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and also another beautiful and uncommon grass, Molinia Cicrulea, as well as 

 Epipactis latifolia (the broad-leaved helleborine). We then proceeded by Dry- 

 brook, Nailbridge and Brierly to the Speech House, finding on the way Hyosoya- 

 mus niger^ or Henbane, Erodium circutarium (Stork's bill), and many other inter- 

 esting plants, Trifolium filiforme (probably) amongst the number. In the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of the Speech House, and in our explorations after dinner, 

 we also observed Scutellaria galericulata and minor ; Hypericum elodes (marsh 

 St. John's wort) ; Narthecium ossifragiim, bog asphodel ; Anagallis tenella, bog 

 pimpernel ; Drosera rotundifolia, sundew ; Drosera longifolia, noted previously ; 

 Filago minima (lesser cudweed) ; Senecio crucifoUus (rag wort), The berries of 

 Viburnum opulus and mountain ash thickly ornamented the woods, and the 

 hedges were resplendent with those of the tamus, bryonia and solanum. Bidens 

 tripartita, the burr marigold ; the pretty little Neottia spiralis, or lady's tresses, 

 and the dwarf thistle. Carduus acaulis, were also seen ; also Colchicum autumnale 

 (the autumn crocus), Butomus umbellatus (the flowering rush), Alisma plantago, 

 water plantain, Pyrus aria, the white beam, &c., &c. 



The following ferns : Lastrea oreopteris, Lastrea filix mas, Lastrea spinulosa, 

 Lastrea dilatata, Lathyrium foemina var, convexum, Lathyrium foemina var. 

 incisum, Pteris aquilina, Asplenium adiantum nigrum, Asplenium ruta muraria, 

 Asplenium trichomanes, Scolopendrium vulgare, Ceterach officinarum, Blechnum 

 boreale, Polypodium vulgare, Polypodium dryopteris, Polypodium robertianum, 

 Polystichum aculeatum, Polystichum angulare, Equisetnm palnstre, Equise- 

 tum limosum, and Chara vulgaris. 



List of Funguses.— Cantharellns cibarius, Eussula rubra, fastens, viresoens, 

 and the edible Kussula heterophylla. Scleroderma verrucosa, Marasmius perona- 

 tus, Lactarins rufus, and subdulcis, and the large white acrid Lactarias piperatus, 

 and several varieties of Hygrophorua. 



The Annual Fungus Foray in October, was attended by so many distinguished 

 mycologists, and was so successful in the number and rarity of the Funguses 

 found and exhibitod, that the report of the proceedings published at the time will 

 be given in full as an Appendix, and I therefore pass it by. 



I regret, however, that I cannot close this address without alluding to the 

 death of one of our honorary members, a gentleman who filled the office of president 

 in the birth year of the Club, and who it was said, always took a warm interest in 

 Its proceedings ; I refer to our loss of Sir Frederick Murchison. You all know 

 how connected his name is with Herefordshire, through his geological work on 

 the Silurian system, which he conceived and so successfully carried out in this 



