38 RESEDA. VIOLA. 



59. Reseda luteola. ©elloto^iDCctJ : ^dloiu^ocfect. — Waste 

 grounds, gravelly pastures, and in the beds of our burns, common. 

 Abundant on the banks of the Whiteadder ; and often very luxuriant 

 on the scaurs of our deans. About Coldingham Priory plentiful, 

 where a tradition still lingers that the herb was used by the liuns in 

 dyeing the woollen stuflPs they had spun. Summer. 



60. CiSTUS HELiANTHEMUM = Helianthemum vulgare. The 

 Yellow Cistus. — A common plant in our district, adorning, with its 

 bright and gay blossoms, gravelly and rocky banks in deans, many 

 parts of our sea-banks, and covering dry elevated ridges and crags. 

 It is very sensitive to atmospherical changes. Jane-Aug. 



61. Viola palustris. In turfy meadows and boggy ground, 

 especially in alder copses, common. June-July. 



2. V. odorata. Cijc Wioiti. — B. Banks of the Eye and Ale, 

 abundant near their confluence, A. A. Carr. Under sycamores above 

 the Blue-stane ford, G. Henderson. — It is not indigenous with us, 

 but I have seen it naturalized in several places in woods, and under 

 hedges. Spring. 



G2. V. HiRTA. Not uncommon in our district. — B. It is plentiful 

 on the banks above New-mills, or, as it was spelled in 1683, New- 

 milne, and on the banks of the Whiteadder below Chirnside. It 

 occurs in equal plentifulness in the ravine at Ross, and on the banks 

 to the north of Burnmouth ; and on those of Ale-water. It is found 

 on the banks of the Tweed at Milne-Graden, and indeed wherever 

 the banks are covered with brushwood and old herbage. — D. Wooded 

 banks below Norham Castle. — April-May. 



63. V. CANiNA = V. sylvatica, Bab. Man. p. 35. OTtttJ S^t'olet : 

 %\)t little JSlucsbcll. — Common everywhere from the sea-side bank 

 to the open muirs. It may, perhaps, be partial to hedge-bottoms 

 and to deans with a northern exposure, but it does not shun the 

 sunniest brae nor even spots bare of all herbage. A great favourite 

 with children ; and should any become, at a later period, a botanist, 

 he will be interested with the discussion as to its right and proper 

 name in science. See the Botanical Gazette, vol. i. ; and the Phy- 

 tologist for 1849. 



64. V. LUTE A. This violet is found on the entire range of the 

 Cheviots and of the Lammermuirs wherever the sward is free of rank 

 herbage or heather ; and hence it is found especially on the green tops 

 of the hills that are occupied with the remains of the camps of the 

 ancient British people. It grows on the steep banks above Fast- 

 Castle, and on those of Coldingham lough. It occupies the British 

 camp at Erneshevigh ; and survives those that were on Ewieside, 

 Buncle-edge, and Preston-cleugh. It grows in the trenches of an old 



12. Reseda lutea. In 1830 T found two patches on Spittal links, where 

 the plant has not been again observed. Dr. R. Dunlop found specimens 

 either of it or of R. fruticulosa, on the ballast behind the Pier in 1832, but 

 there also it passed away quickly. 



