300 Anniversary Address. 



orders of the late Marquis of Breadalbane, was greatly admired 

 The old churchyard in its immediate vicinity was next visited 

 and found to contain some curious epitaphs and designs, 

 illustrative of the craft or profession of the deceased whom 

 they were intended to commemorate. It is hoped that these 

 will be thoroughly examined and described, there and else- 

 where, before the hand of time entirely obliterates the few 

 which remain legible. After traversing the Langton woods 

 and following the burn, under the guidance of Mr. Stevenson, 

 the party separated at Raecleughead, where examples exist of 

 aqueous erosion and a great fault in the old red sandstone : 

 one section of members returning thence to Dunse, through 

 the castle woods, examining the kaims and ancient sea mar- 

 gins formerly described in the club's Transactions ; whilst 

 another section followed a ravine with banks of hard conglom- 

 erate in the direction of Langtonleescleugh in search of Saxi- 

 fraga hirculus, discovered in that locality and added to the 

 Scottish flora by the Rev. Thomas Brown, whose name I am 

 sorry to find has disappeared from our list of members. In 

 this excursion several rare plants were observed — such as 

 Listera nidus-avis, Veronica montana, Vicia sylvatica, 

 Senecio aquaticus and Myosotis sylvatica. After a careful 

 and almost fruitless search the very rare Saxifraga was at 

 length found, in a wet spongy bog, by Dr. Clay, in company 

 with several Ejnlohiums, whose early leaves it was difficult 

 at first to distinguish from that of the Saxifraga which had 

 not yet shot up its flowery stem. Many specimens were, 

 however, gathered which flowered afterwards in water. On 

 the return of this party to Dunse and before re-entering the 

 Langton woods Hahenaria alhida and chlorantlia were found 

 in abundance, Polypodium dryopteris and Aspidium oreop- 

 teris were seen in great beauty, and a large and elegant form 

 of Rosa spinosissima, described in the Natural History of the 

 Eastern Borders as the JRosa ciphiana of Sir Robert Sibbald, 

 who made it the subject of a Sapphic ode. 



The inconvenient arrangement of railway trains early broke 

 up the dinner party. No papers were readj but two gentle- 



