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Carex pendula, and Carex remota, the last noted for the first 

 time here. Gaining the post road, the members wended 

 their way through shady walks, or across fields, to the 

 village Inn. After dinner, new members were proposed, in- 

 cluding T. C. Jerdon, Esq., the distinguished ornithologist, 

 who was present and accompanied the Club during its pre- 

 sent walk. Mr Hardy exhibited examples of the " Devon- 

 shire gall" of the oak, which has recently made its advent 

 in Berwickshire, Eoxburgshire, and Northumberland ; also, 

 specimens and drawings of the fly, Anthomyia Tritici, which 

 has this and last year proved so destructive to the wheat 

 crops in East Lothian, Fife, and Berwickshire ; and speci- 

 mens of the wheat Chlorops which he had reared from the 

 common quicken, Triticum repens ; and he also gave in a list 

 of insects gathered in the Cheviot district during the pre- 

 sent summer. There were also handed round some beautiful 

 drawings of some of the rarer British mosses ; some of them 

 from Border specimens, made by W. C. Unwin, Esq., of 

 Lewes. Sir Walter Elliot made a communication on 

 ancient graves in Roxburgshire. Altogether, the members 

 spent a very enjoyable day, the only drawback being the in- 

 exorable train, which was to bear some of them to the 

 distance of 40 or 60 miles before they could reach their 

 homes, and which, therefore, curtailed the papers and com- 

 munications intended to have been made. After the others 

 had departed, the remaining members proceeded to Cockburns- 

 path Tower, a ruined castle of the Dunbars, Earls of March, 

 above a mile to the east of Cockburnspath. It was remarked 

 that more than one style of arch had been employed in this 

 structure, including the adjacent offices; one of them of a 

 more modern appearance. There is, however, no evidence of 

 its being of recent construction, nor of its being tenantable 

 since the old Border period. The approach to it from the 

 east had been from a curious old bridle bridge, of which few 

 suspect the existence ; being hidden in the depths of the 

 dean, a little above the modern bridge. Further on, the 

 Pease Bridge and dean obtained a few summary glances, for 



