460 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
first, second, and third figures were quite normal in shape, but 
the last letter had been widened out to three times its original 
size. The Simple-leaved Ash near Lady Jane’s Cottage was 
visited. It had not begun to leaf for the season. The bark 
differs from that of the common Ash in being smoother. This 
tree is becoming thickly covered with Ivy. Mr. John Smith 
conducted the party. 
Kirmatcoim, 10th June, 1899.—The district between Kilmal- 
colm and Langbank was visited on this date, but there was a very 
poor turn-out of members. Prof. G. F. Scott-Elliot acted as 
conductor. Among flowering plants noted were Ranunculus 
hederaceus, Linn., Sagina subulata, Presl., Potamogeton pectinatus, 
Linn., Carex limosa, Linn., C. vulgaris, Fries, C’. rostrata, Stokes, 
C. canescens, Linn., Ornithogalum umbellatum, Linn., naturalised, 
Saxifraga hirta, Donn., established. Fungi noticed were Coleos- 
porium sonchi, Pers., Uromyces alchemille, Pers., Heidiwm grossu- 
larie, DC. The green alga Chetophora tuberculosa, Hook., was 
observed. 
INNELLAN, 5th August, 1899.—A joint excursion took place on 
this date with the Geological Society of Glasgow, and was fairly 
attended. The Geological Survey of Scotland recently published 
a Memoir of the Geology of Cowal, chiefly the work of Mr. T. C. 
Clough, M.A., F.G.S., and the object of this excursion was to 
examine a very small part of this district—viz., the section as it 
is exposed between Innellan and Dunoon. This section begins a 
little to the south of Innellan Pier, near the place that a fault has 
thrown down the Upper Old Red Sandstone, which is still pre- 
served between Innellan and Toward. The first part examined 
was a crush-breccia of green serpentine, the pieces of serpentine 
reaching 9 or 10 inches in diameter. The origin of this serpentine 
is not easy to explain, but probably it was derived from a former 
igneous augite-bearing rock. Proceeding towards Dunoon, bed 
after bed of schists, evidently of sedimentary origin, is passed 
over, all of them so much metamorphosed that the original deriva- 
tive has been entirely lost, having been converted into greywackes 
and phyllites. The rocks between Innellan and Dunoon are nearly 

