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■feeen discovered by Mr. Scudamore growing in r. clover field at Llangarren, where 

 it is supposed to have been introduced with foreign seed. 



Our business at the Speech House had now ended, so the carriages were 

 ordered out and we drove through Coleford and Stanton to the foot of a hill on 

 the left side of the Monmouth road, in which the Buckstone is situated. 



This interesting object is a mass of conglomerate rook of an irregular pyra- 

 midal form, and rests at its apex on a slab of the same kind. It stands alone on 

 the hedge of a hanging wood, about 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. 



Its shape and position appears to be due to natural causes, and it very much 

 resembles the " Devil's Pulpit," a large mass of rock, I believe, of a similar 

 nature, which stands alone high up on the left bank of the Wye, about two milei 

 below Tintem. Below the Buckstone is a remarkable valley of denudation, 

 about a mile in width, which to all appearances has been formed in a mass of con- 

 glomerate, which once stretched from the Buckstone to the ridge of rock opposite 

 to it, on which stands the Kymin, Large masses of conglomerate either crop up 

 in the bottom of the valley or have been dropped there ages ago by the advancing 

 glacier. 



As the shades of evening were fast surrounding na we were obliged to leave the 

 Buckstone and to defer the contemplation of the magnificent views that are visible 

 from it to some other occasion, and so we rejoined thecaniages and wended our 

 way back to Koss through the busy town of Lydbrook, and by Bishop's-wood, 

 where we arrived just in time to meet the return train to Hereford. 



The oak and beach were the principal timber trees observed in the Forest 

 Some well formed sticks of which we met with on the unenclosed slopes near the 

 Speech House, they averaged 16 feet in girth. In the same neighbourhood we 

 saw some fine specimens of hoUy, many of which measured six feet, and are said 

 to stand on the oldest part of the Forest. 



The yew, the wych, and common elm were conspicuous by their absence, and 

 so were all those berry beaiing trees which we found so numerous in the woods 

 we visited at our Chepstow meeting, but very probably many of them may exist 

 in the enclosures, where every tree is allowed to grow until the ground be thrown 

 open, when the woodman's hatchet begins its work, and the sheep are turned in, 

 and so in a few years no trace of vegetation is remaining there but the timber 

 trees and the rank grass and fern which grows beneath them. 



The following is the botanical report of the day by Messrs. H. Southall and 

 B. M. Watkins, Koss, to which is added the names of the Fungi gathered by 

 different members, chiefly in the neighbourhood of the "Ponds :" — 



" Leaving Mitcheldean Road about 7 a.m., we entered the forest by the Lea 

 Bailey hill, and found growing on the slopes — Sclerochloa rigida, Aira prsecox 

 caryophyllea, and flexuosa, four rather elegant and rare grasses. After exploring 

 the boggy uplands near the Wigpool, and the old iron workings in the neighbour- 

 hood, where Gentiana amarella, the little autumnal gentian is pretty plentiful, 

 we next passed through an extensive enclosure, and there found the little milk- 

 wort Polygala depressa, two heaths, Erica tetralix and cinerea, the common ling, 



