The storm over, the way was taken direct for Mains Wood, a very 

 ihteresting and promising locality, with an abundance of whortleberry, Vac- 

 ciniummin-tilus, Calluna vulgaris, and the hard fern, Slecknum borealc. There 

 were many nests of the large wood ant, Formica fusca, observed, and owing to 

 the philosophical observation of one gentlemen, that if you disturbed them they 

 gave out the smell of formic acid ; they were stirred up pretty considerably, as 

 one after another made the experiment to his satisfaction. But the underwood 

 was wet, aaid the ground was wet, and so it came to pass that a rapid passage 

 was made through it to Putley Common. Here a small party of archreologists 

 made a detour to see Putley Church and its quaint old cross. The main body 

 led by Dr, Wood took the prescribed route for the Putley quarry, passing 

 close by a copse with a mistletoe-hazel — a rare occurrence and of high mystical 

 viitue. 



The quarry was of the ordinary sandstone, being quarried for the repair 

 of Little Marcle Church, and offered nothing so much worthy of interest as the 

 two men who were there with horses and cart to carry the stones away. Each 

 had lost an arm, the one the i-ight arm and the other the left. If the two 

 arms left between them wanted somewhat in instantaneous unanimity of direc- 

 tion, they certainly stretched further than an ordinary pair, and acted together 

 with a precision and effect which showed they were well accustomed to do so. 

 Leaving the quarry of the one-armed, a direct route was taken for Pixley 

 Chm-ch, and here the members of Malvern Club were observed coming along 

 the lane for the same point. A hearty greeting took place, for the appointed 

 trysting spot was a full hour distant both in time and in space. 



Pixley Church with its curious roodloft, " like an inverted canoe," as one 

 gentleman observed, was then visited, and the party soon set out for the Wall 

 Hills. The weather had now become bright and cheerful, and as the members 

 in pleasant converse form the straggling line to the camp, we will give the 

 names of the gentlemen representing the Malvern Club. They were the Rev. 

 AV^ S. Symonds, F.G.S., president of the club ; Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S., vice- 

 president ; the Rev. A. J. Douglass, Mathon, honorary secretary ; Captain 

 Serocold ; the Rev. J. H. Thompson ; Colonel Scott, The Eades ; E. J. Stone, 

 Esq., Chambers-court; Major Roberts; E. B. Fitton, Esq., Worcester; the 

 Rev. W. R. ViUiers, Torquay; Dr. J. Griffith Griffiths, hon. sec. to the 

 Worcester Field Club ; the Rev. J. T. Eld, Worcester ; the Rev. W. Calvert, 

 Kentish Town; J. EdgeU, Esq., Tewkesbury; the Rev. H. Steward; the Rev. 

 R. Robeson, Forthampton; J. Greaves, Esq., Malvern; G. H. Piper, Esq., 

 Malvern ; W. H. Pritchard, Esq. ; Captain Roberts, R.A. ; ^Ir, Gassion, for 

 merly a member of the Newcastle Club, Blalvern ; and Mr. Morris, of Malvern. 



In an orchard near Pixley the Narcissus hiflorus was observed, and on 

 Wall Hills the Iris fietidissima, the Bluimnus catharticus, and some fine young 

 specimens of Equisetum TebiuUcja were gathered. The walk from the brow of 

 the fii'st hill along a dingle leading to the camp was especially pleasant, and 

 the beauty of the fresh foliage in the smishine and shade most agreeable. The 



