PICTURES OF NATURE IN THE SILURIAN REGION AROUND THE MALVERN HILLS AND VALE OF SEVERN: INCLUDING INCIDENTAL EXCURSIONS WITH THE Malvern and Worcestershire Naturalists' Clubs ; AND NOTICES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY, PICTORIAL SCENERY, BOTANY, GEOLOGY, OF MANY INTERESTING LOCALITIES IN WORCESTERSHIRE AND HEREFORDSHIRE. BY EDWIN LEES, F.L.S. FELLOW OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MALVERN: H. W. LAMB, ROYAL LIBRARY. D. BOGUE, LONDON. ΤΟ DA670 THE REV. F. DYSON, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MALVERn naturalists' club, IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE KIND FEELING AND WARM INTEREST HE HAS SHOWN IN THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY AMONG ALL CLASSES SINCE HIS RESIDENCE AT MALVERN, This Volume IS INSCRIBED WITH MUCH ESTEEM BY THE AUTHOR. M364976 PREFACE. THE Excursions of the Malvern and Worcestershire Naturalists' Clubs have brought out many points of interest that previously lay in obscurity; and they have been productive of so much pleasurable association, that a connected record of them seemed desirable, not merely for the observers themselves, but for all who might take an interest in the localities to which their rambles extended. Many years' close observation of the country described in this volume, and references to notes taken in former explorations, have enabled me to add many facts and remarks that no single excursion could have itself produced. In arranging these Pictures of Nature, I have therefore enlarged the views sketched in company with my friends, and given the additional colouring of after study. Yet I have not neglected the aid that arises from the vicinity of critical eyes, when comparisons can be made and mistakes corrected, and when the most indolent are stimulated to look about them for some good purpose, when they see all their friends engaged in research. These pages may at any rate recall pleasant hours of observation, and the opportunities then given of sketching bright portions of landscape scenery, tracing |