300 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
Linton went to Ballater. Of the Kirriemuir party, Mr. Barclay 
and Mr. Pougnet went to Aberdeen and Peterhead, Mr. Le 
Deant and Mr. Labonté went to Perth, the rest to Edinburgh. 
The Ballater party left Clova at 6.15 a.m. and ascended by 
Ben Driesh to the west of Loch Brandy. The hills were covered 
with mist. The party required the compass to guidethem. The 
direction taken was N.N.E. The road was very rough, and the 
journey fatiguing. After three hours’ travelling there was a 
partial clearance of the mist and part of Lochnagar was seen, 
which helped to direct the party. We joined the Glen Muick 
road between 4 and 5 miles from Ballater and reached the latter 
place about 12.45. 
On the way we gathered :— 
Pyrola media Melampyrum sylvaticum 
Trientalis europzea Betula nana 
Linaria repens 
On 19th August Mr. Graham and Mr. Linton visited Balmoral. 
On 22nd August Dr. Balfour visited Lochnagar. 
EXCURSIONS IN 1860. 
Penicuik, Auchendinny, Roslin. 
Saturday, 12th May 1860. 
Party of 120 met at the North British Railway Station at 9 
a.m. and proceeded to Penicuik, thence walked by banks of Esk 
to Auchendinny and Roslin and returned from Roslin Station at 
5-30 p.m. Return tickets, 1s. 3d. 
Vegetation very far behind its usual state at this season. 
Collected :— 
Polypodium Dryopteris _ Equisetum umbrosum 
Gi Phegopteris | 
(with scarcely a | 
leaf expanded) : 
50 or 60 species of flowering plants were gathered, besides many 
mosses and lichens, also J/orchella esculenta. 
