On the Ci'll-grovth of Plants, dx. By Mr. Enys, of Enys. 



Notice of a Barroiv with Kist-vaen, on Trewavas Head. By Mr. 

 J. T. Blight, F.S.A. 



On " Jews in Cornwall." By the Rev. Dr. Bannister. 



Mr. Rogers exhibited some of the silver ornaments and other 

 articles mentioned in his Paper as having been found vnth Saxon 

 Coins, at Trewhiddle, near St. Austell, in 1774. They comprised 

 fragments of a silver chalice-shaped cup ; a " disciplinarium," con- 

 sisting mainly of a silver cord terminated in four knobbed lashes 

 like a scourge, as used by Friars Disciplinant for self-flagellation, 

 especially on Ash- Wednesdays ; a penannular brooch ; the tip of a 

 belt ; buckles ; richly chased bands, supposed to have been brace- 

 lets ; and a long curved jjin, the head curiously fashioned with 

 fourteen facets chased in ornamental patterns and partly nielloed. 

 Mr. Rogers also exhibited part of some ancient Pump-G-ear found 

 in Trevenen Mine, in AVendron, in a level (the 137 fathom) which 

 had not been worked for at least 100 years. 



The President remarked that the " disciplinarium " was an 

 instrument with which persons in modern times were not familiar ; 

 but, doubtless, all would remember the conscientious manner in 

 Avhich Don Quixote inflicted self-flagellation, and the ingenuity 

 with Avhich his Squire transferred to the trunk of a tree the blows 

 which he ought to have inflicted on himself 



Flint Flakes. Mr. Blight having stated in his Paper, that 

 he found on the north-west side of the Barrow, numerous broken 

 flints, which were possibly mere refuse drippings struck off" in the 

 course of manufacture. Dr. Barham repeated the opinion which 

 he had expressed at a previous meeting of this Institution — that 

 the flints which he saw at Scilly were of natural and not artificial 

 formation ; and he felt assured that Mr. Blight, were he to ex- 

 amine them, would be of the same opinion. The fact that such 

 flints had been found in places where persons had been interred, 

 might to some extent account for the impression that they were 

 used as weapons of off"ence and defence. He was convinced, how- 

 ever, that it would be impossible to account for the large quantity 

 of flints which he saw in Scilly on the sujjposition that they were 

 of artificial formation. (Dr. Barham exhibited some flints which 

 he had found at Scilly, and also some which had been obtained 

 from a cromlech on one of those islands). 



Dr. Jago said, the fact that large quantities of unshaped 

 flints had been found in certain localities did not prove that other 



