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assembled in the Ogilvie Arms Hotel on the 10 th of July 

 consisted of Mr. W. B. Boyd of Faldonside, president ; 

 Eev. George Alison, Kilbarchan, chaplain ; Eev. George 

 Gimn, Stitchel ; Commander Xorman, E.X., Berwick ; Dr. 

 Stuart of Chirnside ; Dr. Church of Edinburgh ; Mr. Potts, 

 and myself. A business meeting was held in the evening, 

 at which Mr. Gunn was elected a member of the Club, and 

 a sum of five guineas was voted to the Illustration Fund of 

 the Botanical Society. 



Leave having been obtained from the proprietor of 

 Clova and from the shooting-tenant to visit both Glen 

 Dole and Glen Fee, we arranged to confine ourselves 

 next day (Tuesday) to the north side of the latter glen. 

 Fortunately the day was dry, and bright and warm. We 

 met the keeper of the deer forest at Glen Dole Lodge, who 

 gave us every facility to pursue our investigations, but our 

 finds were not very numerous. As we walked up the glen 

 on the low ground, Trientalis curopcca, L., was plentiful, 

 and Arctostaijhylus Uva-Ursi, Spreng., was found. Ascend- 

 ing to the rocks on the right, and working round the base 

 of them, we reached the well-known station of the Oxyiropis 

 camjJcstris, D. C, the only locality where it has been found 

 in Britain. It covers the rock over a considerable area. 

 Many of the plants were very large and fine, and there 

 seems to be no danger of its being exterminated.*"^ Asso- 

 ciated with this rare plant on the same rocks the rare 

 moss, Trichostoriiura fjlaucesccns, Hedw., occurs, which, after 

 a good deal of searching, Mr. Boyd found two small morsels 

 of, but not in fruit. The present confusion in the nomen- 

 clature of the mosses is well illustrated by this species. 

 Of the eight names that have been given to it, seven have 

 been employed by British bryologists. In 1792, Hedwig 

 named it TrichostowAim glauccscens, and he was followed by 

 "Wilson, and by Hobkirk in the first edition of his Synopsis. 

 In 1801, Dickson called it Bryum glauccscens. In 1807, 

 Weber and Mohr gave it the name of Didymodon 

 glauccscens, and they were followed by Greville and 

 Hooker. The last author also styles it Didymodon 



* It is worth noting that in Germany this plant, under the name of Oxytropu 

 pilosa, is widely distributed on rocky declivities, while the other species of the 

 same genus, under the name of O. montana, occurs only in Bavaria on stony 

 hill-meadows, the rarer species here being the commoner there. 



