420 Sir Waler Elliofs Addresa. 



nay, even before Cocker or Wingate had existence, these 

 lands may have been gained by a far-off owner by " Kevels." 



" "We'll cast Kevels us amang, 

 See wha the man may be — 

 The Kevel fell on Brown Kohyn, 

 The master man was hee." 



Beport of Sir Walter Elliot'' s Address at the Alnwick Meeting, 

 August 11th, 1868. 



After dinner. Sir Walter Elliot stated that at the recent 

 meeting of the British Association, at Norwich, he took the 

 opportunity, as the Delegate of the Club, of mentioning, in 

 the botanical section, the discovery of new plants by the Club 

 at their meeting of the preceding month, adverting, at the 

 same time, to the utility of such continued local observations, 

 and to the value of local Faunas and Floras so determined. 

 Mr. Berkley, the distinguished Fungologist, President of the 

 Biological section, bore similar testimony, and instanced, in 

 confirmation, the labors of the one with which he was more 

 immediately connected, in Northamptonshire. A specimen 

 of Medicago, found at Melrose, forwarded by Mr. Jerdon to 

 Professor Balfour, was exhibited to the section, and was pro- 

 nounced by Mr. Bentham to be M. maculata ; but as the 

 botanists present are aware, M. denticulata and M. minima 

 have also been discovered. Dr. Balfour also showed a species 

 of Hieracium, found by his class in an excursion to Selkirk, 

 in the month of June last, which Mr. Bentham identified as 

 H. collinum, a well-known continental species, but new to 

 the British Flora, and which as now discovered in Selkirkshire, 

 may not improbably be found to occur also within the limits 

 of the Club's explorations. 



A paper was read by Professor Lawson of Dublin, on the 

 distribution in Great Britain of a rare moss, Buxbaumia 

 aphylla, and on its occasional occurrence in localities from 

 which it seemed again to disappear without any apparent 

 cause. This called up Dr. J. D. Hooker, the President of 

 the Association, who related a remarkable anecdote in con- 

 nection with it, stating that it was the accidental discovery of 

 this minute moss by his father (the late Sir William Hooker), 

 near Norwich, where it has not been found again, that first 

 directed his attention to the study of botany. Young William 

 Hooker brought the tiny plant to his relative, Sir James 



