found in some altera- 

 tions that were made at the church, which gives the more ample scope to the 

 ingenuity of archaeologists, since it shows no sign or inscription to help towards 

 its own history. 



The hotel was quickly reached from the rectory grounds, and the visitors 

 did good justice to the fare there provided for them. After dinner an eloquent 

 paper "On the Moke Rare Plants of the Longmynds " was read by Dr. 

 Griffith H. Griffiths, M.D., the hon. secretary to the Worcester Field Club. 

 It was not quite concluded when time was called, and amidst a few just but 

 hurried compliments to the lecturer, the majority of the members rushed off to 

 meet the train ; and thus ended one of those enjoyable Field Club days in 

 which all things went well, when fine scenery, beautiful weather, agreeable 

 companionship, and clever scientific papers, combined to leave a pleasant record 

 of the day in the minds of all who had the good fortune to be present. 



The following gentlemen attended the meeting : — Jas. Rankin, Esq., M.A., 

 President for the day ; Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq,, M.P. ; the Rev. E. 

 Donald Carr, Honorary Secretary to the Caradoc Field Club ; Dr. Griffith 

 H. Griffiths, Honorary Secretary to the Worcester Naturalists' Field Club ; the 

 Rev. J. D. La Touche ; Dr. Bull ; the Rev. James Davies and Mr. J. H. 

 Davies; Arthur Armitage, Esq.; Robt. Lightbody, Esq., F.G.S.; Elmes Y. 

 Steel, Esq., and Mr. Elmes Steel; Robert Lloyd Kenyon, Esq. ; Thomas Cam, 

 Esq. ; George Harris Lea, Esq. ; the Rev. Thomas West ; John Lloyd, Esq. ; 

 Henry Gardner, Esq. ; Folliot Sandford, Esq. ; the Rev. George Sandford, and 

 Miss Greene Armitage ; Geo. Cocking, Esq. ; Miss Hodgson ; the Rev. Bernard 

 Marshall ; the Rev. AV. C. Tabor ; T. Curley, Esq., F.G.S. ; Hy. Deane, Esq. ; 

 the Rev. J. H. Jukes ; Marcellus Newton, Esq. ; the Rev. T. Owen Rock ; 

 Dr. George ; the Rev. W. D. V. Duncombe ; J. P. Hamer, Esq. ; the Rev. G. 

 H. Clay ; the Rev. Alfred James ; F. H. LyelL, Esq. ; Richard Wilding, Esq. ; 

 Mr. Harinan, Mr. E. T. Husbands, Mr. John Andrews, Master W. La Touche, 

 Masters Ernest, Alexis, and Henry Bull ; and Mr. Arthur Thompson. 



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