46 RADIOLA. HYl'llRirUM. 



olden time, to procure their requisite supplies of linen ! — " Coma 

 ante florescentiam nutat." 



102. Radiola millegrana. Damp sandy places, rare. D. 

 Ancroft moor. — B. On the farm of Dulaw, A. A. Carr. Birgham 

 muir ; and on Caverton Back-edge. Summer. 



103. ]\Ialva moschata. This fine plant is met with scattered 

 over the district, growing on waste grounds by the sides of our rivers 

 and burns, as e. g. by the Tweed and Whiteadder throughout their 

 courses. It is abundant in the Hirsell wood on the banks of the 

 Leet ; on the Eden near Newton-Don ; and in Langton woods. — B. 

 With perfectly white flowers, at the foot of Brockholes'-dean burn ; 

 and in the lane between Auchincraw and the ruins of Billy-Castle, 

 G. Henderson. Aug. 



104. M. SYLVESTRis. fHaiDfi : jilalloiu^. — Waste places and 

 road-sides near villages, frequent, but capricious in its distribution. 

 It has been planted in many of its present localities. The variety 

 alba-fora, Don Gard. Diet. i. 462, besides the white flowers, is di- 

 stinguished by a peculiar shade in the green of the leaves, and by a 

 general delicacy of habit. I have seen it only near the village of B. 

 Preston, where the three Malvae grow together. — June-Aug. The 

 leaves boiled make a favourite poultice in rural medicine ; and a de- 

 coction of the herb still retains a place in our Pharmacopceias. The 

 flowers are showy and not vulgar. Our children pull oif the capsules, 

 and, under the name of Cijffi^f^, use them sometimes as ornaments 

 in their play-houses ; and sometimes they string them into bracelets ; 

 and sometimes they eat them. In connection with this custom there 

 is a beautiful passage in Dr. Lindley's Ladies' Botany, i. p. 86. 



10.7. M. rotundifolia. Waste ground near villages and onsteads, 

 more especially near the coast, not uncommon. June-Sept. 



6. Tilia europsea. Eljc l.intf^Crff. Don Gard. Diet. i. 552. — 

 In avenues and plantations. July. 



7. T. grandifolia. Ci)f Himt^Crff. — Intermingled with the pre- 

 ceding, and only distinguished as a species by the botanist, who, in 

 this instance, is probably less correct than the planter. — According 

 to the Rev. Dr. Walker, the Lime-tree " does not appear to have 

 been planted in Scotland before the reign of Charles the ii." 



106. Hypericum quadrangultjm. Deans, moist meadows, 

 banks of ditches and rivulets, frequent. July. 



107. H. DUBiuM. Copses, not uncommon. Mr. Babington 

 showed me the variety /3. maculatum growing on the banks of the 

 Tweed above the Chain-Bridge. July. 



108. H. PERFORATUM. Don Gard. Dict. i. 608. — ^atut^3)o]^n'^* 

 iuort. — Copses, rough places on river-banks, and hedge-banks, fre- 

 quent. July-Aug. 



109. H. HUMTFusuM. Gravelly pastures and heathy places, not 

 rare. It grows abundantly in the fields at St. Abb's-head. July. 



