178 Field Meetings. 
described the nature of the trap rock, and referred to the other 
formations of which this unique hill is composed. 
As rain now began to fall, the party returned to the machines, 
and the concensus of opinion having been taken, it was agreed to 
return to Lockerbie, and leave for Dumfries by an earlier train, 
abandoning the intention of visiting Birrens Camp on this 
occasion. 
Owing to the excursion having been arranged more for the 
antiquarians and geologists than the botanists, very few plants 
were collected. The Tway-blade, Listera ovatu was very abundant 
in the wood at Cowdens Quarry, and the following plants were 
obtained at the pond near Burnswark :—Ranwneulus Flammula, 
R. trichophyllus, Cardamine pretensis (late in flower), Hyperteum 
dubium, Epilobium palustre, Galiwm palustre, Scabiosa succisa, 
Veronica scutellata, Myosotis collina, Potamogeton natans, and P. 
pusillus. 
