Report of Meetings for 1887. By J. Hardy. S3 



Edmunds, Kyloe ; Evan Eutter, Spittal ; H. E. Henderson, 

 Alwinton; William Snodgrass,D.D.,Canonbie; Charles J. Cowan, 

 B.D., Morebattle ; George Gunn, Sticliell ; Peter McK.en.Mn, 

 Kelso; Capt. Norman, R.N., Berwick; Adjutant Macpherson, 

 Melrose ; Ur E. C. Robertson, Otterburn ; Dr Edward Johnson, 

 Tweedbank, Kelso ; D. D. Dixon, Eothbury ; W. T. Hindmarsh, 

 Alnwick; II. H. Blair, Alnwick; G. H. Thompson, Alnwick; 

 James Lesslie Nowbigin, Alnwick ; A. M. Dunlop, Ashkirk ; 

 Peter Dodds, Biddleston and John Nicholson, Farnham, as 

 visitors. 



There is no room here for many more observations made on 

 this occasion when staying at Biddleston. I may, however, state 

 the result of a short visit along with Mr Dodds to the upper part 

 of Biddleston woods, and an examination of the plants among the 

 rocks at the base of Coldlaw, that springs up to a great altitude 

 immediately behind the plantations, where I was unexpectedly 

 brought into contact with an Alpine Flora in close contiguity 

 with the cultivated fields of agricultural Coquetdale. The dean 

 or cleugh behind the mansion consists of sandstone rock, mostly 

 lying at a low angle ; and being dry, Nettles, Herb Mercury, and 

 Circaa lutetiana are prevalent. Saxifraga umbrom was planted out 

 by the late Mrs Selby, and thrives. Other plants noticed were 

 Geranium pratense, and G. syloaticum. The cleugh opens out to 

 a great open glen with steep grassy sides, ascending far up to the 

 Black Butts, where the gaping peat rifts are very visible about 

 the head. Behind it lies Wheelhope in Kidland, a chief resort 

 of foxes. The bare scaurs and dwarf crags of reddish porphyry 

 rock here are well coated with lichens, and when we visited them 

 were very dry, the snows that nourished them having long since 

 gone. Wild Thyme and Galium saxatile were abundant ; tufts of 

 Asplenium Trichomanes grew not uncommon in the shadiest 

 chinks of the rocks ; and near the base, Foxgloves and Ground- 

 Ivy ; and Poly podium vulgare was frequent. The rarest lichen 

 was a creamy white one, granulose in the centre, foliaceous at 

 the margin, viz. Squamaria gelida, which grows sparingly also on 

 similar rocks by the Alwen below Puncherton Crags, and above 

 Shilmore on the Coquet. It was once found by Mr Jerdon at 

 Glenburnhall, Jedburgh. (Hist, of Club, vi. p. 436). Other 

 lichens were Peltigera canina, P. olivacea, P. saxatilis, P. ompha- 

 lodes, P. conspersa, Lee idea geographiea, L. rivulosa, Lecanora 

 parella, and Callopuma vitellinum. Jungermannia ciliaris was 



