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West, and was again visited by one or two members, 

 Cicuta virosa and Carex teretiuscula were reported. Salix 

 repens was not uncommon on the surrounding moor. 



It was originally intended, and the Organizing Secretary 

 had so planned, that the whole time of the members should 

 be devoted to rambling about these Mosses and Whitmuir 

 grounds and plantations; but a kind invitation to the 

 Club to visit Newstead on the return journey having been 

 accepted by the President, this alteration in the day's pro- 

 gramme necessitated a hurried advance towards 

 Whitmuir Whitmuir Hall, the residence of Mr Charles 

 Hall. W. Dunlop, who had granted permission to 



view the grounds and investigate an adjoining 

 plantation, one of the few stations for Corallorhiza innata in 

 our district. A new garden had recently been laid out, 

 and gave promise of becoming attractive and fruitful. 

 The Mansion-house is situated among fine trees, and sur- 

 rounded by a lawn in which several varieties of shrubs 

 were making luxuriant growth. A Clematis on the house- 

 wall was an object of general admiration. The party, 

 however, had to hasten through the grounds, those electing 

 to return by Newstead taking their places in one of the 

 brakes, and those bent on further botanizing repairing to the 

 belt of wood on the South-East, in which Pinus montana was 

 abundant, though giving signs of damping at the root. Here 

 on 19th July 1899 was discovered the Coral-root, and it was 

 confidently expected that it might be again in flower even so 

 early, as the season had proved forward. Very diligent search 

 was made in damp, moss-grown hollows, the ideal home of 

 this rare Orchis; but in spite of the most thorough examin- 

 ation no trace of it could be found. It may lessen the 

 disappointment of the members to learn that a like failure 

 awaited the President and Mr Wm. Shaw, who renewed the 

 search a fortnight later, and were forced to the conclusion 

 that the dryness of the season had to do with its failure to 

 flower ; but that no anxiety regarding its continuance here need 

 be entertained, there is reproduced in the present volume 

 (Plate XIII.) a very successful photograph of the plant in 

 situ, taken during the summer of 1906 by Mr D. S. Fish, 

 Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, who in the company of Mr 



