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agrimony, Enpatorinm Carnmbinnm. In Balraae gardens Mr 

 M'Guffoo- pointed out two nice Alpine plants growing profusely 

 on the southern exposure of the garden wall— one the Arenaria 

 Alpina. and the other growing in festoons, Linaria Cymhnlaria, or 

 locally better known as " Wee Wandering Tailor." On leavino- 

 the gardens fine examples of the Moonwort were picked up. 



Srd July— To Burn foot, in Eskdfile. 



By Mr W. Dickie. 

 On the invitation of Colonel W. E. Malcolm, the society paid 

 a visit to his residence of Burnfoot, in the parish of Westerkirk. 

 There they had the pleasure of seeing not only the many interest- 

 ing memorials of a distinguished family that are in the possession 

 of Its present honoured representative, but also treasured relics of 

 the battle of Otterburn and of the combat of Earl Douglas and 

 Harry Hotspur, which are in the keeping of Mr Malcolm's 

 daughter, Mrs Palmer Douglas, of Cavers. The journey as 

 arranged involved a circular drive of some forty-seven miles, with 

 Annan as its base, and traversing the parishes of Annan, Midd'lebie, 

 Langholm, Westerkirk. Canonbie, Half-Mortou, Kirkpatrick- 

 Kleming, and Dornock. 



Starting from Annan, the first part of the drive was by the 

 Kirtlebridge road, through a bit of pleasantly wooded country, 

 skirting the policies of several mansions, passing the extensive and 

 busy Corsehill freestone quarries, and on to Kirtlebridge station 

 and the thriving village of Eaglesfield, with its cottages scattered 

 m picturesque irregularity among well-stocked gardens. Charm- 

 ing views opened up as the party proceeded. Burnswark on the 

 one hand dominated a stretch of gently sloping land diversified in 

 colour by bright green corn fields and the bare brown of turnip 

 land, and freely dotted with timbar clumps. In the foreground 

 stretched the fine old woods about Springkell, which encircle the 

 graves of " Fair Helen " and her lover Fleming. Away in the 

 distance the tapering monument to Sir John Malcolm was seen like 

 a beckoning finger crowning the Whita Hill, just over the town of 

 Langholm. Pushing on by Waterbeck— the cosy and busy village 

 associated with the enterprise of the Messrs Carlvle— the valley of 



