316 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
Burntisland, Aberdour. 
Saturday, 18th May 1861. 
Party of about 130 met at the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee 
Railway Station at 9.30 a.m. and proceeded to Burntisland, 
thence walked to Aberdour and returned to Burntisland 
for train at 4.50, reaching Edinburgh at 5.50 pm. Return 
tickets, 8d. 
Among the plants gathered were the following :— 
Ranunculus auricomus - Primula elatior 
Cochlearia officinalis Pulmonaria officinalis 
=e danica Solanum Dulcamara 
Sisymbrium Thalianum Veronica hedereefolia 
Lepidium Smithii Lamium amplexicaule 
Thlaspi arvense »  incisum 
Viola hirta »  purpureum 
» sylvatica ‘ album 
»  canina Plantago Coronopus 
Silene maritima Rumex scutatus 
Geranium sanguineum Daphne Laureola 
. pheeum Mercurialis perennis 
(Aberdour Castle and (both dicecious and 
churchyard) moncecious 
Medicago maculata Allium Scorodoprasum 
(Aberdour Castle, »  vineale 
below the churchyard) Arum maculatum 
Poterium Sanguisorba Blysmus rufus 
(not in flower) Carex preecox 
#Ethusa Cynapium Sclerochloa loliacea 
Valerianella olitoria Scolopendrium vulgare 
Armeria maritima Botrychium Lunaria 
Primula veris 
Linlithgow, Carriden, Blackness Castle, Hopetoun, 
Niddrie Castle, Winchburgh. 
Saturday, 25th May 1861. 
Party of 80 met at the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 
Station at 7 am. and proceeded to Linlithgow. Visited the 
