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found, and one extremely good leaf-shaped arrow-head was 

 picked up. Returning- from a most successful and interesting 

 ramble, full duty was done to the excellent tea provided, after 

 which Mr. Cobban, the local water engineer, handed to Mr. 

 Preston some further particulars of the recent boring for water, 

 which will appear in a subsequent issue. 



Miss S. C. Stow acted as botanical secretary as usual, and 

 reported 216 species and varieties. In so well worked a district 

 nothing new turned up, and some 'old familiar friends' were 

 not seen ; perhaps ' they are gone for ever.' Diplotaxis muralis, 

 Sisymbrium Sophia, and Linaria viscida were conspicuous on 

 the viaduct embankment. Viola palustris, Stellaria palustris, 

 Drosera rotundifolia only, Cnicus palustris and its variety flare 

 albo, Cnicus pratensis, extremely robust specimens of Crepis 

 virens, the flore roseo variety of Prunella, Potent ilia palustris , with 

 Epipactis palustris, Orchis macidata and its variety flore albo, 

 Eriophorum angusti folium, Scirpus setaceus, and Carex flava in 

 abundance, were taken in the viaduct delph on Brumby West 

 Common. The Liassic loamy roads or seolian sand supplied 

 Lychnis dioica, flore rosante, L. Githago, Sagina procunibeus ; 

 S. apetala, on wall tops at Frodingham ; Genista anglica, where 

 I first saw it just forty years ago, Asperula odorata, Arctium 

 majus, Ceutaurea Cyauus, Lithosper?num ojflcinale, Allium olera- 

 ceum, A ira caryophyllea, Deschampsia flexuosa, Poa nemoralis, 

 either very rare or always passed over, as is Agropyron cauiuum, 

 which was taken by Brumby Woodside. 



In Miss S. C. Stow's words :— The list of mosses contains 

 38 species, some of which are rather good ones. 



On walls in Frodingham village, Div. 2 :— 



" :: "Grimmia pulvinata Sm. *Bryum caespitosum L. 



*Tortula muralis Hedw. *Bryum argenteum L. 



Barbula unguiculata Hedw. 



On Brumby West Common, with marsh and moor ground by 

 the viaduct : — 



Sphag-num cymbifolium Ehr. Aulacomnium palustre, Schwgr. 



"""Sphagnum subsecundum Nees. 

 *Catherinea undulata W.&M. 

 *Po1ytrichum aloides Hedw. 

 "Polytrichum juniperinum Willd. 



Polytrichum formosum Hedw. 



Ceratodon purpureus Brid. 



Dicranella heteromalla Schp. 



Dicranum scopartum Hedw. 

 *Fissidens bryoides 

 *Funaria hygrometrica Sibth. 



Webera nutans Hedw. 

 "Brvum bimum Screb. 



Xew 10 X. Lines. 



"""Brvum eapillare L. 



*Mnium rostratum Schr. 

 Mnium undulatum L. 

 Braehytheeium albicans B.'& S 

 Brachytheeium rutabulum B.&S. 



*Braehvtheeinm vehninum B.& S. 



^Braehytheeium purum Dixon. 



iqo2 December i. 



