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believe the plant to be one of those original attendants on the cereals 

 which have been nearly eradicated by the cleanliness of modern agri- 

 culture. 



53. T. BURSA-PASTORis = Capsel la bursa-pastoris. ^i)epj)erl<'£{ 

 purge : EatJtcg'^piirsicg. — A common weed in waste grounds and on 

 road-sides, flowering during the entii'e summer. Subject to great 

 variety, but the variations may be reduced to two, viz. (1) radical 

 leaves forming a rosette on the ground and more or less deeply pin- 

 natifid : (2) leaves all cauline and entire. The latter is found prin- 

 cipally in gardens. — Cage birds are fond of the seed, and the weed 

 is often gathered for their use.f— " Children have a sort of game" 

 with the seed-pouch. They hold it out to their companions, inviting 

 them 'to take a baud o' that.' It immediately cracks, and then 

 follows a triumphant shout — ' You 've broken your mother's back.' " 

 J. Hardy. -^ 



54. CocHLEARiA OFFICINALIS. ^cuvb^'^VtiS^. — Sea-bauks of 

 Berwickshire, very abundantly. — D. Hudshead, Holy-Island. — N. 

 Near the summit of Cheviot in the Henhole and Brizzle. — R. On 

 Melrose Abbey. . April-May. 



55. C. DANiCA. — B. Sea-banks between Dulaw and Redheugh, 

 J. Hardy. — D. On the Pinnacles, one of the Fame islands. Dr. Jas. 

 Thompson. — I have been often puzzled with specimens whether to 

 refer them to this or the preceding species. In the ' British Flora ' 

 they are made varieties merely of one species. See also Withering's 

 Bot. Arrang. iii. p. 572. 



56. Senebiera coronopus. — Waste grounds. — B. About Ber- 

 wick and Coldingham. — D. About Spittal and Holy-Island. — R. At 

 Haddon village abundant. Dr. F. Douglas. June-Aug. 



57. Cakile maritima. Sea Rocket. — D. Sea-shore from Spit- 

 talouth wards ; and on the shores of Holy-Island, plentiful. — B. On 



the shore at Coldingham bay, and below the Pease-dean. June- 

 Sept. — A cosmopolite. " Habitat in Europse, Asise, Africae, Ame- 

 ricae maritimis." Willdenow. 



58. Crambe maritima. ^Ctvl^alc. — B. On the shore by Fast- 

 Castle in Berwickshire, Dr. Parsons. " It formerly grew so plenti- 

 fully on the shore in that neighbourhood, that the farmer of Lums- 

 dean, Mr. Anderson, used to transplant it into his garden for culinary 

 purposes. In 1830, I observed a few plants of it growing on Lums- 

 dean shore." A. A. Carr, Hist. Coldingham, p. 188. 



9. Caiuelina sativa. Rarely a stray specimen may be gathered in our 

 district amongst corn, but it has uo fixed station. 



10. Cochlearia armoracia =: Armoracia rusticana. Horse-Radish. Cul- 

 tivated in gardens, and hence occasionally escaping to a piece of waste 

 ground that may be lying hard by. 



11. Iberis amara. Candy-tuft. I have gathered it in the bed of Ale 

 water; and it has been found by Miss Bell at Coldstream and near Laynal 

 church, having sprung from seed carried from the garden. 



