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Festuca duritiscula, prafensis, elatior, ovina, are all on the 

 Threepwood road ; but I did not see any of them here. 



In pastures the most prevalent grass seemed to be Dactylis 

 glomerata ; and some fields had a great quantity of " Bull 

 Snouts." 



Aira coespitosa, which shows a damp subsoil and need of 

 drainage. 



Ayrostis vulgaris was not at all common. Sheep seem to 

 have a great dislike to it, but they seem very fond of Cynosurus 

 cristatits. 



Milium effusum, or millet grass— a discovery of the late A. 

 Brbtherstone and A. Kelly, Lauder — which grows quite close 

 to the Castle. I quite failed to find " Plants." 



Galeopsis versicolo7' was quite yellow in one patch of turnips, 

 along with Spergula arvensis and Polygonum Persicaria. 



Festuca bromoides, abundant near the manse at Lauder. 



Geology, dr. Notes by Captain Norman. 



Lauder is on Upper Old Red conglomerate. Travelling by 

 light railway, the Old Red is first touched at Oxton, Silurian 

 before that. In 1860 an explorer bored for coal through the 

 deep boulder clay which lies on the Old Red on Boon Hill, 

 a useless quest, of course. On the side of Boundary Burn, a 

 little below Old Thirlestane, a remarkably fine scaur of the 

 boulder clay is exposed. 



Harepaulds is specially protected by Lubbock's Ancient 

 Monuments' Preservation Act — one of the 5 or 6 sites in 

 Scotland that are. 



At Blythe Farm is an old stone built into a wall. It was 

 discovered many years ago in digging foundations, and shows 

 a roughly hewn, though imperfect date, which is either 1002 

 or 1202. Sir R. Maitland, of Blythe and Thirlestane, died 

 in 1298. 



Boon Hill ( = Boundary Hill), is the boundary between The 

 Merse and Lammermuir, 1070 feet high. A cairn marks the 

 old residence of the sergeant who looked after the telegraph, 

 a semaphore I suppose. It was also called Beacon Hill, 



