98 Proceediiifift. 



Three or four large fields had been carefully looked over, 

 as far as we could see from the footpaths, and still no Lathy- 

 rus appeared. The time was approaching when we must 

 necessarily turn back to catch our train, when we were over- 

 joyed at seeing, quite close to the footpath, a beautiful 

 climbing plant of the great prize, the Tuberous Pea. It was 

 just coming into flower, and had carefully wound itself round 

 many of the stems of the wheat, just after the manner of a 

 Convolvulus. 



A little further on, in another field, it occurred quite 

 plentifully, and close by were several very luxuriant specimens 

 trailing over a low hedge, and making it quite gay with its 

 flowers, — a beautiful pink colour, tinged with crimson. We 

 could now gather as many specimens of it as we desired, and 

 feeling well satisfied with our good fortune we turned back 

 for Ongar. 



A rather uncommon Bedstraw, Galium, tricorne, occurred 

 in the cornfields round Fyfield, its peculiar granular fruit on 

 reflexed stalks distinguishing it from other species. 



By the roadside, on our return to the station, a specimen 

 of a very curious plant was gathered. It had the pale blue 

 flowers of a Forget-me-not, but the stem, hard and woody, was 

 that of a Lithnspermum . This peculiar plant afterwards proved 

 to be a casual Echinospermum lappula, but how it got to be 

 growing by the roadside, far from cultivation, was a mystery ; 

 for it had all the appearance of an undoubted native. 



He showed specimens of most of the plants named in the 

 paper. 



Evening Meeting. — December 16th, 1892. 

 The following presentations were made :--' Contributions 

 toward a Flora of Caithness, No. 2,' by Mr. A. Bennett, a re- 

 print ; presented by the Author. ' Part of a Flora of North 

 Yorkshire ' by J. Gilbert Baker ; presented by the Yorkshire 

 Naturahsts' Union. North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field 



