Field Meetings. 83 



Lutea (rave), Empetrum nigrum (crow-berry, rare), Saxifraga 

 hypnoides (rare), LathyruH macrorrhiztis (Heath pea), m the 

 Dalveen Pass ; Myosotes versicolor, Pedicularis sylvatica, Geum 

 rivale, and Eqtdsetiom sylvatica, along the roadside ; found 

 Stellaria nemorum (rare), at Enoch Castle. Of the ferns there 

 may be mentioned : Botrycldum lunaria (moonwort), growing 

 along the roadside, and Polyj^odium phego2')teris (Beech), P. 

 dryopteris (Oak), Lastrea montana, Allosorus crispus (Parsley), 

 Scolopendrium vulgare, and Hymenojihylhim Wilsoni (Filmy Fern, 

 rare), in the Dalveen Pass ; and Cystoj^teris fragilis (Bladder 

 Fern), at the Dalveen Pass and Enoch Castle. 



List of Coleoptera : Cicindela camjnstris, Carahus arvensis 

 (rare), C. clathratus, C violaceus, Lihria chlorocij)]iola (rare), 

 Anchomenus gracilis (rare), A. oblongus, (rare), Amora bi/roiis 

 (rare), A. spi^iipes (not common), Pembidium femoratiim, P. doris, 

 P. quadripustulatum, Corey on minutus (not common), Quedius 

 lateralis, Q. xanthopios, Q. impressics (rare), Silpha sinuata (not 

 common), S. Opaca (not common), Apihodiits hosmorrhoidolis (rare), 

 A. inquinatus, Geotriqyes mutator, G. jnmctatostriatus, Coryinbites 

 cuprens, C. metallicus, Agriotes spiutator, A. lineatus. 



HoDDOM Castle, Repentance Tower, and Carlyle's Tome. 

 1th July, 1883. 



A large party (thirty-three ladies and gentlemen) participated 

 in the July excursion. In the early morning the weather pi'ospect 

 was disappointing, but only one or two slight showers fell during 

 the day, which was otherwise dry and fine. After a pleasant 

 drive, the party arrived at Hoddom Castle about mid-day. The 

 Castle is of the old Scotch baronial style of architecture, and 

 belongs to different periods. The central tower is now the only 

 part existing of the original Castle, which was built in the 15th 

 century by Lord Herries from the stones of an ancient chapel ; 

 and, with the exception perhaps of the outer walls, the other 

 portions of the biulding are comparatively modem, extensive 

 additions being made so recently as 1878. To the back of the 

 Castle and in the walls are the remains of Roman altars and 

 inscriptions, which were discovered at the Roman camp of Birrens 



