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The fourth did battled walls inclose, 



And douhle mound and fosse. 

 By narrow draw-bridge, out-works strong. 

 Through studded gates an entrance long, 



To the main court they cross. 

 It was a wide and stately square ;— 

 Around were lodgings, fit and fair^ 



Aiid towers of various form, 

 Which in the court projected far, 

 And broke its lines quadrangular. 

 Here was square keep, there turret high, 

 Or pinnacle that sought the sky, 

 Whence oft the warder could dfescry 



The gathering ocean storm." 



In the spacious court of the castle Conium maculatum grows rank 

 amongst the ruins. We gathered also Lepidium latifolium on the edge 

 of the cliff, and were fortunate in discovering a quantity of Hyoscy- 

 amus niger in fine condition, occupying, with its drooping lurid flow- 

 ers and foetid odour, an appropriate place in an obscure corner of the 

 castle. Sambucus nigra grows here in wild profusion, as indeed it does 

 along the whole coast. Carduus acanthoides and marianus were also 

 found. We left Tantallan with reluctance, while the evening sun was 

 pouring a stream of golden light into its silent court and deserted halls, 

 and had instinctively turned, ere we leaped across the moat, to take a lin- 

 gering look at the venerable pile, when our reveries were broken by the 

 last of the party rushing from the entrance in a fine fit of poetical 

 frenzy, and shouting after us the parting words of Angus to Marmion : 



" And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go ? 

 No, by Saint Bryde of Bothwell, no ! 

 Up draw-bridge, grooms ! — what, warder, ho ! 

 Let the portcullis fall !'' 



By this time the Professor, with a considerate regard for the condi- 

 tion of his " followers," who had been fasting all day, was in full cry 

 upon a bank of mushrooms (Agaricus campestris and Georgii) in an 

 adjoining meadow, which were carefully deposited in his vasculum to 

 give an additional relish to a repast intended to do for the threefold 

 duty of dinner, tea and supper. As we retraced our steps to North 

 Berwick, we picked Triticum junceum and Briza media near the 

 shore ; and in the fields and by the way-side Lithospermum arvense, 

 Scandix pecten, Anthriscus vulgaris. Lychnis vespertina shedding its 

 tiehest odors to a beautiful Scottish ' gloarain,' Lychnis Githago^ and 



