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to fungi, of which 41 species were noted. Among those identified 
were Agaricus (Flammula) sapineus, Fr., Ag. (Entoloma) jubatus, 
Fr., which was very fine, Ag. (Hypholoma) capnoides, Fr., Ag. 
(Hebeloma) subcollariatus, B. & Br., Ag. (Psilocybe) spadiceus, 
Fr., Lactarius seriflwus, Fr. 
CampsigE 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. 
Kiiiin, 19th April, 1897 (Glasgow Spring Holiday).—On this 
date a joint-exeursion with the Geological Society of Glasgow took 
place to Killin, a party of about twenty proceeding to the Pier 
Station at Killin. On theside 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, 84 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. 5} 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 family, 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 Habrodon Notarisii, Schpr., in 
1830. This moss still grows on the upper part of the trunk of the 
* See a paper by Mr. Peter MacNair ‘On the Altered Basic Rocks of 
_ the Highlands as exemplified by the Sill of Hornblende Schist underlying 
the Loch Tay Limestone” in Transactions, Geological Soeiety of Glasgow, 
Vol. X., p. 302. 
