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showing a tendency to return to the "Ash-Oak-Wood" characteristic
of the clay. Here Alchemilla vulgaris, Listera ovata, and other flowers
were obtained.
On leaving the waste, a large heap of stone gathered from the land
surface was noticed, and numerous erratics of Neocomian sandstone.
Jurassic limestones with included fossils and other specimens were obtained.
Mr. Hazzledine Warren gave an interesting demonstration on the manu-
facture of flint implements, and with the greatest ease produced "fakes"
of characteristic types.
Thence the club drove to Hadstock. Here a halt was made at
the church. This church (St. Botolph) showed interesting pre-Conquest
architectural detail in the door arch and nave. The door once bore a
human skin said to be that of a sacrilegious Dane. The fine Jacobean
reading desk and medieval rood screen with its carvings of the fox preaching
to the geese were also noted. The big sycamore growing before the
church was admired, and its growth estimated.
A two mile drive over the intervening hill brought the party to Bart-
low, where a substantial meat tea was provided at the "Three Hills Hotel."
In the Hadstock district a search was made for Lichens and Mosses.
Time did not permit of an extended search for Cryptogams, but Mr.
Percy Thompson has furnished the Editor with the following lists of
species observed :—
LICHENS.
Ramalina calicaris. P. stellaris, sub sp. tenella.
Evernia prunastri. P. lychnea.
Parmelia perlata. Lecanora subfusca.
P. borreri. Squamaria saxicola.
P. fuliginosa. Buellia canescens.
Physcia parietina, var cinerascens. B. myriocarpa.
MOSSES.
Hypnum molluscum. Funaria hygrometrica.
H. riparium. Tortula subulata.
Brachythecium purum. Amblystegium filicinum.
B. rutabulum. A. serpens.
Eurhynchium confertum. Plagiothecium denticulatum.
Neckera complanata. Tortula muralis.
Porotrichum alopecurum. Camptothecium sericeum.
Orthotrichum sp.
A short formal Meeting (the 423rd) was held, the President being
in the chair.
Miss Mary Champness, of 47, Bulwer Road, Leytonstone, was elected
a member.
After tea at the invitation of Mrs. Brocklebank, the gardens of the.
Hall were visited. Here the full effect of the disastrous hail storm of
27th May was seen, the greenhouses, frames, etc., having suffered severely,
and over 1,000 panes of glass destroyed.
The party then proceeded towards the hills, where Mr. Guy Maynard
gave a short address on the excavation and antiquities of them. He
said :—
" The Bartlow Hills are not only the finest group of tumuli in Essex,