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ditches to correspond. It is enclosed in a beech plantation. 

 Here we parted company, our object being the margin of 

 the lake, which lies in a lirk of the very unequal, hillocky, 

 rising ground, as it draws here to a summit. The loch is 

 reached by a steep unequal descent down a grassy ravine. 



The bottom of the loch, at this end, is a sharp rough 

 greywacke or greywacke slate, disposed on edge. The 

 water is wonderfully limpid and free from floating weeds. 

 Near the side is a bed of Nuphar lutea, probably planted 

 by the previous owner. Mr Wood said he had tried and 

 experienced the beneficial efforts of fresh slices of the 

 root to allay toothache. The Bog-reeds grow at the 

 N.W. end. 



There was a great stock of Carexes on the marshy margins 

 of the portion skirted ; but, after a careful scrutinizing, none 

 of them were rare. The following were noted: — Carex 

 glauca vel recurva, which, in the morning, had been observed 

 to be very abundant in fruit, on the post road sides near 

 the Upper Moor House (Drummond Hall) ; Carex vulgaris vel 

 ccBspitosa, showing the presence of a mossy influence ; Carex 

 pilulifera^ very frequent, and with large berry-like capsules — 

 quite a contrast with the diminutive plants that grew on the 

 dry sides of Prestoncleugh Camp, on Bunkle Edge ; Carex 

 ovalis, in deeper soil. Other marsh or moist-loving plants 

 were Polygonum amphibium, Caltha palustris, Lychnis flos-cuculi, 

 Ranunculus flammula^ Eleocharis palustrts, Myosotis ccespitom, 

 Litorella lacustris, Galium palustre. Mixed with the grasses 

 and Junci was a luxuriant state of Anthoxanthum odoratum, 

 worthy of record, the spike at the base being broken up 

 into many flattened smaller spikelets, which at the toi)s 

 tapered to, and became combined in, a long, narrow, terminal, 

 single spike. The full length of one example was 2 feet 

 4 inches ; the spike 4;^ inches long. There was also a fine 

 purple variety of Aira ccespitosa. 



On the beach numerous small blue Dragon Flies {Agrion 

 puella, female) rested on stones or m.oist clay, either ovi- 

 positing or on the outlook for prey. 



The abrupt rocky crag, at the eastern end,' is mostly 

 covered with grass and wild flowers ; Fe,stuca duriuscula was 

 the most prevalent mixture, with which were joined Trisetum 

 flmescens, Avena pratensis, Alopecurus pratensis, and where 



