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the Craven Nursery there, belonging to Mr. Reginald 
Farrer, which the members were shown round by Mr. 
Redman, the foreman, with whom the President had had 
considerable correspondence. 
The members much enjoyed their visit both to the 
nursery, where they saw many very rare alpines, and to 
the private gardens and to the recently made natural 
rock garden bordering the lake. They were also shown 
Areneria gothica growing in its native habitat. In the 
evening of this day the following plants were found in the 
neighbourhood of Kirkby Lonsdale :—Campanula latifolia, 
Cherophyllum temulum, Helosciadium nodiflorum, Malva 
moschata, Tamus communis, Torilis Anthriscus. 
On Saturday, 31st July, the President and Secretary 
left Kirkby Lonsdale by motor in order to visit the famous 
garden at Levens Hall, where several hundred specimens 
of topiary work were seen, this being the most famous 
garden of the kind in the country. Thereafter the 
journey was continued via Kendal, where fine collections 
of varietal forms of native ferns owned by Messrs. 
George Whitwell and J. J. Smithies were visited. on to 
Lowood Hotel on Lake Windermere, where the week-end 
was spent. The weather during the week was somewhat 
broken, but on the whole a very pleasant time was passed, 
many of the plants gathered and the localities visited being 
new to the majority of the members of the party. 
The wonderful limestone formations on Farleton Knott, 
cleft and cut in every direction and worn into every con- 
ceivable shape, will well repay a visit by anyone who 
happens to be in that neighbourhood ; while the outcrop of 
sugar-loaf limestone at High Force is also most interesting, 
both being very different from anything we are accustomed 
to in Scotland. 
NOTES ON PLANTS OBSERVED DURING A VISIT TO CHILE. 
By W. Batrour Gourtay, B.A, LRCP.& SE 
(Plates VII. and VIIL) 
To write an adequate account of the flora of Chile could 
only be undertaken by a trained botanist, after years of 
travel and research in a country where conditions vary 
