POTERIUM. ROSA. /J 



Fields at Lui'denlaw near Kelso, Dr. F. Douglas. About the base of 

 the Eildon hills. Sept. 



193. PoTERiUM SANGUisoRBA. Bumet. — B. Mr. James Mitchell, 

 during an excursion of the Club, 19th May 1833, picked a single 

 specimen on the bank above Coldingham lough. This was the first 

 intimation of the plant being a native of Berwickshire. Several years 

 afterwards it was found abundantly by Professor Balfour near St. 

 Abb's Head, between the promontory and the Pease dean. Bot. 

 Gazette, i. p. 78. And, at a later date, INIr. Hardy discovered it on 

 the sea-banks at Burnmouth, where the Club has seen it growing in 

 profusion over a large extent of ground. — N. On Spindlestone hills. 

 June. *^ 



194. Agrimonia eupatoria. Sgrtmoni). — Borders of fields 

 and on dry banks, common. June, July. — The dried herb is used 

 as a sort of medicinal astringent tea. The flowers have a delicious 

 smell, something between that of the orange and lemon. 



195. Rosa sPiNosissiMA. With. Bot. Arrang. ii. 465. — Var. a. 

 inermis ; Flower-stalks and fruit smooth : — /j. Hystrix ; Flower- 

 stalks and fruit bristly : — y. ciphiana ; Flowers red. — W\)t Cat* 

 i)cp. — Sandy sea-banks, deans, and hedges. The only Rose found 

 wild in Holy Island. The two first varieties are common, and from 

 them are derived the numerous varieties of the Scotch Rose cultivated 

 in gardens. The variety with rose-coloured or pink flowers, the 

 flower-stalks hispid, and the leaflets obovate-retuse, grows among 

 whins in Bushiel dean, J. Hardy; and in the Snail' s-cleugh, a rapine 

 which divides Berwickshire from East-Lothian above Craneshaws. 

 It is the Rosa ciphiana of Sir Robert Sibbald ; and its beauty seduced 

 him to sing its praise in a Sapphic ode more distinguished for length 

 than for poetry. See Scot. Illustr. p. ii. lib. i. p. 61. June, July. 



196. R. GRACILIS. B. In a hedge at Lamberton Shiels. June. 



197. R. Sabini. B. On a bank close by the railway at Covey- 

 heugh near Reston Station, intermixed with R. spinosissima. June. 

 — This and the preceding constitute the R. Sabini of Mr. Borrer. 

 See Hooker's Brit. Flora (1830), p. 229. — Resembles R. spinosissima 

 in habit and mode of growth, but it is a larger plant with larger 

 leaves. 



198. R. viLLosA. In deans and by water-courses, not uncommon. 

 A variety with smaller flowers than usual, and of a white colour, 

 grows on the road-side between Berrington and Barmoor. In habit 

 this variety closely resembles R. csesia. 



199. R. TOMENTOSA. The TOtlt) liosf, and, in some parts of 

 Berwickshire, the OTlifO ^iucft^Jarcrf, for the perfume of the leaves 

 emulates faintly that of its cultivated relative. Common in hedges 

 and deans, 



" Where the Rose in all her pride. 

 Paints the hollow dingle side." 



It has either rose-coloured or white flowers ; and the variety named 



