70 Report of Meetings for 1890. By Dr J. Hardy. 



fonnd in the limestone near Hadden, but the latter contained more cal- 

 careous matter. Similar rocks occur further west, and we also saw them 

 in Riccarton Burn and in the hill near Old Saughtree, where, along' with 

 the red, there was also compact milky flint approaching to white chal- 

 cedony. The rock at Robert's Linn was formerly much sought after as an 

 ornamental stone, but is too much mixed with extraneous substances and 

 too splintery, to be of great value for this purpose." — 



Trans. Highland Soc, 1845, pp. 50, 51. 



Mr Andrew Waugh, Hawick, has kindly furnished me with a List of 

 Graptolites named for him by Mr Charles Lapworth, Mason Science 

 College, Birmingham, from which the following selection of those that 

 moi'e immediately appertain to the district of the Club's visit has been made. 



"Protovirgularia sp. Stirches — only the one indicated. The others are 

 possibly trails of Annelides, Crustacean burrows, and the like — very 

 common in some of the Hawick rocks. Hawick Beds. 



Mo7iograptus Bicartonensis, Lapworth, Riccarton Beds. 



■ priodon, Bronn., Riccarton Beds. 



Nemertites Cumhrensis, Murchison, Hawick Beds. 



tenuis, McCoy, Stirches. 



Objects unknown — perhaps remains of Plants — Riccarton Beds. 



Monograptus vomerinus, Nicholson, Fencrise Barn; Riccarton Beds. 



Monograptus or Cyrtograptus spiralis, Geinitz, Fencrise Burn ; Riccarton 

 Beds. 



In Girvan, at Hawick, in Scandinavia or Central Germany, and Wales 

 as well as in the North of England, only fragmentaiy examples of this 

 form have yet been obtained. It is just possible that this is its natural 

 size, and that it never branches. But on the other hand, a collection of 

 older specimens might show their branching, and enable us to locate it 

 satisfactorily among the true Cyrtograptid forms." — Charles Lapiuorth, 

 Oct. 8, 1885. 



Mr Waugh continues : " A small fossil shell found by Mr Frank E. 

 Rutherford, Hawick, in the Riccarton Rocks, was sent to the Geological 

 Survey Office, and named Orthis ?" 



Botanical. 



In answer to some enquiries, Mr Waugh writes : " A few of us were 

 over the hills of Maiden Paps, Greatmoor, and part of Caldcleuch in the 

 end of July, and fonnd a number of Mosses, etc., which we sent to Mr 

 James Clark of the South Kensington Museum to name. The different 

 Wild Berries which we picked up were — Rubus Chamoimorus in fruit, 

 ripe; Empetrum nigrum in fruit; Vaccinium Vitis-Idcea in fruit; V. 

 myrtillus in flower ; V. o.rycoccus (Cranberry) in flower. In regard to the 

 Cranberry I have not found, nor have I heard of its being found on the 

 Hawick side of the hills, but it is plentiful on the Liddesdale side. The 

 Juniper used to grow on Caldcleuch, but it has disappeared now. The 

 late Mr Hardie of Priesthaugh showed me a plant in his garden a few 

 years ago, which he got on the hill." 



Mr Clark's list does not contain anything that is rare, but Splachnum 

 ainpullaceum may be singled out as the best. 



