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Otiorhynchus tenebricosus, i male Drilus Jlavescens, several 

 Rhynchites cequatus, 20 Telephorus fuscicornis, 5 Dascillus cer- 

 villus, I Apion poinoncB, and a lot of commoner species." 



Mr. Tugwell communicated notes of a botanical ramble 

 from Leatherhead, over Mickleham Downs, to Dorking, illus- 

 trating his remarks by examples of the plants collected, and 

 referring to the larvae of the Lepidoptera which were to be 

 found feeding upon them. Mr. Tugwell said : — 



" To attempt to treat the science of botany in one short 

 paper would be simply impossible, but it appeared to me that 

 a practical lesson might be imparted by taking a ramble the 

 day before the meeting, collecting all the characteristic plants 

 of the district to exhibit, and naming them, making such short 

 remarks on each species as would tend to make them of some 

 interest to our members. With that object in view, I yester- 

 day took a botanical ramble from Leatherhead to Mickleham 

 over the Downs to the top of Headley Lane, and thence on 

 to Burford Bridge. In this walk I filled a large vasculum 

 with about 100 species of plants. Of course, many of them 

 were common, intentionally so ; still, a few were really rare 

 British plants. In this summary it is not intended to give 

 anything like a complete list of the plants exhibited, as a 

 mere list of names would be of no interest unless illustrated 

 by the specimens. The only plant of note found in the valley 

 of the Mole was the rare and local Cynoglossiim niontanuni, 

 'Ld.m., =-sylvaticum, Hawk. An old wall produced Parietaria 

 diffusa, Koch., Hieraciiim pilosella, L., and Saxifraga tri- 

 dactylites, L. Under the beech trees on Mickleham Downs, 

 Cephalanthera grandijlora, Bab., was plentiful, and after a 

 long search I managed to find a few of the much rarer 

 species, C. ensifolia, Rich. Fifty years previously I had 

 gathered this species abundantly there ; but the trees had 

 now grown up so as to almost destroy the locality for it. 

 Cynoglossum officinale, L., with its lurid red head of flowers 

 was common ; whilst great beds oi Epilobium angustifolium, 

 L., gave promise of beautiful spikes of bright blossom in the 

 near future. Ym& '^X^xi'i's, oi Atropa belladonna, 'L., Helleborus 

 fcEtidus, L., and Daphne lanreola, L., were dotted about pretty 

 freely. 



"The open part of the Downs was a perfect blaze of 

 bloom, masses of the golden Helianthemimi vulgare, Gaert., 

 Veronica chamcBdrys, L., Viola hirta, L., and Polygala 

 vulgaris, L., in endless variation of colour, with the beautiful 

 foliage of Spircea filipendida, L., and Poterium sanguisorba, 

 L., formed together a most charming picture, surrounded 



