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nizing. Saturday the 9th was little better, but we then lost all pa- 

 tience, defied the weather, and sallied forth for the purpose of explor- 

 ing Leigh woods. On the banks of the Avon, near Rownham, Trifo- 

 liura fragiferum was in flower and fruit abundantly. We likewise met 

 with Cochlearia anglica, Plantago maritima, Scirpus niaritimus, Apium 

 graveolens, &c. It was desperately wet in the woods, and after a suc- 

 cession of shower-baths from above, and drenchings from around and 

 below, we were glad to retreat, in possession, however, of luxuriantly 

 beautiful Cystopteris fragilis, Polypodium vulgare (eighteen inches 

 long), Asplenium Trichomanes, Quercus sessiliflora, Pyrus Aria in 

 green fruit, Tilia parvifolia, Acer campestre in green fruit, &,c. 



Tuesday the 12th was brilliantly fine, and being the last day of my 

 stay at Bristol, it was spent in part upon St. Vincent's Rocks; but the 

 fatigue of a boisterous voyage to South Wales the previous day had 

 quite unnerved me, and I was only tempted to summon up my remam- 

 ing strength by the prospect of obtaining Orobanche barbata, Veronica 

 hybrida, Rubia peregrina, Ceutaurea Scabiosa, Petroselinum sativum, 

 Bromus diandrus, &c. ; with regard to all which, and many others of 

 no less interest, I perfectly succeeded. And thus ended my week's 

 botanizing at Bristol. Leo. H. Grindon. 



Manchester, March 13, 1843. 



Art. CXXXVIII. — Plants observed in the neighbourhood of Ludlow, 

 Shropshire. By Frederick Westcott, Esq., A.L.S., &c. 



Spring St., Edgbaston, December 3, 1842. 

 Sir, 

 I send you an enumeration of plants which I gathered or ob- 

 served during a short stay at Ludlow in October last. I regret that I 

 was too late for the grasses, Carices and Orchideae, and had no means 

 of ascertaining the Fungi, which appear to be numerous : all these 

 deficiencies I hope to supply next summer, when it is probable I may 

 revisit the neighbourhood. 



I send the list, not because it will be found to contain any very re- 

 markable plants, but in the hope that persons in the neighbourhood 

 may be induced to pay more attention to the Botany of their district ; 

 for I have no doubt that many interesting discoveries may be made 

 there, especially among the mosses, the lichens and the Fungi. The 

 Clee Hills, more particularly, would be found a rich locality. 



