DR JOHNSTON ON THE (ENANTHB CHOCATA. 56 



Brodie of Ayton-mill, a very perfect urn, rather more than four inches 

 in height, and six in diameter, which was found by him, about fourteen 

 years ago, under a heap of stones on Bell's-hill, opposite St Abb's Head, 

 in the parish of Coldiugham. In shape, sculpture, and material, it agrees 

 nearly with those figured, and was full of a fine black ash. 



A Note relative to (Enanthe crocata. By Dr JOHNSTON. 



IN the appendix to my Flora, it is stated that no yellow juice could 

 be found in any part of our Berwickshire (Enanthe, and I was hence led 

 to conclude that it was more probably CE. apiifolia of the British Flora. 

 Mr Winch informs us that the same remark had been made in regard to 

 the plant near Newcastle ; and I have been well informed that the Edin- 

 burgh botanists were equally unsuccessful in finding any yellow juice in 

 their plant. Such being the fact, I was not a little surprised and pleased 

 to receive from Mr Dunlop, roots of CE. crocata, from the banks of the 

 Eye ; and from which, when broken, drops of a deep orange-yellow juice 

 immediately exuded. There was no doubt, then, that these belonged to 

 the true CE. crocata ; and as the leaves, &c. differed in no respect from 

 those I had previously examined, I was led to re-examime roots from 

 other stations, and the result has been a conviction that the species is 

 every where the same with us, although the juice is often very scanty, 

 and sometimes scarcely visible. Thus, roots dug on the Castlehills, 

 when broken, continued white for some time, but the fracture ultimately 

 assumed a yellowish hue, and when narrowly looked at, minute yellow 

 dots were seen scattered over the surface. The quantity of juice, and 

 its intensity of colour, probably depend on the nature of the station the 

 plant has selected, being deep-coloured when growing in drier, and pale, 

 or almost colourless, when in very wet places. 



Additions to the Flora of Berwick-upon- Tweed. 



(Continued from page 32.) 



DICOTYLEDONES. 



CENTUNCULUS MINIMUS Small Chaffweed. Near Lithtillum Loch, 

 Birgham Muir, Miss Hunter. 



GALIUM MOLLUOO, var. G. scabrum^ With. Bot. Arang. ii. 190. In 

 a field at Anton's Hill, Miss E. Bell. On the north side of the Hireel 

 Lough, and on the Hirsel grounds, Miss Hunter and Miss E. Bell. 



