CHESIL BEACH AND FLEET MEETING. Ixvii. 



After Mr. HORACE W. MONCKTON, past President of the 

 Geologists' Association, had spoken, the members and their 

 friends embarked from an improvised jetty in boats provided by 

 fishermen and coastguardsmen, and were ferried over the Fleet 

 in them to the Chesil Beach. Here lunch was taken, after 

 which Mr. W. BOWLES BARRETT read a paper on "The 

 Flora of the Chesil Bank and Fleet," which will be printed in 

 full. 



On the conclusion of the paper, the PRESIDENT observed that 

 this was a part of the coast little known, and they had reason to 

 congratulate themselves on having Mr. Bowles Barrett with 

 them to tell them all that he had told. The Club held a 

 meeting there 17 years ago, crossing over at a point further 

 down the Fleet, and on that occasion their first President, the 

 late Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, told them about the plants. 

 Chara alopecuroides was called in the report of their then 

 " Proceedings " Lamproihamnus alopecuroides. Mr. Barrett was 

 the original discoverer of it here in 1889, and concluded that it 

 must grow in the Fleet. He and Mr. Richardson accompanied 

 Mr. Mansel-Pleydell when he went to the Swannery to try to 

 re-discover it. They fished about for several hours and found 

 absolutely nothing, except common weeds ; but at last by good 

 fortune they hit upon that beautiful little foxtail Chara ; and 

 then they found it growing in patches in large quantities right 

 up at that end of the Fleet. He had a vivid remembrance of 

 Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's extreme delight at the success which 

 attended their search. 



The party then made their way towards the spot from which 

 they were to cross to Herbyleigh, botanizing by the way, the 

 prize falling to the lot of the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, who 

 secured a specimen of Limonium occidentale a plant which has 

 not been recorded as found on the beach since 1876. 



After re-crossing the water Mr. C. E. A. GEORGE, at the 

 invitation of the President, addressing the members, gave an 

 account of the Fleet, and especially of the tides which rise and 

 fall in it. 



