202 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
had an inscription on it to the following effect :—* Professor 
Balfour’s Botanical Party to Ben na Muich Dhui, August 1854.” 
After partaking of a very substantial breakfast, the party, 
under the guidance of Mr. Howden, visited the old Palace with 
its large Hall, John Knox’s pulpit. They then proceeded to the 
roof of the building, where they had an excellent view of the 
surrounding country. Visited the new church built by the late 
Mr. Tindal Bruce. Then walked to Falkland House, some 
visited the interior of the mansion. Thence proceeded towards 
the West Lomond Hill, at the foot of which lunch was 
provided by Mr. Barclay. After lunch the party went to the 
top of the hill, which is 1712 feet above the level of the sea. 
Had a fine view of Kinross-shire and Loch Leven. Descended 
-into Glenvale, and walked along the side of the stream. 
Proceeded to Balo and by the south side of the East Lomond to 
the Falkland Road Station, where the party arrived about 
6.30 p.m., thoroughly wet by a heavy thunderstorm which 
commenced between 3 and 4 p.m. and lasted all evening. 
Some visited the Bishop Hill. Returned to Edinburgh by the 
train passing Falkland Road at 7.12 and reaching Edinburgh 
about 9 p.m. 
Among the plants gathered were the following :— 
Papaver Argemone 
Fumaria micrantha 
Cardamine amara 
Viola lutea 
Sagina subulata 
Geranium pusillum 
Oxytropis Halleri (on 
Bishop Hill 
Saxifraga umbrosa 
ypnoides 
Chrysosplenium alterni- 
folium 
Sedum villosum 
Hippuris vulgaris 
Epilobium presser ria 
nifolium 
(latter siadaa on West 
mond Hill) 
Conium maculatum 
Galium pusillum (in Glen- 
vale) 
Solidago Virgaurea 
Antennaria dioica 
Centaurea Cyanus 
Hieracium atratum 
Leontodon Taraxacum 
palustris 
Vaccinium Vitis-Idzea 
iho europea (in 
eat profusion in the. 
woods and on the hill) 
Myosotis repens 
Solanum Dulcamara 
Veronica scutellata 
Littorella lacustris 
