220 REVIEW. [July, 



William Matthews, Esq., A.M., F.G.S., Hon. Secretary. Dr. 

 Grindrod then exhibited his unique collection of Silurian fossils. 



The botanists detected the rare Burnet [Poterium murica- 

 tum) and then made a traverse to Brockhill Wood, whose tangled 

 mazes it was found difficult to emerge from, and here some of the 

 heavier- weighted naturalists were " thrown out.^' Those who were 

 enabled to break through the briars soon found themselves in the 

 romantic Purlieu Lane, a place of double interest, botanical and 

 geological, and while a select few ferreted out the habitat of the 

 rare Gagea lutea, others were fishing specimens of Batrachosper- 

 mum out of the brook. 



Several new members were elected, viz. the Kev. W. Lister 

 Isaac, Pirton Rectory ; George Dawson, Esq., Birmingham ; 

 Mr. Jacob Gill, Cradley; etc. 



The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser, for Saturdtnj, 

 May the U th, 1861. 



The readers of the Chronicle are again (see 'Phytologist,' vol. v. 

 1861, p. 155) treated to another instalment of the botanical, anti- 

 quarian, and historical ' Rambles by the Ribble.^ and this portion 

 of the series is entitled, ' Ingleborough, Geerstoues, Ribblehead, 

 Ingleborough Cave,' etc., and it is just as chatty and pleasant as 

 the previous papers on the same subject ; and this is high praise. 



The botanical discoveries were not numerous, many plants 

 were not to be expected in a very ungenial spring like the last — 

 probably worse. The party were fain to cower under rocks 

 and dry stone dikes and cairns, to shelter themselves from the 

 merciless storms of hail and sleety rain, which prevail more or 

 less in these parts till St. Baruaby's day, June 11th. Three 

 kinds of Club- Moss were all the rewards they obtained in the 

 field of botanical acquisitions. Few of our readers need to be told 

 what they were, for they are no rarities on the Yorkshire hills. 



"A contented mind is a continual feast;" a truth which is 

 amply established by these ardent plant- and cave-hunters ; and 

 they exercise the rare gift of making the most of everything, 

 both plants and space. The top of Ingleborough, or Foalfoot, as 



