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about eighty years old ; they arc jjrobably otfslioots from the root of an ehn (now 

 cut down) which once grew outside the church. Mr. John Kyrle, the "Man of 

 Ross," a great benefactor to the town, and altogether an admirable man, was 

 buried in the Church in 1724, at the age of ninety. On the Church walls, tower, 

 and steeple, there grow Parktaria officinalis, Antirrhinum majus, Cheii-antkus 

 Cheiri, Asplenium Ruta-niuraria, and other plants. 



The two honorary officers of the Society before mentioned then met the 

 rest of the party at the Eoss station for Symonds Yat, where a boat was in readi- 

 ness to drop the whole party a mile down the deep and swift-flowing river. The 

 boat was large, but it had more than its full complement of passengers, so that 

 once or twice there seemed a considerable chance of the whole party getting cap- 

 sized into the river. On the return to Hereford one ancient veteran (who did not 

 accompany the party) had the temerity to say he wished the boat had been cap- 

 sized, because the account of it would then have read so well in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. Whatever might have been the fate of the chaplain, the honorary 

 historian would not have gone down, for swimming has long been one of his 

 principal "accomplishments." The Doward Hills are uncommonly rich in flower- 

 ing plants and ferns. Amongst plants seen may be mentioned Atropa Belladonna, 

 Dipsacus pilosus, Rubia pieirffrina (on which a new Sphaerella was discovered), 

 Cystopteris fragilis, Ceterach officinarum, Polupodium calcareum, Asplenium Tricho- 

 manes, Scolopendrium vulgare, and a large number of other plants of note, includ- 

 ing many stray plants of buckwheat. Amongst the more uncommon fungi found 

 were the rare, beautiful, and delicious Lactarius volemum; the first specimens being 

 found by Mrs. Bicknell. L. torminosus and L. deliciosus were also found : the 

 first is dangerously poisonous, and the latter sweet and edible ; as they grow (and 

 not unfrequently) together, the sharpest fungological eye cannot detect the slight- 

 est shade of difference either in size, form, or colour between one and the other. 

 Is this "mimicry?" Does "deliciosus" protect itself by taking the form, habit, 

 and colour of " torminosus V No doubt some protection is affordea to "deli- 

 ciosus," for some half-hearted would-be-fungus-eaters are afraid of getting a stray 

 "torminosus" into the pot. Agaricus incanus was found, with its powerful smell 

 of mice, the large edible A. strobilifonnis, the beautiful yellow-topped A. scjunct- 

 us, the cobalt-blue A. euchrous, the black A. fumosus, the handsome but bitter 

 pine-apple-scented A. acerbus, the chesnut-tinted A. Jlavo-brunneus, A. velutinus 

 (often mistaken for A. lacrymabundus, and both for the true mushroom), the 

 rare and extremely beautiful Agaricus chrysophceus, and many other Agarics " too 

 numerous to mention." Nyctalis asterophora, a plant rarely seen by Woolhopians, 

 was met with on the Doward Hills in some abundance, as was the very rare The- 

 lephora Sowerbci. The " Hercules Club " fungus, Olavaria pistiUaria, was found, 

 together with the smaller G. argillacea, and some immense specimens of the black 

 but edible Graterellus cornucopioides. 



On the Doward Hills there is (.SOO feet above the Wye) a hytena den. The 

 chaplain and historian were first at this den, which has afforded to the Rev. W. 

 S. Symonds a rich harvest of old bones belonging to the cave lion, the cave bear, 



