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steep ascent had to be encountered. The Corn-bunting, now 

 rather a scarce bird, was here heard trilling its monotonous song 

 on a wall top ; for stone dykes had now taken the place of 

 hedges. The carriages halted at the farm-house. After examin- 

 ing the two fine Spanish chestnuts and some stately oaks, the 

 company descended to the shores of the lake, which very much 

 resembles a placid broad river winding between high woodland 

 slopes. The higher southern bank, with its oaken coppice, much 

 reminded several of the Pease Dean woods, where the oak is 

 such a predominant feature. A few glimpses were taken of 

 successive reaches ; but there was no leisure to see anything like 

 the whole. Cow- wheat fllelampyrum pratensej was common. 

 Carex paniculata was noticed. It is frequented by a rarish beetle 

 here, Cercus pedicularius. Near the lower end of the lake, 

 Calamintha elinopodium (wild Basil), and Scutellaria galericulata 

 (common skull-cap) grow ; and the Spindle-tree {Euonymus 

 Ei(,rop(vus) and the Bird-Cherry (Prunus Padus) are wild in the 

 woods. By the shores of the lake, the BiiU-rush, the Club-mace, 

 and the Sweet-Sedge have been planted. Capt. Norman reports 

 that recently along with Mr Evans he obtained Potainogeton com- 

 pressus, and Anacharts alsinastrum, amongst the water-weeds ; and 

 saw a close green growth at the bottom of either a submerged 

 state of Littorela lacustris, or Sulularia aquatica, uncertain which 

 for want of the flowers. It is the same thing that occurs 

 at Cauldshiels Loch, and in some of the deep moss pools on 

 Coldingbam moors ; in both these instances associated with 

 Littorella on the shore line. In regard to the Coleoptera on one 

 visit I obtained among the swamps, TacliytisOj flavitarsis, Myllcena 

 duhia, Quedtus peltatus, and Q. umhrinus, Er ; and Mr Hepburn 

 obtained Endomychus coccincus and Folydncsus undatus. Mr Hepburn 

 found. Leistus rufescens, Fab., plentiful on oak and birch ; not L. 

 spinilabris, as Mr Murray credits him with, for that is got under 

 stones. In those days, Mr Eobert Logan, Dr James Eowden, 

 now of Montrose, and I sometimes met at Mr Hepburn's for 

 entomological research. Subsequent to that in 1830, Mr Logan 

 paid a visit to Whittingham alone. He furnished me with a 

 copy of the results, in a newspaper slip, as he had reported them 

 to the Eoyal Physical Society of Edinburgh. The following 

 extract is to our purpose at present. 



On the evening of his arrival, May 31st, Mr Logan " in company with Mr 

 Hepburn, found Emmelesia alhularia and Phoxopteryx Lv/ndana in profusion 



