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bulbs alone, which are Mr. Exwes’s special hobby, numbered 
over 1000 species. Among those then in flower which were most 
admired were the lovely Californian Oalochorti and Cyclobothras, 
growing in great luxuriance, also the hardy Cypripediwms or 
Ladies Slippers, and other hardy terrestrial orchids, and pitcher- 
plants from North America. 
The collection of lilies (which forms the groundwork of the 
monograph of those plants which Mr. Eiwes is now engaged in 
publishing) is the most complete in the world; and though not 
yet in bloom, many pretty varieties were beginning to show 
their flowers. 
Some rare Himalayan and Alpine plants adorned the rockery, 
among which the miniature primrose from the north of Scotland 
(P. Scotica), the Highland azalea (A. procumbens), and the 
Cheddar pink (D. cesius), were of special interest to the 
botanists of the party. 
In the greenhouse were some remarkable Cape bulbs, including 
a hyacinth with a spike of large white flowers four feet high 
(H. candicans), the lovely Disa grandiflora, from Table Mountain, 
and the Brunsvigia towicana, used by the Bushmen in the pre- 
paration of their arrow-poison. 
Some curious little orchids of the genus Pleione were pointed 
out, which grow on the rhododendron trees up to an elevation of 
11,000 feet in Sikkim; also a plant of the Himalayan asparagus 
(Smilacina oleracea), the shoots of which furnished for some 
days almost the only sustenance of our greatest living botanist, 
Sir Josrrpn Hooxsr, during his travels in Sikkim. 
After dinner, at the King’s Head Hotel, Cirencester, the 
Rev. W. 8S. Symonps read a paper on the New Red Sandstone, 
which will appear in the published Transactions of the Club. 
The Third Field Meeting for the season was held on Tuesday, 
31st July, at 
NEWNHAM, 
where carriages awaited the arrival of the party, and a beautiful 
drive brought them to the section in the cutting near Flaxley, 
where the “Upper Ludlow” and ‘“ Wenlock Limestone” are 
