PROFESSOR JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR. 175 
Burntisland, Pettycur, Kinghorn. 
Saturday, 20th May 1854. Queen's Birthday. 
Party of 120 met at the Dundee and Perth Railway Station 
and at Scotland Street Station at 9.45 a.m., and proceeded to 
Burntisland. Return tickets, 9d. 
Visited the Island, gathering :— 
Salvia Verbenaca Sclerochloa maritima 
Parietaria officinalis bs loliacea 
Thence walked to hills to the east of Burntisland, where we 
got Botrychium Lunaria. Mr. David Philip Martyn picked 
Orobanche rubra. Mr. Lowe gathered Alyssum calycinum (on 
the bank near the roadside) and Reseda /utea was also found. 
Some shale plants, as Lepidodendron, and some coaly matter, 
in the trap tuff. 
Walked by the shore to Pettycur and then by Kinghorn and 
Kinghorn Loch to Burntisland, 
Picked on the way Fumaria micrantha, Thlaspi arvense, 
Littorella lacustris, Potamogeton lucens, Nostoc on stones in 
running water, and a peculiar kind of lichen on stones at 
Kinghorn Loch. 
Tynehead Borthwick Castle, Crichton Castle, Fushie 
Saturday, 27th May 1854. 
Party of 130 met at the North British Railway Station at 
Il am..and proceeded to Tynehead, thence they walked to 
Crichton Castle, Borthwick Castle, Fushie Bridge, and Gore- 
bridge, returning by the train which passes Gorebridge at 
7.27 p.m. Return tickets, 1s. 2d. 
Near Tynehead Gentsta anglica was gathered in profusion, 
and also :— 
Hippophaé rhamnoides Botrychium Lunaria 
Gymnadenia albida (by Lycopodium Selago 
Mr. Fairbairn) ck clavatum 
