220 Geology of Eglingham District. By James Tait. 



13. Geaster Bryantii £erk. — Five to six specimens of this 

 rare fungus were found at Fairnington, Roxburgti, on peaty 

 soil, by James Howden, a mole-catcher, recently deceased, who 

 would have made an excellent naturalist if he had had opportu- 

 nity and time. Believing them to be something uncommon, he 

 brought them to me, and Dr C. B. Plowright kindly determined 

 the species. 



14. Gyromitra esculenta Fr. — Sent to me, May 1891, by Mr 

 J. B. Boyd, from Cherrytrees, where I afterwards saw three or 

 four fine specimens growing on a rockery in the vicinity of silver 

 firs. Eare. Some years ago, on looking over a portfolio of 

 beautiful coloured drawings of plants done by Miss Dickinson of 

 Norham, I found among them a figure of this fungus, which 

 was discovered near the river side there, but has not since 

 reappeared. 



15. Geoglossum yiscosum Pers. — Bowmont Forest; Oct. 1890. 



Geology of the Eglingham District, luith special regard 

 to its Glacial features. By James Tait, Belford Estates 

 Office. 



[^Eead at the Meeting on Beanley mil, May 2Sth, 1890.] 



It will be my endeavour to make my remarks on this subject 

 as brief as possible, as Papers read at these meetings are some- 

 times felt to be tiresome. And, first if we deal with the great 

 framework which stretches from the sea on the E. , to the foot of 

 the Cheviots on the W., it may be said to belong — with a few 

 exceptions— to the lower division of the Carboniferous, or coal- 

 bearing system. And, just as the Silurian and other divisions 

 have received their names from ancient or other associations, so 

 this system has received that name by which in early times this 

 northern part of the county was known — the Bernician. 



As will be easily perceived, the general dip of the strata is to 

 the E. and S.E. ; so that as we journey West, or North- 

 Westward, we are always coming on the outcrop of lower 

 formations. As a rule, these formations culminate on the verge 

 of that ring of hills which encircles the valley of the Aln, the 



