326 BOTANICAL EXCURSIONS MADE BY 
Penicuik, Auchendinny, Roslin. 
Saturday, 17th May 1862. 
Party of about 100 met at the North British Railway Station 
at 11.45 a.m. and proceeded to Penicuik. Visited Mr. Cowan’s 
Paper Mills. Walked by banks of Esk to Auchendinny and 
Roslin, and returned by train at 6.42 p.m. Tickets, Is. 3d. 
Among the plants gathered were :— 
Ranunculus auricomus Salix alba 
Arabis hirsuta or cinerea 
Cardamine amara e+, -aDrea 
‘ pratensis Neottia Nidus-avis 
= hirsuta Orchis mascula 
‘ sylvatica Carex pendula 
Viola palustris Melica nutans 
» sylvatica » uniflora 
, tricolor Polypodium Dryopteris 
Stellaria uliginosa Phegopteris 
Lathyrus macrorrhizus Equisetum arvense 
Chrysosplenium alterni- si umbrosum 
olium “ sylvaticum 
Pyrola minor = palustre 
Linaria vulgaris a hyemale 
Daphne Laureola 
In all about 100 species. 
Mid-Calder, Kaimes Hill, Dalmahoy, Ravelrig, Water of 
Leith, Balerno, Currie. 
Saturday, 24th May 1862. 
Party of about 80 met at the Caledonian Railway Station at 
10.20 and proceeded to Mid-Calder, then walked by Meadowbank 
to Kaimes Hill and Dalmahoy, Ravelrig, Water of Leith, Balerno, 
and Currie, whence they returned at 6.11 p.m. Return tickets, 
Is. 
