REPORT OF MEEtlNGS VOR 1D07 ]8S 



could be reached at 3 p.m., the members deemed it prudent 

 to retrace their steps by Dunsdale, some descending by one 

 side of the Bizzle, some by another, and all re-uniting near 

 Southernknowe. 



A small botanical section ascended the West Hill by the 

 precipitous cliffs which overhang the Bizzle 

 Botanical Burn, a route which called for the exercise of 

 Section. great caution, as the boulders were most in- 



secure, and apt by displacement to occasion 

 danger to anyone immediatel}'' below. Among them, however, 

 and along the edges of tlie runnels issuing from the mosses above, 

 many of the plants already recorded were gathered, the most 

 noteworthy of which were the following : — Teesdalia nudicaulis ; 

 Drosera rotundifolia ; Ruhus chamcemorus ; Epilobium ahini- 

 folium ; Sedam villosum ; Saxifraga stellaris ; S. hypnoides ; 

 Parnassia palastris ; Vaccinium Myrtillus ; V. Vitis Idcea ; 

 Melampyrum pratense var. montanum ; Narthecium ossifragum ; 

 Polypodium Dryopteris ; P. Phegopteris ; Allosorus crisptis ; 

 Cystopteris fragilis var. deiitata ; Asplenium viride ; Lycojiodinm 

 clavatuni ; L. Selago ; and L alpinum. In the course of the 

 excursion the following were also noted : Thlaspi arvense ; 

 Hypericum perj-orataiin ; Filago minima ; Mentha rotundijolia 

 var. alopecuroides ; and Sambaais Ehulus in its old station at 

 West Newton. Among Sedges there were the more common 

 varieties : Carex pulicaris ; C. ovalis ; C . stellulata ; C. glauca ; 

 C jmnicea ; C. 2^iiulijera ; and C. hinervis. Lastrcea m,ontana 

 was scarce on the lower waters of the Colledge, but abundant 

 above Southernknowe. The station for Cornus Suecica on the 

 Western side of the Bizzle, as one descends abruptly towards 

 the valley of the Colledge, was not visited. 



In spite of the facts that the summit was gained a little 

 after mid-day, and the afternoon train was duly caught at 

 Kirknewton, it may be well to put on record that the 

 time allowed for the ascent was insufficient, if any serious 

 effort to secure botanical or other specimens was to be made. 

 The hill-paths were too steep and irregular to allow of rapid 

 progress, and even the descent by them, or over the seem- 

 ingly bare shoulders, proved the occasion of constant stumbling 

 and proportionate delay. A full day could profitably be spent 

 in the ascent of Cheviot by the valley of the Colledge, which 



