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gathered by Mr Ferguson in the Eink Camp. There is a fine 

 tall hawthorn hedge on the left hand as the road proceeds 

 towards Yair Bridge, loaded at this season with haws^ but when 

 seen earlier an unbroken mass of lovely white blossom. 



Across the well-cultivated fields, by the river's brink, the 

 trees are chiefly wide branched Elms, and dark stiff Alders ; 

 beneath which the waters glimmer and glitter, or fret in mimic 

 rage among dark projections of the rocky bottom. Some black 

 hued ducks or water-hens were sporting in the calmer pools, in 

 and out from among the tree shadows. A great quiet prevailed. 

 Water-cress grew at Yair Bridge. There are goodly Oaks and 

 Larches in the steep woods. The bottom ground is very damp, 

 the Epilohium palustre thriving in the marshes. The wayside 

 flora on that side was poor; Juncus acutijlorus grew in the 

 ditches; and Stellaria graminea on the damp road margins ; and 

 Herb Robert at the hedge bottoms. In drier soil there were 

 clumps of wild Easpberry, and even wild Strawberry plots 

 offering sweet fruit. The escape of a nestful of young 

 Wrens was observed, and caused much concern to the fussy 

 parents. 



There are some grand old Ash trees at Sunderland Hall 

 cottages ; not so numerous now as they were once ; as the 

 danger of decayed trees falling and damaging their inmates, 

 has necessitated their being thinned. The cottage fronts were 

 loaded with roses. After passing Ettrick Bank, much Mugwort, 

 sign of old occupancy, grew by the roadside. 



The occurrence of the Glow-worm in the wood at Philiphaugh 

 (which I noticed consisted of Scotch Fir, Oak, Hazel, and Birch) 

 was recorded on a previous visit ; and now it was added that 

 this insect also is to be found at Haining. 



After dinner, a letter was read from the Eev. Dr Farquharson, 

 explanatory of a photograph, entitled " Les Avants, Montreux," 

 which showed a portion of one of the patches of Narcissus 

 poeticus in the pastures along the Chauderon above Montrena, 

 on the lake of Geneva. Mrs Herriot, Simprin, sent Medicago 

 denticulata that had sprung up in her garden there. Mr William 

 Boyd said that the Eev. Mr Marshall, on a recent visit, had got 

 several new varieties of wild roses near Faldonside ; and that 

 he had found various new forms of Utricularia in the Selkirk 

 lakes : as well as Potamogetons, and promised a list. The 

 Crcbted Duck was breeding in some of these lakes. Mr Boyd 



