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E. Oliver, Esq. Growing in the loch, on muddy spots, is the Yellow 

 "Water - Lily, Nuphar lutea, Callitriche autumnalis, Ceratophyllum — 

 probably demersum, Potamogeton pectinatus, &c. On the margin, 

 Cicuta virosa, Imperatoria Ostruthium, Mentha sativa, Lycopus europteus, 

 Scutellaria galericulata, Littorella lacustris, Alisma plantago, Scirpus 

 lacustris, and Salix pentandra. The Bay-leaved Willow, as seen growing 

 here, is a beautiful tree about 20 feet high, and the same in diameter 

 of branches ; the barren tree is the finest. There is a bog at the west end 

 of the loch, which is gay throughout the summer and autumn with a 

 great variety of showy plants, amongst which are Ranunculus Lingua, 

 Viola palustris, Valeriana dioica, Senecio aquaticus, Menyanthes tri- 

 foliata, Myosotis palustris, M. repens, M. csespitosa. Orchis maculata, 

 0. latifolia, 0. incarnata, (?) Narthecium ossifragum, Typha latifolia, 

 the common cotton-grass, and many species of Carex, one of which, 

 C. paniculata, is very useful when crossing the bog, especially if it 

 should be near any plant you wish to lift, as the large " tussacks" — 

 many of them being 2 feet above the level — keep you from sinking. 



On Lochtower fields I have found the following : Alyssum calycinum, 

 Fedia dentata, Anthemis arvensis, Centaurea cyanus — a fine annual, 

 once common but now becoming rare ; Carduus nutans, thought by 

 many to be the " Scotch Thistle," a title which it has a better claim to 

 than the cotton thistle, Onopordum Acanthium, which is not indigen- 

 ous to Scotland, although it is often sold by seedsmen as the true Scotch 

 Thistle, — it is most likely that the Scotch Thistle is merely a heraldic 

 and not a botanical species ; Calamintha Acinos, and Galeopsis versicolor. 



In some of the fields in the neighbourhood of Yetholm, Ranunculus 

 hirsutus is plentiful, and, on the hills, Viola lutea (about the time 

 that Viola lutea was first brought into notice as a bedding plant, I 

 observed an advertisement, advising intending purchasers to apply as 

 soon as possible, as the stock of it was limited, and in few hands, or 

 words to that efi'ect — the advertiser had never been amongst the Cheviots); 

 Scabiosa columbaria, Hieracium pallidum, and several forms of H. 

 murorum and H. vulgatum, of which, as Dr Johnston says, "AVe have 

 specimens which, like the distanced horse, can be placed nowhere." 



In the gravelly vale of Bowmont Water, above Yetholm, are the 

 following : Teesdalia nudicaulis, Trifolium arvense, Vicia Bobartii, 

 Antennaria margaritacea, along w4th two of our showiest and best- 

 known native plants, the Viper's Bugloss, Echium vulgare, and the 

 Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. In the damper places there are plenty 

 of Veronica anagallis, and ^Enanthe crocata. On the roadside, farther 

 up the water, there is abundance of Anchusa sempervirens, and strag- 

 gling plants of Chicory, Cichorium intybus. About six miles farther 

 west there is a station for Turritis glabra. 



