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As the party had some distance to walk, the botanists had an 
opportunity to look for flowers, and it may be mentioned that Orchts 
morto was found growing in abundance. Some fine plants of hemlock 
were also admired, and S/e//aria holostea brightened the hedgerows 
with its white Blossoms. Mr S. J. Coley was fortunate enough 
to find a rare flower, namely, Mazchia erecta, belonging to the chick- 
weed family. [thas been recorded before in the county, but not 
more than once or twice. It was last found at Keynsham, near Bath. 
After lunch, at the George Hotel, Newent, Mr H. G. Chance 
submitted a Roman coin which he had recently found in his garden 
at Barnwood, near Gloucester, to the inspection of the Members, and 
it was generally admitted that it was a fine specimen." 
After lunch, the party drove to Clifford’s Mesne, passing on the 
way the old workings for coal at Great Boulsdon. 
Arrived at the Mesne, the Members at once proceeded to study 
the geology. In a large quarry, at the base were seen the Ludlow 
rocks. Then come three or four feet of a shaly kind of sandstone, 
succeeded by the massive Downton-Castle Building-Sandstones. 
Here, from the Downton Sandstones, as when the Club visited the 
locality twenty years before, the Members procured many plant- 
remains, including the seed called by Hooker, Pachytheca spherica. 
In the next quarry the top of the Sandstones was seen, and the 
over-lying deep-red Old-Red marls, which have been worked in the 
past for brick-making. 
An ascent of May Hill was made, but the view was not so satis- 
factory as could have been desired, and after a short stay on the 
summit, the Members descended and rejoined the carriages, arriving 
in time to catch the 4.43 p.m. train to Gloucester. 
HALF-DAY EXCURSION TO FRETHERNE 
SATURDAY, June Ist, 1907 
Directors: T. S. ELLIs and L. RICHARDSON 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON) 
The following attended the excursion: Mr W. R. Carles, C.M.G., 
F.L.S. (President), Rev. H. H. Winwood, F.G.S., and Mr Charles 
Upton ( Vice- Presidents), Mr L. Richardson (fon. Secretary), Dr A. M. 
McAldowie, F.R.S.E., Lieut.-Col. J. C. Duke, Surg.-Major I. Newton, 
Messrs A. Cockshott, G. M. Currie, T. S. Ellis, G. Embrey, F.C.S., 
O. H. Fowler, J. N. Hobbs, F. Hannam-Clark, K. Lupton, J. G. 
Phillips, J. W. Skinner. Vincent A. Smith, and A. J. Stephens. 
The party drove from Gloucester—a distance of about eleven 
miles. 
1 See pages 127-128. 
