34 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
Kirkcaldy, Dysart House, Ravenscraig Castle, Raith, 
Pettycur, Burntisland. 
Saturday, 5th June 1847. 
Met at stone pier, Newhaven, at 9.30 a.m. Party above 60. 
Went by steamboat to Kirkcaldy, thence to Earl of Rosslyn’s 
Dysart house. Saw fine rhododendrons, chiefly hybrids between 
R. arboreum and R. ponticum, also R. catawbiense and some 
Coniferze, Cedrus Deodara particularly, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus 
Cembra, Picea Webbiana. Proceeded by shore to Ravenscraig 
Castle, thence to Raith, visited Raith grounds and loch, saw 
very fine specimens of Adzes Douglasiz—one in particular past 
west end of loch—also a form of Pzuus Strobus called by the 
gardener P. monticola. From Raith walked to Kinghorn and 
thence to Pettycur and by shore to Burntisland. Returned by 
boat at 7 p.m. 
Picked :— 
_In Dysart Wood :— 
Ranunculus aquatilis | Lonicera Caprifolium 
uilegia vulgaris Polemonium czeruleum 
Fumaria micrantha Veronica polita 
Montia fontana Lamium amplexicaule 
At Ravenscraig :— 
Cheiranthus Cheiri Smyrnium Olusatrum 
Silene maritima Salvia Verbenaca 
At Raith :-— 
Cardamine amara Blechnum Spicant 
Helianthemum vulgare Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum 
Viola hirta Lastrea Filix-foemina 
Geums (monstrous) »  Filix-mas 
Valeriana pyrenaica »  Spinulosum 
Doronicum Pardalianches Polypodium vulgare 
Pteris aquilina 
At Kinghorn :— 
Thlaspi arvense Convolvulus arvensis (not 
.  Torilis nodosa in 
