PROCEEDINGS OF THE PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
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SUMMER SESSION, 188 6. 
The following Excursions were made :— 
May 20th. 
1. To Invermay. 
This, the first excursion of the season, was well attended. 
By the kind permission of Mr Grant, the banks of the 
River May within the policies of Invermay were investi¬ 
gated. Starting from Forteviot Station, the party pro¬ 
ceeded along the course of the river to Invermay. 
Between the station and the entrance lodge several 
interesting and rare plants were observed, including Poten- 
tilla reptans, Veronica montana, Chrysosplenium alterni- 
folium, Gerastium arvense, Stellaria nemorum, &c. Within 
the grounds of Invermay, several other interesting species 
were noticed, such as the Wood Betony (Stachys Betonica ); 
the curious little Moschatel ( Adoxa moschatellma), which 
is more abundant there than we have observed it elsewhere 
in Perthshire; and Veronica collina, with very small but 
intensely blue flowers. 
But though these and other plants were seen in flower, 
many species were only in bud, and hence the rocky banks 
of the river were not so beautiful as they would be in the 
course of a few weeks. For the same reason the number 
of plants observed was not so great as it would otherwise 
have been. When about half-way through Invermay the 
weather unfortunately broke, and the rest of the excursion 
was made in a pelting rain, which was not only extremely 
unpleasant, but what was worse, prevented so much work 
being done as would otherwise have been the case. 
Reaching Ardargie, the road to Forgandenny was taken, 
and the River Earn crossed at the Boat of Forgan, not, 
however, without several desertions from the party. The 
hill road (across Callerfountain and Craigie) gave the 
botanists an opportunity of adding several other note¬ 
worthy plants to the day’s list, including Viola hirta, V. 
lutea, Vicia lathyroides, Montia minor , Gerastium tetran- 
drum, and the rare mosses, Grimmia leucophcea and 
Eypnum rugosum. Setting aside the trifling disadvantage 
of having got wet to the skin, the members of the party all 
seemed to have eDjoyed very much the first excursion of 
the season. 
The number of flowering plants and ferns observed was 
about 160, so that the botanists bad no great cause of 
complaint. The zoologists were less fortunate, scarcely an 
insect having been seen; and the mollusca being repre¬ 
sented only by the common Helix nemoralis. 
June 12th. 
2. To Lake of Monteitli. 
This excursion was to have been in conjunction with the 
Stirling Natural History Society, but from the alteration 
of the date (necessitated by the state of the weather) none 
of the members of the Stirling Society were able to be 
present, which was very much regretted by the Perthshire 
Society. 
The Lake of Monteith, the beauty of which commands 
the admiration of all who visit it, had not before been 
visited by the Society, as it seems more inaccessible for a 
day's excursion from Perth than it really is. Thanks to 
the kind liberality with which the landed proprietors of 
Perthshire give facilities to the Society for the prosecution 
of its scientific pursuits, there were no difficulties in the 
way of going where specimens could be obtained and 
observations made. For this the Society is much indebted 
to Mr Orr Ewing, the present tenant, and Mr Erskine, 
the proprietor of Cardross, and to Admiral Erskine of 
Lochend. 
Starting from Port of Monteith Station, the road to the 
Great Wood of Cardross and Cardross Moss was taken. 
On the moss a number of interesting plants were found. 
Amongst these may be mentioned Carex paniculata, a 
large sedge not hitherto recorded from this part of the 
county, and remarkable for the large tussocks which it 
forms ; one of the long-leaved sundews ( Drosera Anglica), 
an interesting and pretty plant; Andromeda polifolia, 
one of the heaths, and a very rare plant in Perthshire; the 
lovely little cranberry ( Vaccinium oxycoccos), with its red 
flowers ; another sedge new to the district, Carex limosa, 
&c., &c. 
The lake was reached near its south-west corner, and its 
shore followed in an easterly direction. Not very much 
was found on its southern shore except some specimens of 
the flesh-coloured orchid ( Orchis incarnata) near Lochend. 
Passing Lochend, some time was devoted to the eastern 
shore of the lake, and here a number of interesting though 
not very rare plants were observed. Some of these deserve 
special notice. For example, the Water Lobelia (Lobelia 
