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of wood and coppice, hill and dale. The botanists among the party used their 
opportunity not merely to admire, hut to linger and collect fresh specimens, such 
as the beautiful black bryony with its graceful trails of glistening berries, and also 
to cut a few twigs from the young oak trees, whose foliage was just changing 
and putting on the mellow tints of autumn. After about three miles had been 
traversed a welcome tea was provided, and then a quiet stroll towards the station 
in the cool of the evening brought the party to Bickley Church as the clock was 
chiming eight. Everyone agreed that the ramble had been a most charming 
one, though it is feared that some of the party found the pace of the botanists 
somewhat too slow for them. 
September 5. — The weather was somewhat unpromising, and only five 
members assembled at Chipstead Station. The path taken led the ramblers 
over some beautiful country to the pretty little village of Woodmansterne, where, 
at the “Woodman,” lea in the open air was provided. From the Banstead 
road fine views were observed, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Great Wheel being 
well picked out in the distance. The return journey led through fields and lanes 
to Parley. Among the objects of interest were fields of lavender and peppermint, 
and some fine specimens of the Turkey oak with its bristly acorn-cups. The 
white-beam was noticed to be in berry ; Linaria minor, Linaria vulgaris. 
Tragopogon pratensis and Solidago virgaurea were among the botanical 
specimens taken. 
FORTHCOMING RAMBLE. 
Arrangements have been made for Selbornians to join the Essex Field Club 
in their annual Fungus Foray ; as, however, the date is not yet fixed, Members 
wishing to take part must send a stamped addressed envelope at once to Mrs. 
Percy Myles, 7, Lincoln Street, S. W. Tea and expenses 2s. 6d. each 
The proposed visit to Waltham Abbey is postponed till March or April. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
F. E. Martin. — Not a Campanula, but Hieracium boreale. 
E. A. Hurst. — Hypopitys Monotropa, the Bird's-nest, rare, but already 
recorded for that division of Gloucestershire. 
Donald. Matthews. — The Artichoke Gall, the work of the hymenop- 
terous Aphilothrix gemma. 
B. S. — (1) Ambrosia trifida. (2) A triplex patula augusiifolia. 
LETTERS RECEIVED. 
Dr. A. Malaher, G. Stanton, F. Primrose Stevenson, George Pernet, 
G. B. R., W. F. Kirby, A. H. Duvall, E. A. Martin. 
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