410 Meetings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, by J. Hardy. 



new stone arch, has replaced another that had become ruinous, 

 in support of the tower. In crossing the dean the beauty of the 

 festoons of honeysuckle and ivy dependent from the cliffs were 

 subjects of frequent admiration. There are some grand old trees 

 in the woods. As has been remarked once before, the native 

 ferns are almost of tropical luxuriance. The poet Burns de- 

 clares, in 1787, that Dunglass was "the most romantic, sweet 

 place," he ever saw. 



In early times Dunglass belonged to a family named Pepdie or 

 Papedy, retainers of the Earl of Dunbar. The Papedies are 

 almost pre-historic. Papedi, Sheriff of Norham and Islandshire, 

 occurs in 1 1 1 0. He had no Christian name. Several of them appear 

 in early records ; but the name is extinct. Sir Thomas Home of 

 Home, in the reign of Robert III., married Nicholas Papedie, 

 the heiress of Dunglass, and by her obtained that property. 

 These are the ancestors of the present Earl of Home. Dunglass 

 was sold in 1 644 in the troublous period of Charles I. to Sir John 

 Euthven, an officer engaged in the continental wars, and General- 

 Major in 1644, who died in 1649. His spouse, Lady Barbara 

 Lesley, 4th daughter of the first Earl of Leven, the famous General 

 Lesley, is buried in the old church. She died in 1672. Their 

 son, Sir William Euthven, sold Dunglass to Sir William Sharp, 

 brother of Archbishop Sharp, 1 684-5. Sir William Sharp disponed 

 it to Edward Callender, merchant in London, in 1685, who dis- 

 poned it in favour of Sir John Hall, the first baronet. Sir John 

 had previously, in 1682, acquired the barony of Oldcambus, and 

 for these and all his other lands he obtained a charter in 1687, 

 and an Act of Parliament in 16.95. 



The following plants may be here recorded as the result of 

 Professor Balfour's periodical visits with students to Dunglass 

 dean and neighbourhood. Several of them are not indigenous, 

 having been either planted for ornament, or being garden outcasts : 

 Neottia nidus-avis, Cardamine amara, Mrsuta and sylvatica, Hyperi- 

 cum calycinum, Lamium Galeobdolon, Berberis vulgaris, Geranium 

 Phmum, Riles alpinum, Eranthis hyemalis, Anchusa sempervirens, 

 Viburnum Lantana, Carex pendula, Melica uniflora, Chrysosplenium 

 alter nifolium, Aquilegia vulgaris, JVuphar luteum, Anacharis alsinas- 

 trum, Sparganium ramosum, Typha augustifolia, Acer campestre, 

 JSpilobium augustifolium, Senecio Sarracenicus, Carduus Marianus, 

 Mimulus luteus, Vinca major and minor, Equisetum maximum, 



