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Maxwell and family, the party returned to Dalbeattie in convey- 
ances, which had been ordered to meet them, and arrived in 
Dumfries shortly after eight o’clock. 
The following is a list of some of the rarer plants met with 
during the day :—Helianthemum vulgare, Drosera rotundifolia, 
Arenaria serpyllifolia, Hypericum quadrangulum, H. humifusum, 
Orobus tuberosus, Genista tinctora, Peplis portula, Parnassia 
palustris, Carum verticillatum, Helosciadium inundatum, Galium 
palustre, Gnaphalium dioicum, G. sylvaticum, Senecio sylvaticus, 
Crepis paludosa, Campanulia latifolia, Pyrola media, Veronica 
scutelluta, Calamintha Clinopodium, Anagallis tenella, T'riglochin 
palustris, Gymnadenia Conopsea (pink and white varieties), 
Habenaria viridis, H, bifolia, H. chlorantha, Narthecium ossi- 
Sragum, Carex flava, C. binervis, C. Stellulata, Briza media, and 
Selaginella Selaginoides. 
Bric House Bay anp Boreue.—lst August, 1885. 
The fifth Field Meeting was held on the above date, and, like 
the preceding ones, the excursion was again favoured with fine 
weather. Starting from Dumfries by the morning train for Tarff 
Station, where they were met on arrival by Mr Coles and some 
Kirkcudbright members ; the party proceeded thence in waggon- 
ettes through the fertile parishes of Twynholm and Borgue to the 
Bay, noticing as they passed an old Roman fort on the farm of 
Boreland of Borgue. This part of the shore was visited on a 
_ former occasion by the Society, when the Bone Cave of Borness 
was then explored. Now the party were contented to botanise 
along the heights and the cliffs; and the few who had not 
explored the cave on the former visit, did not feel inclined to 
undertake the dangerous task of doing so on this occasion. After 
_ spending several hours in this way they re-assembled at the farm 
house of Southpark, where they were entertained to luncheon by 
Mr and Mrs Coles. Along the sandy margin of the bay were 
found Linum perenne, Eryngium maritimum, Erodium cicutarium, 
- Salsola Kali, Salicornia herbacea, and Cukile maritima. Near the Bor- 
ness Cave the small broad-leaved Centaury, Hrythrea centuurium, 
Var. capituta was tound. The rest-harrow, Ononis arvensis (red and 
