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the party, and conducted the members to the old church. It 

 stands on the sloping banks of the South Esk, and is now a 

 roofless ruin. The style is the pointed early English. In the 

 one end is a quaint little doorway, with trefoil arch cut from a 

 single stone; in the opposite end is the prettiest of the windows, 

 with a fine head of plate tracery with plain circles; on the 

 south side are two pointed windows; on the north side one, the 

 second having evidently been built up. The heads of these 

 windows are also of plate tracery. The double sedilia in the 

 south wall and the doorway are thought to date from the time 

 of the Templars. A tomb in the north wall belongs to the 

 fifteenth, and the belfry to the sixteenth, century. 



A dozen of the party made a short detour to Edgelaw 

 Reservoir, but, beyond observing six herons perched on the trees, 

 and a large number of waterfowl, nothing of special interest was 

 noticed, and the party retraced their steps, and soon rejoined 

 the main body at Arniston. 



The main interest at Amiston centred in the splendid avenues 

 of trees. These were planted in 1736, and consist mainly of 

 Beech, Elm, Larch, Maple, and Lime. Sir Eobert Dundas has 

 still in his possession the invoices of these trees, and offered to 

 show them to anyone curious to see them. A Larch in front 

 of the house measured 9 feet 8J inches at 4 feet 4 inches on 

 west side; another, 12 feet \ inch at 4 feet 9 inches on east 

 side; an Ash on north side of the road, near the gate in the 

 park, measured 12 feet 7 inches at 5 feet 3 inches on south- 

 east side; a Maple, on same side, 12 feet 3 J inches at 5 feet 

 6 inches on south-east; a Maple, on south side, 16 feet 1 inch 

 at 4 feet 5 inches on north-west side; an Ash, on north side, 

 12 feet 8 inches at 5 feet 5 inches on south-east; and another 

 Ash, also on north side, 15 feet \\ inches at 4 feet 9 \ inches 

 on south-east side. 



The party then made for Gorebridge, and travelled to Edin- 

 burgh. After a halt here for tea, Glasgow was eventually 

 reached after a most enjoyable day's excursion. 



The following list of fungi was reported by Mr. Johnston : — 



Amanita phalloides, Fr. 

 rubescenS) Pers. 

 vaginatus, Bull. 



