no PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1913 



Watson, Lieut.-Col. J. C. Duke, Messrs Charles Bailey, F.L.S., F. H. Brether- 

 ton, C. G. Clutterbuck, F.E.S., J. M. Collett, F.C.S., A. J. CuUis, F. J. Cullis, 

 F.G.S., G. M. Currie, J. S. Daniels, T. S. Ellis, O. H. Fowler, J. N. Hobbs, 

 H. Knowles, F. Hannam-Clark, E. P. Little, E. Lawrence, A. S. Montgomrey, 

 W. J. Stanton, A. J. Stephens, and W. Thompson. 



Assembling at Llanthony Bridge at 2 p.m., the Members were welcomed 

 on board the launch Sabrina, the property of the Sharpness Docks and Canal 

 Company, by Mr A. J. Cullis, their engineer, and Mr J. H. Jones, the Vice- 

 Chairman of the Company. The run to " The Junction " was made without 

 a stop, the time being occupied in conversation and noting such flowers as 

 Genista tinctoria (Dyer's Greenweed) and Melilotus officinalis (Yellow Melilot), 

 which are rather abundant by this waterway. [W.T.] 



Between the end of the straight length of the Canal near Quedgeley 

 Court an.d the portion half-a-mile to the west of Hardwicke Court, the water- 

 way is for the most part in cuttings in the Lower Lias. 



When the tow-path immediately to the north of Upper Rea or Sym's 

 Bridge was lowered, pieces of Ammonites (Arietites) turneri Wr. pars non Sow., 

 were found (L.R.) which showed that the clay from which they came was of 

 turneri hemera. 



Between Sym's and Lower Rea Bridge two beds of limestone floor 

 the edge of the tow-path. They contain Gryphcea arcuata (Lam.), Rhyn- 

 chonella sp., Lima gigantea (Sow.), etc. The clay immediately below them is 

 very fossiliferous. containing Ammonites (Artiioceras) miserabilis Quenstedt, ' 

 Amm. (Agassizoceras) sauzeanns [d'Orb.), Gryphcsa arcuata (Lam.), Lima, 

 Pecten (Chlamys), Nuculana, Rhynchonella, Spiriferina, etc. [L.R.] 



At " The Junction " the party disembarked, and, led by the President, 

 walked along the tow-path of the Stroud water Canal to the Severn. Mr C. 

 Granville Clutterbuck found en route the tortricid moth. Epihlema (Ephippi- 

 phora) turbidana Tr. The specimen has since been submitted to Mr E. Mey- 

 rick, F.E.S., who has confirmed the identification. This moth has not been 

 previously recorded from the County. 



The River Frome, just completing its course, runs parallel with the last 

 bit of the Stroudwater Canal, and growing between the fast-flowing stream 

 and the stagnant waterway is a large quantity of Hemlock {Conium mactt- 

 latum). There was no mistaking the red stems and finely-cut leaves. Indeed, 

 the whole habit of the plant is distinct. The canal-bank bears Comfrey 

 (Symphytum officinale), white and purple in abundance, and on the surface 

 of the water rest the showy Nymphoea lutea (Yellow Water Lily), and the 

 leaves of Sagittaria sagittifolia (Arrowhead). The flowers of the latter have 

 yet to appear. The yellow water lily throws off an odour resembling brandy, 

 and in some places is called the brandy bottle. The Turks are said to pre- 

 pare a cooling drink from the flower, but it is questionable whether the con- 

 firmed drinker of cognac would be inclined to abandon his favourite 

 " tipple " for the Turkish brew. Other flowers noted were J uncus effusus 

 (Soft Rush), Acorus Calamus {Sweet Sedge) Ranunculus circinatus, Scutellaria 

 galericulata (Greater Skullcap) Rumex Hydrolapathum (Great Water Dock), 

 and Lepidium Draba (Pepperwort) The last named is not a native of Britain, 

 but was brought over from Flanders at the close of the Walcheren Expedi- 

 tion in the bedding used by the troops. Owing to the Plague, the bedding 

 had to be destroyed, but the Pepperwort managed to seed, and now is widely 

 distributed. Among other places it is to be found on the canal bank near 

 Hempsted, in Tuffley Avenue, and between " The Junction " and the 

 Severn. One of the first places where it established itself after it first put in 



I. Specimens of Ammonites miserabilis have also been found (by L.R. in 1903) in the old 

 disused clay-pit at Lower Rea, which has now (1913) been abandoned some 23 to 30 years. 



