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and a breath of pure Lammertnuir air, were obtained. Resuming 

 their seats in the brakes, they proceeded in the direction of the 

 Brunt farm, and on their way to Woodhall crossed the burn 

 whose course it was intended to investigate. A small number, 

 with the Secretary and the farm shepherd, attempted to follow 

 it upward from this point, while the larger portion drove on to 

 the farm house, where they were received by Mr Jokn Davidson, 

 the genial tenant, and were most hospitably entertained. A walk 



through his farm to the Tinkler's Loup — a deep 

 Woodhall. ravine fissured in the Old Red conglomerate — 



which in his efforts to escape the attention of the 

 police a miscreant is said to have leaped, effected a junction 

 with the botanical section, who in the course of their 

 sci-amble had gathered specimens of many of the plants associ- 

 ated in Lammermuir stations of this kind. In the gorges and 

 meadows traversed by the mountain torrents, which on their 

 way to the sea near Skateraw unite under the names of Thurston, 

 or Dry burn (the latter title being locally explained by the 

 disappearance of the water as it filters through a gravelly bed 

 before reaching the ocean), the following were identified : — 

 Helianthemum, vulyare; Stellaria holostea; S. graminea; S. uligin- 

 osa ; Hypericum quadrangulum ; H. pulchruyn ; Geranium, 

 sylvaticum ; G. dissectum ; G. Hober-tianum ; Potentilla tormen- 

 tilla ; Epilohium, hirsutum ; Oirccea lutetiana ; Sedum, acre ; 

 QSna7tthe crocata ; Lonicera Periclymenum, ; Galium saxatile ; 

 Asperula odorata ; Hypochceris radicata ; Crepis paludosa ; Cam,- 

 panula latifolia ; Veronica Chamcedrys ; V. Beccabunga ; Stachys 

 sylvatica ; Teuchrium Scorodonia ; Myosotis ccespitosa ; M. 

 sylvatica ; Iris Pseudacorus ; Orchis mascula ; 0. latifolia; Juncus 

 glaucus ; Carex ovalis ; C. disticha ; G. vulgaris ; C. glauca ; 

 C hirta; Polypodium vulgare; P. Dryopteris; Cystopterisfragilis; 

 Polystichum aculeatum; Lastrcea montana; L. Filix-mas; L. dila- 

 tata ; Athyrium. Filix-foemina ; Asplenium Trichomanes ; A. 

 Adiantum-7iigrum ; and Blechnum spicant. The natural wood 

 of the district, which affoi'ded much charm to the steep banks 

 of the streams, and abundant cover to ground game, comprised 

 Mountain- Ash (Pyrus aucujxtria) ; Birch (Betula alba) ; Hazel 

 (Corylus Avellana) ; Common Elder (Sambucus nigra) ; and 

 Oak (Quercus Robur). 



