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reddish stone axe perforated for a handle ; a small polished 

 wedge-shaped wedge of felsite ; stone and iron bullets of various 

 sizes, all of these from the gardens and fields round Melrose, or 

 from the district. There were also a couple of very rude " cutty- 

 spoons,'' made of goats' horns, and a very perfect " cruzie " or 

 iron-lamp of daj^s gone by, with three legs attached to support 

 it. Several good examples of querns or hand-mills can be seen 

 in some rockeries in the gardens at Melrose. A catalogue of the 

 antiquities exhibited is appended. Mr A. H. Borthwick showed 

 a lithograph of the " Contract of marriage of John Murray in 

 Unthank, in Ewesdale, and Ann Bennet, second daughter to 

 Archibald Bennet of Chesters, Eox.," dated 29th April 1712. 

 Mr David M. Watson exhibited a photo of the Otterburn Douglas 

 pennon, preserved in Cavers House. 



Of plants and flowers, Mr A. Hay Borthwick sent a pot of 

 Hahenaria viridis, which, in some years is plentiful near Gatton- 

 side Moss. From the same Moss Mr James Tait reported Linncea 

 horealis as growing in considerable quantity. This Moss is in 

 the vicinity of Sorrowleshelds woods, where Goodyera repens 

 grows, as it does in compan}' with the Linncea in one of the 

 Gordon Woods. The Lmncea has also been found near Light- 

 field, and in a fir strip near Lougformacus. Mr Hindmarsh, 

 Alnwick, showed specimens of Pijrola rotundifolia and Epipactu 

 palustris in flower from Newham Bog, Northumberland ; and, 

 along with the latter, a rare white variety, with an abbreviated 

 lip. The Secretary mentioned finding Melampyrum montanum on 

 June 27th, in a wood on the Black Burn, which intervenes 

 between the estates of Cragside and Brinkburne, behind Eimside 

 Moor. He also referred to the occurrence of Cephalanthera 

 ensifolia (uarrow-leaved white helleborine) new to the county, 

 and growing in a wood in Northumberland between the rivers 

 Coquet and Wansbeck. Several members had recently visited 

 Newham Bog, picking up, among others, Gipsy-wort, Eeed 

 Canary Grass, yellow and striped varieties ; Purple Loose-strife, 

 Habenaria viridis, Orchis incarnata, Eleocharis faucifiora, Eavuncu- 

 lus lingua, etc., but without detecting Corallorhizainnata. Orchises 

 appear to have been blooming profusely this season. Mr Lyall, 

 Newcastle, in June, gathered Orchis pyramidalis on New-Water 

 Haugh — quite a rarity on the well traversed ground in the 

 vicinity of Berwick. Genista Anglica grows on Gattonside and 

 Greenlaw Moors, but is generally distributed over the Berwick- 



