40 POLYGALA. — SILENE. 



and as soon as the first rises from the stigma, the other covers it ; 

 the third succeeds hke the two first, but as soon as it has risen, the 

 two last come both at once." Willdenow. 



69. PoLYGALA VULGARIS. ;IHtlh^tDort. — Lindley's Ladies' Bo- 

 tany, ii. 50. — Common on our heaths and old grassy banks in deans, 

 with blue, white, and pink blossoms. Very pretty. June-Aug. — 

 Willdenow's i-emark — " apud nos nunquam fere erecta, sed procum- 

 bens," is strictly applicable to the plant as found with us. 



70. DiANTHUs DELTOiDES. OTliltJ ^tiife. — B. Commou in the 

 west of our district, as about Nenthorne, Stitchell, and Smailholme. 

 Of rarer occurrence in the eastern parts of Berwickshire, but grows 

 plentifully at St. Helen's Chapel*, and is to be found about Grant' s- 

 House and in some parts of Houndwood plantations. Mr. Hardy 

 gathers it on the sea-banks at the foot of Dunglass dean ; and it 

 occurs in Lumsdene dean, and on the banks of the Ale near Linthill. 

 — N. On Chapel -hill at Belford ; and frequent in the vicinity of 

 Wooler. — R. Plentiful about Yetholm. All the habitats appear to 

 be in the greywacke or porphyritic portion of our district. — On 

 Blinkbonnie hill, Nenthorne, plants are occasionally found with pure 

 white flowers. Dr. F. Douglas. Summer. 



71. SiLENE iNFLATA. Wii)itt €ock\t. — In com-fields of a light 

 soil, wastes and road-sides, common. A hirsute variety occasionally 

 occurs, which, Sir W. J. Hooker says, maintains its character under 

 cultivation. The plant is known to some of our country people by 

 the name of Coiu^pap^, evidently derived from the shape and size of 

 the turgid seed-capsules. Summer. 



72. S. MARiTiMA = S. amoena. Light. Fl. Scot. 227.— OTttdjf^'* 

 Ci)imblc^, the name derived from the notable calyx. Common on 

 our sea-coast, and highly ornamental, flowering from June to Sep- 

 tember. " On the sea beach in stony places frequent, as at Fast 

 Castle, on the coast of Berwickshire," Lightfoot. Dunsdale near the 



* For a description and views of this interesting place see Carr's Cold- 

 ingham, p. 98-103. — Mr. Alexander Allan Carr was the foiu'th son of Robert 

 CaiT, druggist, and a burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed. He was born 19th 

 May, 1811. Educated in the grammar-school of his native town, he sub- 

 sequently studied medicine in Edinburgh ; and, in 1832, he began the prac- 

 tice of his profession in Ayton. Here he occupied the leisure winch is the 

 portion of the } oung practitioner, in the study of botany and of the antiqui- 

 ties of his neighbourhood ; and some of the results were embodied in con- 

 tributions to the Border Magazine and Border Tales, edited by Mr. John 

 Mackay Wilson. But his materials became at length sufficient to enable 

 Mr. Carr to undertake " a History of Coldingham Priory," which was pub- 

 lished in 1836. The volume was unfortunately " got uj) " in an unattract- 

 ive form, but otherwise the book is a good book, and creditable to the 

 author's talents and industry. It di*ew notice on him, and he accepted an 

 appointment as assistant-surgeon in the Navy, 15th April 183/. He con- 

 tinued in the service until symptoms of Phthisis pulmonalis appeared ; and 

 he died, under his paternal roof, Dec. 20th, 1839. 



