PLANTS OF SOME SOUTHERN SCOTTISH COUNTIES 41 



the solitary tuft of Woodsia ilvensis which still survives. May 

 it long continue. 



We then went to Peebles to walk eastwards along 

 the Tweed, and were rewarded by finding a grass (Festuca 

 keteropkylla) new to Scotland, but unfortunately in a position 

 which imperils its claim to indigenity, since planted shrubs 

 are near. Several new county records were made, but 

 probably these were mostly known to local botanists who 

 have omitted to record them. 



Galashiels was next visited in order to examine the 

 curious Australian and other casuals which Miss Ida 

 Hayward has investigated with such commendable industry. 

 These aliens necessarily vary from year to year, and the 

 low temperature of this somewhat sunless summer has not 

 been favourable to their growth. Thanks, however, to that 

 lady's kind hospitality, we were enabled to see the Australian 

 Rumex Brownii and Senecio lautus, with numerous European 

 species of Medicago and Erodium. In this neighbourhood I 

 saw a plant hitherto unfound by me in Scotland, namely, 

 Cratczgus oxyacanthoides, Thuill., which grew on the border 

 of the Duke of Buccleuch's policy of Bowhill. Here, of 

 course, its indigenity is open to question, since it occurred 

 with C. Oxyacantha in a planted hedge of considerable age 

 and size. 



Dryburgh Abbey and its vicinity were also seen ; but a 

 walk along the river near that place was summarily stopped 

 by the owner, to whom we had paid three shillings to see 

 the Abbey and its tomb of Scott. 



Ettrick Bridge End, with its interesting river bank and 

 marsh, was explored, and a visit made to the Rhymer's 

 Glen, Cauldshield's Loch, where a curious form of Hypcricum 

 humifusum grows, and to Faldonside. The veteran (Mr. W. B. 

 Boyd) botanist's beautiful garden was a source of great joy. 

 Never have I seen such splendid specimens of Sedges, 

 Carex Grahaini, C. atrofusca, C. fusca, C. punctata, C. alpina, 

 etc., all most luxuriant in growth, even in ordinary garden 

 soil. Here, too, we saw Erica Craufordii, which seems to 

 be only a very double-flowered form of E. Tetralix, and 

 X E. Stuarti, Linton, which can scarcely be a hybrid of 

 E. Mackayi and E. mediterraa, as its namer suggests, since 



