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Encalypta streptocarpa, Zygodon viridissimus, Bryum pollens, 

 Mnium rostratum, Hypnum commutatum, filicinum, and 

 molluscum, not to mention others common to both. Among 

 other spoils we also found Anomodon curtipendulus and 

 Leucodon sciuroides. Cinclidotus fontinaloides was abund- 

 ant, and so were Orthotrichum cupulatum, and C. anomalum. 

 Nearly all these were got on rocks by the burn ; three of them 

 are additions to the Berwickshire flora. We could have 

 lingered here much longer, but it was our duty to rejoin the 

 main company, who had left the "moss-croppers" to them- 

 selves. The fairies, we are told, once danced to pipe-music 

 on the banks of the Ale, and delayed belated travellers, who 

 stood charmed to listen; but here were we more intensely 

 enthralled, without the thrilling appeals of magic minstrelsy. 

 Some of the members who still remained behind were con- 

 ducted to a willow tree, where they picked up Cryphcea 

 heteromalla, and Leshea polyantha, but bcth so dwindled that 

 the shy things had evidently hidden themselves, that they 

 might not be put on record. I afterwards found the Zygodon 

 in the ravine at Mill-down below Coldingham.* 



This being the Club's first visit to Eyemouth, the authorities 

 had made preparations to give us a distinguished receptior • 

 " The flag-staffs on the Fort and Pier-head were gaily dressed, 

 and the ships in the harbour gave prominence to their flags "; 

 and being the town fair, the people also kept holiday. The 

 party who had gone down to Eyemouth had the benefit of 

 Mr. Tate's company, and to him I owe the result of their 

 investigations. " On the shore a peculiar porphyritic rock 

 was examined with much interest; for it presents considerable 

 variations of character ; in some parts it is a normal porphyry, 

 with a base of felsite, in which are crystals of common felspar; 

 in other parts the structure is more complicated; for, in 

 addition, are crystals of carbonate of lime and black plates of 



* Erxjthrma Centauriiim grows on the Ale ; and a plot of Doronicum Fardali- 

 anclies has long rooted itself on the hanks helow Linthill. Since the Club's meet- 

 ing, Messrs. Shaw and Anderson have met with Arabis hirsuta, sparingly, and 

 also AmUyodon dealbatus. 



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