32 CORYDALIS. — NASTURTIUM. 



yellow juice with the yellow hue of the patient was here the index to 

 the remedy. Hence also the vulgar use of the inner bark of the Bar- 

 berry in the same disease. See Hardy in Hist. Berw. N. Club, ii. 

 p. 12 ; and Notes and Queries, iii. p. 320 and 405. The skilful in 

 herbs have great faith in the doctrine of "Signatures," for Providence, 

 they say, has thus chosen to disclose the occult virtues of its gifts to 

 those who can read the mystical signs and sympathies. And thus 

 Thomas Fuller pleads in favour of the belief: — " Surely Nature would 

 not have made it such a hypocrite, to hang out so fair a sign, except 

 some guest of quality were lodged therein ; I mean, it would not 

 appear so beautiful to the eye, except some concealed worth were 

 couched therein ; inclining me to believe that the \irtue thereof is 

 not yet fully discovered." 



26. CoRYDALis CLAvicuLATA. — B. In Penmaushiel wood, in 

 Pease-dene, and Edmonsdene abundantly, climbing elegantly amongst 

 whins, briers and hazel-shaws. Banks of the Dye near Longforma- 

 cus. Rev. T. Brown. — D. In Longridge dean. — N. In the loose and 

 coarse debris on the sides of many of the Cheviot hills, sparingly. — 

 Summer. 



27. FuMARiA CAPREOLATA. — Hedgc-bottoms, not uncommon. 

 There is a variety distinguished by having white flowers. — July- 

 Oct. 



28. F. OFFICINALIS, var. a and /3, Amott in Hooker's Brit. Fl, 

 (1830) i. 317. — ^mnitorj). — Corn-fields and cultivated ground, par- 

 tial to a turnip soil. — The var. /3 so much resembles F. capreolata as 

 scarcely to be distinguished excepting by its technical character. — 

 June-Oct, — The Fumariee, like the Poppies, hasten to occupy newly 

 turned-up soils. They flourish best in autumn, when they become 

 among the most ornamental of our late flowers. But hence to con- 

 clude that they are alien in origin is surely unsafe. The Corydalis 

 has a superior "elegant and exotic appearance," and its nativeness is 

 unquestioned. 



29. Cheiranthus cheiri. SSSHatL^floiDtr. — B. On the ruins of 

 the castles of Berwick, Edrington, and Hume. — D. Norham castle : 

 Holy-island prioiy. — R. Kelso Abbey. 



" Decks the rough castle's rifted tower." 



I cannot coincide with those who consider this to be a naturalized 

 plant. Whence was it brought ? It occupies similar habitats through- 

 out Europe. It is a suggestive flower, and marks the era of the de- 

 cline and fall of the rude feudal times. 



30. Nasturtium officinale. TOatnvfrcsiiS or ^trit. — Com- 

 mon in ditches and water-courses. — June-Sept. — Gathered in spring 

 for salad, but eaten rather from a behef in its antiscorbutic virtues 

 than from its agreeableness or superiority to the salads of the garden. 



31. N. sylvestre. — Sides of the Tweed from West-Ord upwards 

 to Birgham haugh, in many places on a gravel soil. — Aug. 



32. N. terrestre. — Margins of the Tweed from West-Ord to 

 Norham, sparingly. — B. In the staaks at the Cow-port : Lithtillum 



