Proceedings. CXXXi 
Hayes and West Wickham Commons, 321; Keston Common, 265; 
Duppas Hill, 69; Worms Heath, 43. 
A preliminary report on the flora of Hayes Common was read by 
Dr. Parsons at the general meeting of the Society on Tuesday, 
Nov. 18th, 1902, at which meeting a paper was also read by the same 
author, “On the Flora of the Eastern Border of Dartmoor” (see 
Trans., Articles 6 and 7). 
Among the general excursions of the Society, those which possessed 
especial botanical interest were the following :— 
June 26th (Thursday, Coronation Day). All-day excursion to Ash- 
down Forest. Conductor, Mr. J. Edmund Clark, B.A., B.Sc. 
July 12th (Saturday). Caterham, Haliloo Valley, and Worms 
Heath. Conductor, Mr. H. T. Mennell, F.L.S. 
‘Sept. 13th (Saturday). Fungus foray. Limpsfield and Squerries 
Park, Westerham. Conductors, Dr. H. Franklin Parsons and Mr. G. 
W. Moore. 
Botanical Excursion on July 12th to Caterham, Haliloo Valley, 
Warlingham. (Leader, Henry T. Mennett, F.L.S.)—The party of 
seventeen detrained at Caterham, and walked by the road across the 
fields to Haliloo Valley. In the woods above the valley the large 
helleborine (Cephalanthera grandiflora) was gathered. The bee 
orchis (Ophrys apifera) was abundant on the banks below the wood, 
though somewhat past its best: no other orchises were observed. The 
small bushes of sweet briar in full bloom were numerous, and the 
special rarity of the valley, Lathyrus hirsutus, was gathered in 
beautiful condition. Another Surrey rarity, Phytewma orbiculare, 
_ was found in some plenty. Other plants gathered were Hypericum 
_ hirsutum and perforatwm, Echium vulgare, Calamintha Acinos. 
; Tea was provided at Warlingham, after which most of the party 
returned to Croydon by train. Two members walked back to Croydon 
by way of Farleigh Green, where Veronica longifolia was found 
growing on the margin of a small enclosed pond in full bloom. It is 
of course not a British plant, but seemed well established. The well- 
known locality of the Surrey rarity, Tewcriwm Botrys, was visited. 
The plant was found in great profusion. Mr. Mennell, who has known 
the locality well since its first discovery by Mr. John Flower, has never 
seen it in such plenty. An interesting rose of the Rwbiginosa (sweet 
iar) section, named by Mr. A. Bennett Rosa micrantha variety 
‘Aystriz, was also found in the hedge in the same field. 
_ The last excursion of the season was the annual fungus hunt, which 
took place on Sept. 13th under the leadership of Dr. Parsons and Mr. 
G. W. Moore. The day was very fine though cold, and there was a 
good attendance. The route taken was a very picturesque one—from 
Oxted station by Limpsfield, across Limpsfield and Chart Commons, 
and through Chart Woods and Squerries Park to Westerham, return- 
ng thence in conveyances. Permission to visit Squerries Park had 
been kindly given by Col. Warde. Owing to the cool, rainy season, 
vegetation still retained its full verdure, and there was little sign of 
autumn in the landscape. For the same reason the woodland kinds of 
fungi were plentiful compared with what they have been in the dry 
Seasons experienced during several past years, though the species 
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