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us desired them, many plants, some of them choice and rare. There was the 

 EHophomm vaqinatum, the Montia fontana, the beach fern, Polypodium 

 phegopteris, and the rare green spleen-wort, Asplenium viride, which grows 

 on the Travertine of the Taren Esgob, above Capel-y-flin, in the Black moun- 

 tains. And from the rocks which form the romantic gorge of the Wye above 

 Builth— near Gwyn's seat — were several very interesting plants : the rare 

 English Stoneorop Sedum Anglicum, the variety of the Golden rod called 

 Solidago vigaurea Camhrica, the water dropwoit (Enanthe crocata, and the very 

 and interesting chive garliok Allium Schwnoprasum, which grows in great 

 abundance about those rocks, but in very few other places. 



The excellent dinner provided by mine host was not over, when the 

 business of the day was resumed by the exhibition of a very interesting 

 entomological specimen, sent by Dr. McCullough, of Abergavenny. It was 

 a large cluster of the female flies of the Athcrix ibis on a small branch of 

 the alder. "The females of this fly" says Dr. McCullough, " collect in clusters 

 on branches of trees overhanging streams. There they deposit their ova and 

 die. The larvre as soon as hatched drop into the water. This specimen was 

 found on the Monuow, near Pandy, on the 13th of June. Few of the ova now 

 remain. Last year I found at the same place a cluster nearly as large as a small 

 Bwarm of bees. A notice of this may be found in the Entomologist of August 

 or September last. These clusters seemed to have been observed on a few 

 occasions only." 



The President then said that the next meeting of the club would be an 

 extra meeting, when ladies would be admitted by special tickets. It was 

 fixed to take place on Thursday, July 18th, at the beautiful waterfall, the 

 Craig-y-pwU-du, between Boughrood and Erwood. It was hoped that the train 

 ■would put the club down and takft them up again at the place where the 

 stream enters the Wye, so that the ladies would not have to walk much more 

 than a mile. It would be necessary that this meeting should be a pic-nic meeting. 

 All must take their own provisions, inasmuch as it was impossible to get any- 

 thing near there. This plan had acted so exceedingly well at several archery 

 meetings lately that he did not see why it should not do so with the Woolhope 

 Club. It seemed to him that all they required to ensure a pleasant day was fine 

 ■weather. Time was up, and a general move for the railway station was made 

 at once. 



Before the train arrives that is to carry off the Club, let us attempt a 

 slight general description of the place. There is one question that invariably 

 occurs to all fresh arrivals as they first walk on the common, and " Where is 

 Llandrindod ?" was the question asked to-day, again and again. Why, here, 

 to be sure ! " But where is the town ?" There is no town ! " The village, then ?'> 

 There is no village ! " People must live somewhere ; where do they live ? Where 

 do visitors stay ?" In three hotels chiefly, each pretty closely concealed in its 

 own grounds — each at a distance from the other, and no two of them visible at 

 the same time. The Llanerch Hotel is nearest the station, a clean, rooomy, 



