106 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
At Hopetoun :— 
Berberis vulgaris Quercus Robur 
Castanea sativa 
Listera ovata 
Athyrium Filix-foemina 
Lastrea Filix-mas 
»  dilatata 
Polypodium Phegopteris 
Lonicera Periclymenum 
»  Caprifolium 
Linaria Cymbalaria 
Marrubium vulgare 
In Hopetoun grounds, saw fine specimens of pines, Abies 
Douglasii, Cedrus Libani said to have been planted 101 years ago. 
Gorebridge, Borthwick Castle, Crichton Castle, 
Prestonhall, Dalkeith. 
Saturday, 8th June 1850. 
Party of 70 met at the North British Railway Station at 8 a.m. 
and proceeded by train at 8.15 to Gorebridge, thence walked to 
Fushie Bridge, Borthwick Castle, Crichton Castle, Ford, Preston- 
hall, and Dalkeith, and returned by train passing Gallowshall at 
7.30 p.m. Fare going and coming, Is. 
The following were some of the plants gathered :— 
In marshy, moorish ground near Borthwick and Crichton :— 
Trollius europzus 
| Carex glauca 
Cardamine amara | » pilulifera 
Myrrhis odorata »» preecox 
Valeriana dioica (in great »» panicea 
uantity) | » sylvatica 
Pinguicula vulgaris », binervis 
Carex dioica | » flava 
» intermedia | > hirta 
»» paniculata »  paludosa 
» remota » Tiparia 
»  ovalis »» ampullacea 
»  Goodenovii 
