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On account of the interesting nature of the riverside it 

 was arranged to walk along the North bank of the Tyne 

 as far as Hailes Castle, whence carriages would convey the 

 party to Tantallon Castle. Leaving the Eailway Station, on 

 one of whose walls facing the South a specimen of the 

 Japanese Climbing Hydrangea ( Schizophrcujma hydrangeoides) 

 was well established, the party proceeded along the path- 

 way, for years the subject of litigation between the inhabitants 



of Linton and the proprietors of Phantassie 

 Lothian and Hailes. For a considerable distance it is 



Tyne. shaded by handsome Willows and confined within 



steep banks, on the slopes of which strawberries 

 and hardy fruits are ripened for tlie market. The river, which 

 rises near Ciichton in Midlothian and flows Eastward through 

 Haddington and Tyninghame where it joins the sea, pursues 

 its course over the Tuedian or Lowest Carboniferous strata, 

 which are bordered towards Hailes Castle by low cliffs of 

 igneous rock, a huge intrusive mass of which is visible in 

 Dunpender or Traprain Law on the South, rising 724 feet 

 above sea-level. Several mills are dotted along the river from 

 Beanston to near the Kuowes, while in the vicinity of the 

 village of East Linton the stream presents an object of 

 natural beauty in the Linn up which salmon and grilse find 

 their way in time of heavy rains. On the present occasion 

 the water was in a normal condition so that its banks were 

 accessible, and the botanists had little difliculty in securing 

 a number of interesting specimens. Among these the following 

 may be mentioned as having been gathered between the 

 Railway Bridge and Hailes: — Helianthemum vidgare ; Biaiilhios 

 deltoides ; Arenaria serpyllifolia ; Malva parvijlora ; Hyperic^ira 

 perforatum ; Geranium jtratense ; G. pyrenaicum ; G. pusUIum ; 

 Impatiens Julva ; Ononis arvensis; Trijoliiim arvense ; Potentilla 

 argeiitea ; Epilohium parviflorum, ; Sednm, •felephium. ; S. acre ; 

 Dancns carota ; Convitm macnlatum ; Myrrhis odorata ; Chcero- 

 phyllum temulum ; Galium mollugo ; Artemisia vu/garis ; 

 Tanacetutn vidgare ; Carduus crispus ; Filago germanica ; 

 Scrophidaria nodosa ; Mentha rotundijolia var. alopecuroides ; 

 Symphytum tuberosum ; Sjxtrganium ramosum ; Phalaris a7-un- 

 dinacea ; and Festuca gigantea. The path terminated at the 

 public road near the old village of Hailes— at preseiit 



