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to fungi, of which 41 species were noted. Among those identified 

 were Agaricus (Flammula) sainneus, Fr,, Ag. [Entoloma) jubatus, 

 Fr., which was very fine, Ag. (Ilypholoma) ccq^noides, Fr., Ag. 

 {Heheloma) suhcollariatus, B. <fe; Br., Ag. {Psilocybe) S2xidiceics, 

 Fr., Lactarius se7'i/ltcus, Fr. 



Campsib Glen, 27th March, 1897. — This was the opening 

 excursion of the season, but the weather was unpropitious, very 

 few members attended, and nothing was noted deserving of record. 



KiLLiN, 19th April, 1897 (Glasgow Spring Holiday). — On this 

 date a joint-excursion with the Geological Society of Glasgow took 

 place to Killin, a party of about twenty proceeding to the Pier 

 Station at Killin. On the side of the road, and in the woods near 

 Finlarig, several sections of rocks showing limestone overlying 

 hornblende schist were examined."^ The hornblende schist rock 

 is believed to be of altered igneous formation. The dip of the beds 

 here is to the north-west. In this vicinity a fine Spanish Chestnut 

 measured 16 ft. 8^ in. in girth at 5 ft. from the ground, and had 

 a bole of 9 ft. In the New Statistical Account (1843) the girth 

 of the largest of four Chestnuts is given as 15 ft. 10 in. at 3 ft. 

 from the ground. A Sycamore, west of the Spanish Chestnut, 

 measured 13 ft. o| in. in circumference at 6 ft. from the ground, 

 and had a bole of 10 ft. The grounds of Finlarig, the ancient seat 

 of the Breadalbanes, and now containing the burying place of 

 that familv, were visited. Several trees had been blown down in 

 the last great storm, and the trunk of the largest, a Sycamore, 

 still lay on the ground. This tree measured 15 ft. in girth at 

 about 6 ft. from the base of the trunk. In the New Statistical 

 Account it is estimated as being probably 300 years old. At 

 Killin Church is a fine Sycamore with a bole of 17 ft., and a girth 

 of 10 ft. 3 in. at 4 ft. On this tree Sir William J. Hooker is 

 said to have discovered the moss Hahrodon JVotarisii, Schpr., in 

 1830. This moss still grows on the upper part of the trunk of the 



* See a paper by Mr. Peter MacXair " On the Altered Basic Rocks of 

 the Highlands as exemphfied by the Sill of Hornblende Schist underlying 

 the Loch Tay Limestone " in Transactions, Geological Society of Glasgow, 

 Vol. X., p. 302. 



