REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1903 



Ross Links. 



The Second Meeting of the season was held at Belford, 

 on 25th June, and was attended by the following: — Captain 

 Norman, R.N., Organizing Secretary; Rev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, 

 Editing Secretary; Mr George Bolam, Treasurer; Mr Wm. 

 B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Mr J. Cairns, Alnwick ; Mr J. T. Dand, 

 Warkworth; Mr Arthur Giles, Edinburgh; Mr A. M. Hardie, 

 Newcastle; Mr J. Lindsay Hilson, Jedburgh; Mr H. Rutherfurd, 

 Fairnington ; Mr T. B. Short, Berwick ; and Mr Jas. A. 

 Somervail, Broomdykes. 



On assembling at Belford Station the party was conveyed 

 by brake to Ross Farm, where they divided 

 Ross Links, into sections to explore the well-known links, 

 situated between Fenham Flats, a long stretch 

 of muddy sand lying between Holy Island and the mainland, 

 and Budle Bay to the South-east on the way to Bamburgh. 

 The day proved threatening, and little progress had been 

 made before a heavy thunderstorm burst over the sea, 

 accompanied by vivid lightning and a downpour of rain. 

 In spite of the disagreeable change in the weather, however, 

 the members 'pursued their course among the sandy dunes 

 and hollows, which afford ample scope for botanical research. 

 It was matter of regret that owing to the unusually backward 

 state of the season, a number of plants, including Psamma 

 baltica (for which a new station was discovered here by Mr 

 A. H. Evans and Captain Norman a few years ago) a stout 

 coarse grass closely allied to the better known P. arenaria, 

 but with a slightly pinkish panicle, could not be identified ; 

 but at the close of a patient and careful investigation, a 

 novelty was reported in Anayallis tenella, familiar to visitors 

 to Holy Island. A. arvensis was found in unusual abundance 

 and vigour, its scarlet flowers being conspicuous amid its 



