20 MR HARDY ON BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES. 



now divided into three or four farms. It appears to have derived its 

 name from the abundance of its natural productions while in an uncul- 

 tivated state. These seem to have been the various species of crowfoot 

 which, in the border counties of England and Scotland, are named the 

 yellow gowan, gowlon, or goUande. That the gowan and gowlon are 

 convortiblo terms, will appear from the preceding observations. The 

 use of the English mode of spelling the word may be accounted for 

 from the political relations of the town of Berwick and its dependent 

 demesnes, having for the last three hundred and sixty years been more 

 closely allied with England than with the northern division of the 

 island, of which it once formed the principal port. And that a large 

 extent of ground, uncultivated for a series of years, should, by the 

 abundance and peculiarities of its native vegetation, give occasion for 

 popular notice, will not appear wonderful if we consider how attrac- 

 tive old pastures, at different periods of the season, are with those 

 plants to which such a descriptive and appropriate term as the yellow 

 gowlon has been assigned. First, the dandelion,* with its bright epau- 

 lettes ; then the various buttercups in succession, the bulbosus, the acris, 

 and the repens ; and, finally, the corn-marigold with ** targe of gold," 

 fi-aught with the richest hues of light, and, by the sun's bright influ- 

 ence, tinted with colours almost as gorgeous as those lighted up by his 

 own setting beams, glowing through the clouds that canopy his setting 

 — enliven all the fields — inspiring in the lover of nature, awake to 

 every genial impulse, sentiments vivid as their own bright woof, and 

 fresh and fascinating as the fancies of life's " young dream." 



J. H. 



List of Berwickshire Coleoptera. By Mr George DuNLOP.f 



Cecindela campestris. Dromius fasciatus. 



Dromius agilis. Lamprias chlorocophalus. 



4-maculatus. Clivina fossor. 



linearis. collaris. 



* The Leontodon is one of various similar syngenesious plants, to which 

 Dr Jamicson states the term gowan is applied in some farts of Scotland. 



t This list embraces only such species as could be named with r eitainty ; and 

 is tlierefore confessedly in(o:nplete. 



