*3 



or comfort of its visitors. Two such days could not be more 

 agreeably spent anywhere, and the total cost — including railway, 

 hotel, and all other charges- — did not exceed 16s for the two days. 



On ioth July, to 



CRAWFORDSBURN. 



By the kind permission of Sharman Crawford, Esq., a party of 

 about fifty members and friends visited the beautiful grounds of 

 Crawfordsburn. The grounds are not very extensive; yet they 

 possess a variety of picturesque nooks rarely to be met with, and 

 a number of shady walks and cool enclosures, which, at this 

 season of the year, are as acceptable to the naturalist as to the 

 ordinary pleasure-seeker. It is a pity that the conduct of the 

 public, when admitted into such places, does not justify the pro- 

 prietors in keeping them open. Vulgar people will too often 

 destroy what they cannot admire, and the injury they thus indulge 

 in causes the exclusion of themselves and many who would have 

 the taste not only to admire what is presented to them, but to 

 preserve the objects of their admiration. The geologists of the 

 party had not much to interest them ; but the botanists had ample 

 opportunities for the practical study of their favourite subject. 

 The flora of Crawfordsburn, while it cannot lay claim to any of 

 the more rare British plants, is not by any means devoid of 

 interest. Here are assembled quite a large group of our sylvan 

 species. Sedges are numerous by the side of the stream, and very 

 luxuriant specimens of Carex sylvatica and Carex remota were 

 obtained. A kindred family, the grasses, were well represented, 

 and embraced some good species. The tall wood fescue (Festuca 

 gigantea) luxuriated in shady coverts, accompanied by the false 

 brome grass ( Brachypodium sylvaticum), while the slight and 

 graceful melick grass (Melica uniflora) found a shelter in crevices 

 of the steep rocks. Two St. John's worts were found, neither 

 of which can be said to be common species : these were the 



