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trailing St. John's wort (Hypericum humifusum ), and the tutsan 

 (H. AndroscRinum ). Tutsan is one of those medicinal plants, 

 renowned of old among domestic practitioners for its healing 

 virtues. It is widely distributed in Britain, inhabiting rocky and 

 shady places, but is nowhere plentiful. The plant, when in fruit, 

 shows a ruddy tinge, and its sap is then coloured red ; con- 

 sequently, when the doctrine of " signatures " was in vogue, it was 

 thought to be plainly indicated by nature herself as a proper 

 remedy for wounds. Time did not permit a close scrutiny of the 

 sea-shore, or the above list would have been much enlarged. 



On Saturday, 31st July, to 



MASSEREENE PARK. 



A small party left by the Northern Counties Railway at 9-30. 



Owing to the unfavourable weather, and the smallness of the 

 party, little was done beyond examining the old canoe dug from a 

 bog near Randalstown, and now preserved in the Park grounds. 



The canoe was one of many dug from the same bog, and is 

 formed of a single piece of oak, and exhibits a fair degree of 

 skilful workmanship, certainly such as could not be accomplished 

 without the aid of iron tools. Measurements were taken for 

 future reference. 



On 17th, 1 8th, 19th, and 20th August, to 



LOUGH ERNE, BUNDORAN, &c. 



On Tuesday morning, the 1 7th August, a party of over forty, in- 

 cluding members and their friends, assembled at the Ulster Rail- 

 way Station, in time to enable the secretaries to complete their 

 arrangements for leaving by the nine o'clock train. The manager, 

 Mr. Shaw, kindly provided a special saloon carriage for their ac- 



