Repoji of Meetings /or 1 89 1 . Dy Dr J . Hardy. 287 



of England, and Butomus umbellatus ; and the Great Water 

 Dock, Rumex Hijdrolapathum, near the margin. 



The pillared stone placed near one of the ponds has been 

 removed from a group of memorial stones that had encircled a 

 tumulus on the Humlie Dodd hillock, near where Watling 

 Street runs a little behind West Bolam. where its companion 

 still stands, with a black basaltic Boulder from the Whin-sill, 

 bearing the name of the "Poind and his Man," or the "Mare 

 and Foal." The sandstones had been quarried from a sandstone 

 rock in the field at a short distance from the funeial mound. 

 That they were Druidical is merely imaginary. If there was 

 once a circle of stones, the present name must be recent. 



For three successive seasons the Tufted Duck Fuligula cristata, 

 a winter visitant, has bred among sedges and willows in a pond 

 near the house at Wallington (1858, -9, and -60.) (Mr John 

 Hancock's Catalogue of the Birds of Northd. and Durham, 

 p. 155.) 



The gardens, as Sir Charles Trevelyan said of them, " are 

 singularly unique and bpautiful " ; and every kind of fruit and 

 rare flowers is here reared to perfection. The walls are covered 

 with fruit trees, and the green and forcing houses are full of 

 bloom, and enriched with vegetable dainties ; and the outside 

 border decorations are varied and well- grown. Every "coign 

 of vantage" or crevice or wall-top shows its tufts of Asplenium 

 Rata muraria^ A. Adiantum nigrum or Scolopendrium vulgare ; 

 along with Erinus hispanicus, which being in rich bloom was 

 extremely pretty. The gardens lie sloping to the south, in a 

 specially favoured recess, where a backing of woodland protects 

 them from the wind. It was much to bo regretted that the 

 exigencies of time did not permit the Club to avail itself of Sir 

 George 0. Trevelyan's most kind invitation to perambulate the 

 woods and grounds, which would have well repaid a close 

 inspection. The timber trees in the park are of grand propor- 

 tions, and the age of most of them is ascertainable. The 

 dimensions of the more select of them have been commemorated 

 by Mr G. C. Atkinson, in the Nat. Hist. Trans, of Northumber- 

 land and Durham, vol. v., pp. 93, 94, 95, and 160. 



Among the rarer shrubs and plants at Wallington, the 

 following may be selected from Winch's and Tate and Baker's 

 Floras of Northd. and Durham, viz. Hahenaria alhida. field 



