PROFESSOR JOHN HuTTON BALFOUR. 343 
Nicolson, George A. Panton, John Rankine, James Thomson, and 
William Thomson, met at the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee 
Railway Station on Monday, 3rd August, at 9.40 am. and 
proceeded to Perth, and then by the North Eastern Railway. 
They intended to go to Kirriemuir, for which they had return 
tickets for 7s. 6d. The party were carried on by the train to 
Forfar. They were astonished to find themselves at Forfar, and 
on asking an explanation they were told that the train did not 
stop at Kirriemuir Junction. Ultimately Kirriemuir was reached 
about 5 p.m. 
After taking lunch in the Commércial Inn, the party started 
in a brake with two horses, a carriage and pair, and two dog- 
carts. Reached the inn at Clova about 7.15, having taken about 
two hours in coming from Kirriemuir. The inn at Clova is now 
kept by Mr. Barnes and his wife, and is a nice building, much 
improved and with plenty of beds. We were all accommodated 
in six rooms, most of them with double beds and four of the 
rooms with two in each. We dined on arrival, and in the evening 
walked to the bridge and gathered Carex aguatilis and Carduus 
heterophyllus. On the way we all picked Meum anthamanticum, 
and near the inn Anchusa sempervirens. 
Tuesday, 4th August 1863. 
Started this morning at 8, and walked on the western side of the 
Esk to Glen Dole gathering <Alchemilla alpina, Trientalis 
europea, Malaxis paludosa, Gymnadenia albida. Botanised on 
the rocks to the west of Glen Dole, and gathered :—Szlene 
acaulis, Rubus saxatilts, Saxifraga aizotdes, S. stellaris, S. 
opposttifolia, S. hypnoides, Sedum Rhodiola, Saussurea alpina, 
Guaphalium supinum, Arctostaphylos Uva-urst, Pyrola secunda, 
Veronica alpina, Salix rupestris, S. reticulata. 
Visited Astragalus cliff. Messrs. Irving, J. Thomson, and 
Nicolson ascended the cliff and gathered Astragalus alpinus in 
flower. At the cliff we gathered also Dryas octopetala, Erigeron 
alpinus, and Vaccinium uliginosum. Near the cliff was abun- 
dance of Polypodium alpestre. Ascended to top of hill, gathered 
Rubus Chamemorus, Cornus suecica, and Carex rarifiora. 
-Descended into Glen Fiadh and gathered Oxytropis campestris 
and Salix Lapponum. Visited Robert Welsh at Acharn. 
Returned to Clova between 7 and 8 p.m. 
