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Lantana, Galium Mollugo, Fedia olitoria, Inula Conyza, Chlora 
perfoliata, Lysimachia nemorum Juniperus communis, Listera, 
ovata, Carex muricata, hirta glauca Scop. var aggregata Reich. 
Festuca myurus, Bromus erectus, Huds B. macrostachys, Gren 
and God. Polygala calcarea, F. Schultz, grows in abundance on 
the Lias hills above Fladbury. 
Polygala vulgaris occurs in the above locality in company with 
P. calcarea, but both retain their individual habit and mode of 
growth, &e., by which the plants are easily distinguished, inde- 
pendently of other specific characters. - 
On Wednesday, June 25th, the Warwickshire Naturalists’ and 
Archeologists’ Field Club met at Cheltenham. At twelve o’clock 
the members assembled at the Queen’s, and with several mem- 
bers of the Cheltenham Naturalists’ Association proceeded to 
Leckhampton hill. The section at the large quarry was first 
examined, where the upper Lias is seen in junction with the 
basement beds of the Inferior Oolite, showing, upwards, @ good 
section of the pisolite or peagrit and the shelly and bastard 
freestone. ‘The members then walked on to the western escarp- 
ment where the Oolite marl lying between the upper and lower 
freestones is exposed with a considerable extension of pisolite in 
that direction. Mr. Brodie here pointed out the interest and 
importance of this fine section, which he explained in detail, and 
alluded to the extensive Geological range of varied formations 
which the grand view from this point commands. Commencing 
with the Great Oolite in the more distant Cotswolds and Stones- 
field slate on the east, the eye traverses the vast Liassic plain 
below from the upper Lias, Marlstone and lower Lias to the New 
red sandstone at Wanlode Cliff, on the north west. The car- 
poniferous series of the Forest of Dean was visible in the distant 
