18 REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1901 



latter to the concluding work of the day at Hexham Abbey. 

 Amongst the overnight contingent at Chollerford, with its 

 graceful bridge over North Tyne, were Mr William Boyd 

 and Captain Norman, who devoted their time to the study 

 of local botany, and on Wednesday evening, upon the west 

 side of the river, found Arum maculatum and Galium mollugo 

 (or Great Hedge Bedstraw), and a sweet smelling woodruff, 

 all, according to Mr Boyd, limestone plants They also saw 

 in a hedge row several trees of Viburnum lantana, which 

 Captain Norman considers may have been artificially placel 

 where they were seen, for although an indigenous British 

 tree, it is chiefly in the south of England that it grows. 

 Its leaves are " scurfy," and its flower is a fine white umbel. 

 Among the wild plants noticed on this and the following 

 day, during the excursion, Captain Norman reports the 

 following : — 



Myrrhis odorata, Sweet Cicely. 



Polygonum bistorta, Bistort. 



Arum m.aculatum, Lords and Ladies. 



Sisymbrium thalianum, Thale-cress. 



Galium Mollugo, Great Hedge Bedstraw. 



Carduus heterophyllus, Melancholy Thistle. 



Carda^nine amara, Large flowered, Bitter-cress. 



Plantago media, Hoary Plantain. 



Betonica officinalis, Wood Betony. 



Carex paludosa, Lesser Common Sedge. 



And in hedges : — 



Viburnum Lantana, Wayfaring Tree. 



Prunus Padus, Bird Cherry- 

 Also Erinus Alpinus, plentifully on the walls at Chesters. 



In a wood near Hexham a patch of Hellebore was 

 observed, which had evidently been planted. It was, however, 

 too early in the year for much botany work to be done. 



Among birds, the three following were heard : — Redstart, 

 Garden Warbler, and Willow Wren. 



riij ijtrger contingent, from Hexham, drove at early morning 

 in open carriages along the east side of North Tyne, attended 

 on their road by cool air, sunshine, and fine dust. Their 



