40 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
Reston, Coldingham, Fast Castle, Dene, St. Abb’s Head. 
Saturday, 3rd July 1847. 
Party of 35 met at North British Railway Station at 5 a.m. | 
and proceeded to Reston Station. Walked to Coldingham 
and breakfasted in W. Craig’s house. Thence proceeded under 
direction and guidance of Mr. Alex. Robertson, son of the 
minister, to Fast Castle, thence by shore to Dene, Lumsdaine, 
and St. Abb’s Head, and returned by train leaving Reston 
about 6 p.m. 
Picked :— 
At Fast Castle and in the Dene near it :— * 
Thalictrum minus | Sedum Rhodiola 
= majus Epilobium angustifolium 
Vicia sylvatica 
‘Orchis mascula 
On a knoll in Lumsdaine estate south from Fast Castle :-— 
Trientalis europzea (picked by Mr. Fraser) 
On shore between Fast Castle and St. Abb’s :— 
Glaucium luteum 
Stenhammera maritima 
Ligusticum scoticum 
Antennaria dioica 
Carlina vulgaris 
On top of cliffs:— 
Dianthus deltoides - 
In field near a loch not far from St. Abb’s Head :-— 
Poterium Sanguisorba (in profusion) 
In the loch :— 
Nuphar lutea (in flower) Lobelia Dortmanna (not in 
ower) 
Rocks near St. Abb’s :— 
Asplenium marinum 
