488 Report of Meetings for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 



copied the inscription on the door-head of the gamekeeper's 

 house at Harelaw as follows : — 



BWILT Re BuilT 



15 9 3 • W. S. G. S. 17 4 



Reaching Yetholm, one of our artistic members painted several 

 of the old gipsy wives seated on the door stones outside the 

 houses, wearing the "mutches" of the Border dames of times 

 gone by. He reported that some of the houses are still thatched 

 with a kind of reed, called there " Black-headed Laddies," 

 brought from Yetholm Loch, which was possibly Typha latifolia, 

 " Reed Mace." 



The use of a cut of Yetholm Kirk has been kindly permitted 

 by one of the Club's well-wishers. 



Yetholm Kirk. 



A botanical party led by Capt. Norman, R.N., carefully 

 searched the banks of the Beaumont downwards, but owing to 

 the prevalent drought they found nothing of any moment, that 

 had not previously been recorded. Mr A. M. Dunlop brought 

 with him a brown Uredo or Puccinia of the Common Mallow. 



A chapel might have been expected at Mindrum, as church 

 services would be required for the servants or conversi of the 

 Knight Templars, and the brethren of Bolton Hospital, who had 

 lands at Paston* Mr G. H. Thompson supplies me with a 



* Another origin of a much earlier period may be assigned for the 

 existence of a chapel at Mindram, from its being one of the stedes or 

 hamlets granted by King Oswy and his nobles before a.d. 670, to the church 

 of Lindisfarne. Before that date, they had conferred on it numerous 

 donations of land on the river Bolbenda, with the following stedes or 



