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slippery rendering the search after plants rather difficult. 
Only two or three returned to the conveyance, the rest preferred 
to walk along Sand bay and joined the others at the Lodge gate 
on the Kewstoke road. A very indifferent dinner at the Pier 
Hotel terminated the day, and a stroll afterwards to the “raised 
beach” near Birnbeck Cove, in the midst of a grateful shower, 
served to illustrate the few notes that the Secretary gave after 
dinner on ‘raised beaches” in general, in connection with the 
oscillation in the level of the land on our Devonshire and 
Somersetshire coasts. The following list of plants gathered 
during tne day was furnished the Secretary by the botaiists, 
and are worthy of record :— 
Statice spatulata (Lloyd). (Sea lavender.) 
Convolvulus soldanella (L). 
*Marrubium vulgare (L). (White hore hound.) 
Crithmum maritimum. (Samphire.) 
Orobanche minor (occidentalis). (Broom rape.) 
Trifolium arvense 
Galium verwm. (Bedstraw.) 
Armeria maritima, (Sea pink.) 
* Apparently wild in a station far removed from houses. 
Mr. Braikenridge stated that he had during a botanical excursion 
in this vicinity 23 years ago found Rosa spinosissima, Ranunculus 
passiflorus and Lycopsis arvensis. 
Wookey Cavern and Ebbor Rocks.—The excursions were brought 
to a close on Tuesday, Oct. 6th, by a visit to Wookey Cavern 
and the Ebbor Rocks. Though the weather was by no means 
promising, yet the botanists and geologists were well represented, 
and a fair muster (13 in all) started by the 9.53 train for 
Bristol and the Cheddar Valley. Landed punctually at their 
destination, the members walked from the Wookey station 
through a picturesque ravine to the celebrated cavern ; here they 
were met by Mr. Hodgkinson, jun., and under his guidance 
threaded the intricacies of the interior. Some fears were 
expressed that the more advanced in age of the party would have 
