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A few weeks ago, I picked, in company with the same botanist, Campylopus 

 paradoxus, Wils., and Splachnum sphccricum, L. fil., on the Monmouthshire hills 

 in the neighbourhood of Abergavenny. Both these discoveries extend the 

 geographical range of their respective species a good distance to the southward 

 in Britain ; that is from Lancashire and North Wales to the extreme south-west 

 of the Severn Province of the Cijhek Britannica. It is quite within the range of 

 probability that both of these may occur on the Llanthony Hills, within the range 

 of the Herefordshire Flora. 



It only remains for me to thank you for a patient listening ; and to trust 

 that I have said sufficient to show that there is still much to interest, and much to 

 learn, in the Bryology of our delightful county ; riches still unworked in the rich 

 hills and dales of Herefordshire ; waiting only for a single hearted love of these 

 simple treasures, to disclose themselves. 



" Thou gavest me wide Nature for a Kingdom 

 And power to feel it, to enjoy it. Not 

 Cold gaze of wonder gav'st Thou me alone. 

 But even into her bosom's depth to look, 

 As it might be the bosom of a friend. 

 The grand array of living things Thou madest 

 To pass before me ; mad'st me know my brothers, 

 In silent wood, in streamlet, and in hill." 



