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leads, and thence through a North window on to the flooring. 
All the wonderful details in the delineation of the twelve per- 
secutors on the North side, and the twelve Martyrs, Virgins or 
Confessors on the South, can be studied admirably. The figures 
are most striking, the colouring of their garments and the various 
accessories beautiful, their faces most expressive, and the demons, 
with their red flames, truly hideous. It remained now but to 
thank Mr. Carbonell for his instructive guidance, to wish him 
every success in obtaining the last few hundred pounds which he 
requires to thoroughly finish his work of preservation of window 
and timbered roof, to lunch and drive back to Cirencester. Rain 
kept off until the Museum, where the records of ancient Corinium 
are stored up, received the members, where they spent the time 
that remained before leaving by the 4 p.m. train, in looking over 
the fine tesselated Roman Pavements, Samian ware and altars, 
puzzled over the inscriptions, and read probably the earliest 
squared words in existence, scratched on a Roman fragment of 
painted stucco. (Vide Proc., Vol. 2, p. 133, 1869). 
Another pleasant day was spent on July 15th, when, at the 
invitation of their newly elected Vice-President, the members, 
to the number of 18, some by train, others on foot, visited the 
well known Botanical Garden at Bitton. After a cordial greeting 
on their arrival, Canon Ellacombe pointed out the various plants 
and shrubs not usually met with in an ordinary garden, e9., 
Rubus Australis, from the Auckland Isles, one of the most southern 
plants grown; Cotoneaster horizontalis from the Himalayas; the 
China palm, which had been out the whole winter, and the 
Brugmansia which was hardy; the creeping Savin (Juniperus), 
odoriferous after rain; the Shumach, which was cut down every 
year ; the Californian bay ; the Labrador tea plant ; the Paliwrus 
aculeatus, or Christ’s thorn, so celebrated in legendary story ; the 
Japanese hay—thorn and groundsel ; holly (ilex cornuta); North 
American vine ; broom from Etna; Paulonia imperialis, cut down 
every year; many varieties of box; Funkia; South American 
