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could be seen. On Worms Heath there are some old irregular 

 conical pits, marked in the Orduance Map as an ancient camp, 

 but which resemble old excavations for gravel rather than mili- 

 tary earthworks. Descending into the valley by a steep slope, 

 and through a field of rye which overtopped their heads, the 

 party returned by Halleloo Farm to Upper Warlingham, where 

 tea had kindly been provided for them by Mr. and Mrs. Good- 

 man. Among the botanical finds of the day were the bee-orchis, 

 the grass-leaved vetch (Lathijrus Nissolia), the white mullein 

 {Verbascum Lychnitis), Cephalantheragrandiflora, &c. 



On July 21st a half -day excursion, photographic and general, 

 had been arranged to Hayes and Keston Common, but your 

 President was the only member who attended, and his proceed- 

 ings hardly need to be chronicled. Several interesting plants, 

 as the arrow-head, the sundew, butterwort, and bog asphodel, 

 Cardials ^j?"rtte?isis, Verbascum Lychnitis, Scirpus fluitans, and 

 Geranium lucidum, were seen on Keston Common. 



On Bank Holiday, Aug. 6th, a whole-day excursion was made 

 to Haslemere and Hindhead, and there was a fair attendance, 

 especially considering the long railway journey, and the un- 

 promising weather in the early part of the day. Fortunately, 

 however, a dull damp morning was followed by a brilliantly fine 

 afternoon. On arriving at Haslemere, a little after 11, the 

 party, under the guidance of Mr. Mennell, jun., after stopping to 

 look at the picturesque little church, and Mr. T. P. Newman's 

 alpine garden, well stocked with hardy perennials and rock- 

 plants, proceeded to Hindhead up the wooded spur called Hurt- 

 hill Copse, probably from the abundance of whortleberries or 

 " hurts " which grow there. In these woods was found the rare 

 and curious fungus, Cynophallus caninus, so called from its 

 remarkable resemblance to the penis of a dog ; it lacks, however, 

 the foetid odour so characteristic of its commoner ally. Phallus 

 impudictis. Hindhead is a lofty hill, or range of hills, 895 ft. in 

 altitude at its height-point, on the western border of Surrey ad- 

 joining Hampshire. It is formed, like Leith Hill, Tilburstow 

 Hill, and the other hills of the range which immediately borders 

 upon the Weald, by the outcrop of the hard Hythe beds of the 

 Lower Greensaud. At this point, however, the outcrop of these 

 beds bends southward to form the western boundary of the 

 Weald ; so that the strike is N. and S., and the dip westerly. In 

 consequence the range, unlike most others in England, has a 

 steep escarpment on the east and a more gradual dip to the west. 

 On the highest point of the hill a memorial stone, inscribed with 

 appropriate sentences, marks the site of the gibbet on which in 

 former days highwaymen expiated their crimes. Immediately to 

 the north of this is the " Devil's Punch-bowl," a deep semi- 

 circular amphitheatre-like hollow, the upper end of a steep valley 



