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Penwhapple Glen was visited chiefly in order to procure some 

 of the worm tracings in the Silurian shales. In this glen and in 

 a glen in the policies at Bargany the oak and beech ferns occurred. 

 Penwhapple is a haunt of the wood wren (Phylloscopus sibilatrix), 

 and at Killochan the chiff-chaff {Phylloscopus rufus) may be heard. 

 At the latter place, on the roadside, Geranium phceum was found. 



Culzean Castle and grounds were visited on 19th May, 1892. 

 On passing from Maybole towards the Ayrshire coast a roe deer 

 (Cervus capreolus) was observed on the north side of Mochrum 

 Hill. On this hill grows the chickweed winter green ( Trientalis 

 europcea) — its only Ayrshire station. 



Entering the Culzean policies by the Pennyglen Gate, the 

 avenue was followed for some distance, when a detour was made 

 towards the right to examine a small sand and gravel moraine 

 near the farmstead of Balchriston. From here the farm road to 

 the shore was followed, and the sandstone rock and porphyrite 

 cliffs, in the latter of which the famous Coves of Culzean are 

 hollowed, were inspected. On the face of the cliffs, in suitable 

 crannies of the rock, grows the wallflower, which at this early 

 season of the year was loaded with its fine flowers, and presented 

 a spectacle rarely to be seen. 



Every one present was delighted with the gardens, and many 

 fine shrubs and flowers were examined, amongst them being 

 Berberis Darivinii; Garry a elliptica, in catkin; the ivy-leaved toad- 

 flax (Linaria cymbalaria); fragrant rosemary (Rosmarinus officin- 

 alis) ; and a very fragrant double-flowered whin of large growth 

 attracted a considerable amount of attention. 



Several trees were measured: — a silver fir, 14 feet at 3 J feet ; 

 a larch, 10 feet 9 inches at 3 J feet ; a small-leaved species of 

 maple, 5 feet nj inches at 1 foot 8 inches; a rhododendron had 

 a spread of 61 paces in circumference, many of the branches, as 

 is usual with this species, lying on the ground, the plant attaining 

 a height of about 20 feet ; an American thorn was 6 feet 10 inches 

 at 3 inches; and a finely-grown Japanese cypress (Thujopsis 

 dolobrata var. variegala) had a spread of ^t, feet in circumference 

 at the ground. A large wall-trained almost leafless fig tree 

 attracted considerable notice on account of its great lateral 

 spread of 61 feet 9 inches, and from being covered with its 



