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Chalmers, &c., &c. Breakfast over, Professor Balfour thanked 
Dr. Gilchrist for the handsome way he had treated the party 
The botanical party then left in omnibuses and visited Den Mill, 
Rutton Loch, and Cargen (Dudgen’s), and returned to Dumfries 
in time for train at 6.10 p.m. for Edinburgh, Return tickets, 5s. 
The following plants were collected :— 
Lepidium Smithii Sparganium simplex 
Sagina nodosa Alisma ranunculoides 
Geranium sanguineum Potamogeton heterophyllus 
Genista tinctoria a lucens 
Vicia sylvatica reelongus 
Sedum reflexum Scolopendrium vulgare 
Lythrum Salicaria Lastrea Oreopteris 
Carum verticillatum Polypodium Dryopteris 
Meum athamanticum - egopteris 
Galium palustre Chara flexilis 
Achillea Ptarmica vulgaris 
Lobelia Dortmanna Noche crispa 
Jasione montana complanata 
Melampyrum pratense Foutinane antipyretica 
Stachys Betonica Aulacomnion palustre 
Littorella lacustris Sticta fuliginosa 
Gymnadenia albida 
Aberfeldy, Ben Lawers, Farrichar Quarry, Moness Falls. 
Thursday, 23rd July 1868. 
Party consisting of J. H. Balfour, A. P. Aitken, John Archibald, 
Rev. Charles T. Astley, George Bowman, John Storrs Brookfield, 
W. H. Brown, A. Craig Christie, Henry M. Church, J. Clelland 
Clarke, R. F. Colvin, William Craig, Louis Conrad Jockel, John 
Leitch, Robert Lindsay (gardener), William Logie, Thomas 
Wm. Mawson, Hugh Miller, P. Miller, Alexander Morrison, 
F. Naylor, David Page, John Sadler, John A. Simpson, R. Sive- 
wright, Dr. R. H. Traquair, George Twentyman, Dr. Arthur 
Abney Walker, E. A. Walker, J. Watters, Dr. H. A. Weddell 
(Switzerland), Miss Weddell (Switzerland), left Edinburgh per 
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway at 1.10 p.m. and 
proceeded to Aberfeldy. They stayed at M‘Kenzie’s Breadal- 
