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Pebble-Beds, and the resulting swampy heath and shallow pools should 
prove happy hunting grounds for botanists and pond hunters. 
On the heath another very local plant, Bupleurum falcatum , was 
found, but the blossoms were only just appearing ; its yellow umbels 
looked very graceful and delicate peering above most of the other plants 
on the broad road-sides. Careful search was made on the heath for 
Pulicaria vulgaris, but in vain : probably the season was a little too 
early for it. 
From the heath a drive of about three and a half miles brought the 
botanists to Ongar Station to take the home train. 
The following is Miss Skinner’s 
course, it is by no means exhaustive 
Ranunculus sceleratus 
,, flammula. 
Nymphcea lutea. 
Viola tricolor. 
Polygala vulgaris. 
Spergula arvensis. 
Hypericum hirsutum. 
,, quadrangulum. 
Melilotus officinalis. 
Trifolium ochroleucum. 
,, fragiferum. 
,, hybridum 
Vicia cracca. 
Lathyrus tuberosus. 
,, pratensis. 
Agrimonia eupatoria. 
Bupleurum falcatum. 
Hydrocotyle vulgaris. 
Conium maculatum. 
Sison amomum 
VE thus a cynapium. 
Daucus carota. 
Galium mollugo. 
,, saxatile. 
,, palustre. 
,, verum. 
,, aparine. 
list of the plants observed, but, of 
Dipsacus fullonum. 
Scabiosa arvensis. 
Senecio sylvaticus. 
Arctium lappa. 
Carduus palustre. 
Centaurea nigra. 
Cichorum intybus. 
Sonchus arvensis. 
Calluna vulgaris. 
Lysimachia nemorum. 
Myosotis palustris. 
Solanum dulcamara. 
Lycium chinense. 
Veronica beccabunga. 
,, anagallis. 
Pedicularis sylvatica. 
Lycopus europoeus. 
Prunella vulgaris. 
Betonica officinalis. 
Ballota nigra. 
Teucrium scorodonia. 
PI ant ago media. 
Polygonum cuspidatum. 
Euphorbia helioscopia. 
,, exigua. 
Alisma plant ago. 
EXCURSION TO MERSEA ISLAND (THE 427th MEETING) 
Saturday, 2oth September 1913. 
The members of the party reached Colchester about 10.30, arriving 
from several districts, the Secretary and Mr. H. A. Cole journeying from 
St. Osyth. They were conveyed in a motor-omnibus to Mersea, 
a ten-mile journey through a very pleasant country. 
The conductors were the President, Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S., Mr. 
Hazzledine Warren. F.G.S., the Rev. J. W. Kenworthy, Mr. Robert 
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