PROFESSOR JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR. 63 
Thus ended a botanical trip of no ordinary kind, whether 
we regard its extent, the rarity of the plants picked, or the 
adventures connected with it. Three weeks were spent 
in visiting the richest alpine districts in Britain, Braemar, 
Clova, Glen Isla, and Ben Lawers, and there was scarcely an 
alpine species which was not collected by the party. 
The discovery of Carex leporina on Cairn Toul and of 
FHieracium villosum on Lochnagar, the gathering of Sonchus 
alpinus on the latter mountain and of Woodsia hyperborea in 
Glen Isla, the finding of Luzu/a arcuata on Ben na Mac Dhu, 
Cairngorm, Lochnagar, Braeriach, and Cairn Toul, and of 
Carex vaginata on all the Highland hills, thus extending the 
localities of these rare species—all these are facts which are 
interesting to botanists. 
EXCURSIONS IN 1848. 
Gorebridge, Arniston, Kirkhill, Dalhousie. 
3 Saturday, 13th May 1848. 
About 80 met at 9 a.m. at North British Railway Station and 
proceeded by train to Gorebridge. Thence walked to Arniston 
and along the banks of the river to Kirkhill and Dalhousie 
Station. Returned about 6 p.m. 
Picked :— = ase 
Aconitum Napellus (not in | Doronicum plantagineum 
flower Pulmonaria officinalis 
- Stellaria nemorum es Lathrzea Squamaria 
Prunus Padus (Arniston) Arum maculatum ~ 
Saxifraga umbrosa (not in Taxus baccata 
flower Scolopendrium vulgare 
Chrysosplenium alternifolium Equisetum Telmateia 
Adoxa Moschatellina eos 
