BARBAREA. — CARDAMINE. 33 



loch, Dr. R. D. Thomson. — R. Bowmont water above Yethohn, Dr. 

 F. Douglas. — June-July. — Its former favourite locality in the Tap- 

 pee below Calf-hill is now occupied by the Railway-station. " Sic 

 transit." 



33. Barbarea vulgaris. In the bed of all our rivers and burns. 

 Abundant near the mouth of the Whiteadder. — Summer. — A double 

 variety is frequent in gardens, usually with yellow, sometimes with 

 white flowers. 



34. Cardamine sylvatica =: C. flexuosa. With. Bot. Arrang. 

 iii. p. 5/8. — In moist sandy ground and in crevices of mossy rocks 

 wetted by the spray of dropping springs or waterfalls, in all our 

 shaded deans. N. In Dunsdale it ascends undwarfed to nigh the 

 summit of Cheviot. 



35. C. HiRSUTA. Bab. Man. p. 22. — Moist meadows. — April- 

 June. — I suspect that this is a rare species with us. I have seen 

 specimens gathered on the rocks near the slate quarry at Aldcambus- 

 W. -Mains by Mr. J. Hardy, who finds it also at the Black-Craig by 

 the side of the Pease-burn ; and in Lumsdene dean. 



36. C. PRATENSTs. |^mfe!S : ^pinfesl or Joog^siptnfe^. — Moist 

 meadows and rough bogs, common enough yet, but much less common 

 than we remember it to have been, and tile-draining may before long 

 make it rare. — May-June. — "A secret frae you, dear bairn! what 

 secret can come frae you, but some bit waefu' love story, enough to 

 make the ptnkfi an' the ewe gowan blush to the very lip ? " Brownie 

 of Bodspeck, ch. 11. 



" Or can our flowers, at ten hours bell. 

 The Gowan or the ^ptnft excell." — R. Ferguson. 



Our children, with whom the plant is a favourite, call it also Cucfeoo* 

 flolDCr, because the Cuckoo often drops what they believe to be its 

 frothy spittle on the leaves ; and not, as Benjamin Stillingfleet says, 

 because it blows when the bird begins its call, viz. about tbe 20th of 

 April. Select Works, ii. p. 373. Children are not sufficiently ob- 

 servant to notice these coincidences. — In Roxburghshire Dr. F. 

 Douglas tells me it is called the jHa^^flotoor. It is the Lady-smock 

 of our English poets : 



" and some to grace the show 

 Of Lady-smocks most white, do rob each neighbouring mead. 

 Wherewith their looser locks most curiously they braid." 



Drayton. 



In autumn little bunches of leaves may be seen often to grow from 

 the upper surface of the old but perfectly fresh leaves, each bunch 

 throwing out a radical fibre that creeps along in search of a soil proper 

 to take root in. These parasitical bunches are young plants, and 



6. Nasturtium prsecox. — B. In a grass field near Swinton-hill, J. Hardy. 

 -R. On the Tweed near Kelso, Dr. F. Douglas. 



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