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1946 and the water-level was normal by the late summer. In t le 
autumn of 1946 the i)ond was “ weeded ” by the use of two boats con- 
nected with a drag chain. 
A short account of the excursion appeared in the Farnham Rerala 
for the 6th June. 
AV. E. Wakben. 
JUNE 6-9. MARLBOROUGH DOWNS AND DISTRICT. 
Leader: Mr J. D. Ghose. 
A total of 44 persons attended this excursion, 29 of whom were 
B.E.C. members and the remainder members of the Wiltshire N.H.S. 
and friends. The attempt at co-operation with the local N.H.S. proved 
to be a successful venture. B.E.C. members who participated in the 
excursion were; Mrs Barnes, Mrs Boyd-Matt, Miss Campbell, Lt.-Col. 
Congreve, Mrs Davies, Miss Duncan, Mrs Earquharson, Mrs Croker Fox, 
Miss Frowde, Mrs Garratt, Comdr. Graham, Mr Gurney, Mrs Hassall, 
Mr Holland, Dr Hughes, Miss Isaac, Mrs Partridge, Mrs. Richards, Mr 
Sandwith, Mrs Hylton Stewart, Miss Stevenson, Miss Swaine, Miss 
AGvian, Hon. IMrs AValdy, Mrs Welch, Miss Mothered, Miss AVickham 
and Mr AA'^ilmott 
Feiday, June 6. 
After a shoi't informal discussion at the Castle and Ball Hotel, Marl- 
borough, a visit was made to Marlborough College under the guidance of 
Messrs Halliday and Peirson. Selected sheets of the AA'edgwood Her- 
barium were displayed and exhibits at the College Natural History 
Museum inspected. 
Saturday, Juiste 7. 
In beautiful weather the party left Marlborough at 10 a.m. and 
proceeded to Knoll Down, near Avebury. Here a typical chalk down 
flora was studied. Among the plants noted were: Polygala- calcarea, 
P. oxyptera and Orchis ustuUita. Next a short stop was made at AA'het- 
ham AA^oods, near Caine, where Chrysospleniu-vi alt ern-i folium- was seen 
in abundance. At Spye Park several local members were waiting for 
the main party, one of whom had already found Carex strigosa — a plant 
for which special search was to have been made. Spye Park is a large 
unspoiled estate with semi-natural woodland, a few small bogs and 
gravelly heath. Potentilla pohistris, a doubtful notice of which requires 
confirmation, could not be found. Viola pcdustris was abundant; it is 
not known elsewhere in North Wilts. Air Sandwith rediscovered Carex 
laevigata which was recorded for the Park by C. E. Broome in 1843. In 
a meadow on the borders of the Park was a large colony of Orchis erice- 
toru.m in the midst of which grew a single specimen of 0. Fuchsii. 
After a picnic lunch, the party proceeded to Prickmoor Wood. The 
temi)orary leader (who shall be unnamed) discovered that it was far 
easier to take a procession of a dozen tail-to-tip cars into a narrow cul- 
de-sac than to extricate them afterwards. At Prickmoor AA'ood grew 
Polygonum- Bistorta, Scirpus sylvaticu-s and Carex strigosa. In a little 
