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PROCEEDINGS OE THE 
entrance to the nave on the south side was through a handsome 
Saxon doorway.* 1 
From Ickleford the party returned to Hitchin, visiting Fairfield, 
the residence of Mr. William Ransom, who provided tea on the lawn, 
after which his extensive antiquarian collection was inspected, the 
most interesting portion of which consists of the weapons, pottery, 
and coins obtained by him in excavations of which he has given an 
account to the Society, f 
Professor Attfield then, as President of the Hertfordshire Natural 
History Society, proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Ransom for his 
kind hospitality and guidance during the day, which was seconded 
by Dr. Shillitoe, President of the Hitchin Natural History Club, 
and heartily responded to. 
With regard to the entomological results of the meeting Mr. 
John Hartley Durrant reports that he was enabled to add nine 
species of Lepidoptera to the known Hitchin fauna, several of these 
also being new to the county. At Wilbury Hill he captured 
Gelechia terella, Conchylis subbaumanniana , Coccyx nanana, l)ichro- 
rampha politana , Sciaphila nubilana , and Catoptria hohenthwarthiana. 
In Hitchin he obtained, at the station, Hecatera dysoidea ; at Ban¬ 
croft, Gelechia domestica ; and at Fairfield, Prays curtisellus. 
The following are the rarer or more interesting plants observed 
in the course of the day, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Wilbury 
Hill:— 
Fapaver Lamottei , Br. 
,, Lecoqii , Lamotte. 
Fumaria Vaillanhi, Loisel. 
,, parvijlora , Lam. 
Trifolium ochroleucum , Huds. 
Lathyrus Nissolia, L. 
(Enanthe lachenalii , C. C. Gmel. 
Bulbocastanum linncei, Schur. 
Galium tricorne , Stokes. 
Carduus nutans , L. 
Samolus Valerandi, L. 
Car ex distans , L. 
,, lepidocarpa , Tausch. 
Bhleum phalaroides , Koel. 
Field Meeting, 6th November, 1886. 
THE ALDENHAM WOODS, WATFOBD. 
This meeting—-the fifth annual Fungus Foray—held in Berry 
Grove Wood and Hearts Spring Wood, near Aldenham, although 
not numerously attended, was a very successful one in its results, 
one hundred species of fungi being recorded, including several of 
considerable rarity, of which one {Agartens nigripes , Pers.) is new 
to Britain, and another {Ay. hamadrys, Fr.) has only recently been 
added to the British flora, and is known to occur in only one other 
locality in Britain, having been met with in Kew Gardens the 
week before for the first time in this country. 
Had the foray been held earlier in the year, not nearly so many 
species would have been seen, for moisture is essential to the 
growth of these lowly cryptogamic plants, and the dry weather in 
the autumn has caused them to be very late in appearing this year. 
* 4 Hist. Herts/ vol. iii, p. 61. 
+ ‘Transactions,’ Yol. IV, Part 2, p. 39. 
