PROFESSOR JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR, 249 
Peculiar red matter on rocks at Bennan. 
Visited the island of Pladda in a boat, gathered Agaricus 
campestris and Anthemis nobilis, no other plants of interest. 
Visited the lighthouse. Joined the party for the steamer “ Isle 
of Arran,” and returned to Lamlash about 4 p.m. Sea rather 
rough and weather stormy. 
Friday, 26th September 1857. 
Visited the hill near Lamlash on the south of the road to 
Lag. Ascended by a mountain stream, reached the summit, 
whence a fine view was obtained, Goatfell and hills near it well 
seen, islands on Clyde, Ayrshire, Blackwaterfoot, Argyllshire. 
Descended by a deep ravine which joins the glen to south of 
Lag Road. This ravine very deep, steep sides, and yielded some 
good plants, as :— 
Cardamine hirsuta (6 stamens Athyrium Filix-foemina 
and long style) Cystopteris fragilis 
Saxifraga hypnoides (in pro- Lastrea Oreopteris 
fusion) ,»,  Filix-mas 
Festuca ovina vivipara »  dilatata 
Hymenophyllum Wilsoni Polypodium vulgare 
Blechnum boreale se Dryopteris 
Asplenium Trichomanes (in Phegopteris 
great profusion) Ee 
Numerous lichens and mosses. On the hill was seen a 
peculiar form of Lastrea Filix-mas. Numerous diatoms in slimy: 
matter on the rocks. Nostoc also seen. 
EXCURSIONS IN 1858. 
Canal, Slateford, Colinton, Swanston. 
Saturday, 15th May 1858. 
Party of about 80-100 met at the Canal Basin at 10 a.m., and 
proceeded by the banks of the Canal to Slateford, Colinton, and 
Swanston, returning between 4 and 5 p.m. 
