170 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
David Ross, M. A. Soubki, William B. Wood, Peter Young, left 
Edinburgh on Thursday, 4th August, at 6.30 am. by the 
Northern Railway, having taken second-class return tickets for 
Glammis at the fare of gs. 2d. Proceeded by Perth to Glammis, 
and reached the latter place about 11.30 a.m., where Findlay’s 
cart was waiting for the baggage. Rev. W. Balfour of Holyrood 
and Master Harry White met the party there and walked with 
them to Kirriemuir, where they had lunch in Robb’s Commercial 
Inn. Walked thence to Cortachy and Clova, reaching the latter 
about 8 p.m. 
On the way picked the following plants :— 
Woods near Kirriemuir :— 
Pyrola minor | Listera cordata 
Trientalis europza 
Roadside, Clova :— 
Alchemilla alpina 
Saxifraga aizoides 
Meum athamanticum 
Pyrola media 
Plantago maritima 
Polygonum viviparum 
Were all accommodated in the inn a hall. Eleven slept in 
the hay in the hall, the rest at the in 
Friday, 5th August 1853. 
Mr. Bayley went to fish in the Esk, while the rest of the party, 
after bathing and breakfasting, crossed the Esk and walked past 
Ogilvy’s House towards Glen Dole. 
On the way gathered :— 
Meum athamanticum Tofieldia palustris 
Carduus heterophyllus Carex aquatilis (near the 
Malaxis paludosa bridge) 
Gymnadenia albida 
Afterwards went towards Craig Rennet, at the foot of Glen 
ee. 
Gathered :-— 
Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi | Pyrola media 
Cliffs on right side of Glen Fee yielded :— 
Draba incana _ Epilobium angustifolium 
Oxytropis campestris. _ Woodsia ilvensis 
