CXXvi PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Sorrow about half-way, and then struck up a burn which descends by 
a very rugged and precipitous course from King’s Seat Hill. Here 
some interesting plants occur, including Epilobium alsinefolium , 
Galium sylvestre and G. boreale , Saxifraga stellaris and S. hypnoides, 
Hymenophyllum unilateral, Hieracium Dewari , &c. A moss of 
which I took a small piece has been identified by Mr. Meldrum as 
Splachnum vasculosum , a species as yet gathered in very few places, 
and which, except here, does not occur below an altitude of about 
3000 feet, if I am not mistaken. In this place the altitude is about 
1400 feet only. We also found a moth, Larentia salicata , which, 
although it is not uncommon in the Highlands, we did not expect to 
see here. After exploring Maddy Moss, and searching in vain for 
Saxifraga Hirculus , we went by Skythorn Hill to Blackford Station, 
and thence returned to Perth. I have omitted mentioning several of 
the plants observed, as they were recorded in the account of last 
year’s excursion. 
The 18th of July was the day fixed for the Mountain Club excursion, 
the hill selected being Ben Challum, near Tyndrum. When we got 
to Tyndrum Station we were an hour and a half late, and it was 
raining very heavily. We therefore decided to return to Perth by a 
train which left in about half-an-hour; but, as just before that train 
arrived, the weather showed signs of improvement, we determined 
to make an excursion somewhere, and selected the abandoned Lead 
Mines for our explorations. Sketches of sections of these mines are 
in the Perthshire Geological case in the Museum, so that I need not 
attempt to describe them; but any one who has an hour to spare at 
Tyndrum might do worse than pay them a visit. Various alpine 
plants occur in the gorge, of which the mines form one side, but 
none of any particular rarity, the most interesting being perhaps 
Hymenophyllum unilaterale. A very bright flowered form of Vida 
septum was also noticed. On the rocks a rather local subalpine.moth, 
Lare?itia fiavicinctata , was not uncommon, and in the grassy places 
on the hillside our only alpine butterfly, Erebia Epiphron. Crossing 
over the ridge of the hill, we descended into the Coninish Glen, 
where a not inconsiderable quantity of Drosera anglica was observed, 
and ascended to some rocks called Craig Bhocan, which, however, 
produced nothing very remarkable. 
On the first of August the Mountain Club excursion came off, 
Ben Laoigh being the place selected instead of Ben Challum, the 
general look of which as seen during the previous excursion was not 
inviting. Although we left Perth at 7.45 a.m. it was 1 p.m. before we 
left the train about 8 miles west of Tyndrum and commenced to 
ascend the hill. Since the botany of Ben Laoigh has been described 
in the accounts of excursions of former years I need say no more 
than that most of the interesting and rare plants for which the hill is 
celebrated were observed. We were not fortunate in the weather, as 
most of the time we spent on the mountain was misty and rainy, with 
the result that some of us at least, when we got back to Perth, which 
was not until after midnight, were still wet through. 
During the day the Annual Meeting of the Mountain Club was 
held. The following was the poem written for the occasion :— 
