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leaf, are troublesome to the angler, but they shelter the nests of many 

 birds ; and the early flowers are much visited by bees. 



291. T. FARFARA.— ?^or£ic4joof : Coltsfoot: iSidjplaaic — evi- 

 dently a mispronunciation of the Latin name. — Common in moist 

 clay soils. March, April. 



292. Aster TRiPOLiTJM. Salt marshes. B. and D. Sides of the 

 Tweed below Castle-hills, and on Yarrow-haugh. D. On the coast 

 beyond Goswick links. " On the strand at the ostium of Warn rivulet, 

 by the ford, near Budle," Wallis. Aug., Sept. 



293. Bellis perennis. Hone's Every Day Book, ii. p. 286. — 

 Ci^f J3ai£ii) : Cije (J^oluait. — In former times (1538) the Bellis, as 

 Turner informs us, was called in Northumberland the Banwort, and 

 the name Daisy was applied to a scarlet flower. The passage is as 

 follows : " There are twoo kyudes of Dases, one wyth a reed floure 

 which groweth in the gardynes, and an other whyche groweth abrode 

 in euery grene and hyghe way : the Northern men call thys herbe a 

 banwurt because it helpeth bones, to knyt agayne." — This is good 

 authority, but I cannot learn that Banwort is ever now so applied. 

 And Gowan is usuall}- said to mean a yellow or golden coloured flower, 

 which the Bellis is only secondarily, and the name may be derived 

 from the Celtic guen or guener, fair or beautiful, which the Bellis is 

 primarily and pre-eminently. It does not flower "in every season 

 fresh and fair," as a pet poetess chooses to afiirm ; but chiefly so in 

 May, as Ramsay has properly and poetically told us : 



" Twa youthfu' shepherds on the (gnluaniS lay, 

 Tenting their flocks ae bonny morn of May." 



and again : — 



" while 'tis May, 

 Gae pou the <@atdan in its prime, 

 Before it wither and decay." 



294. SoLiDAGO virgaurea. Deans and on heaths, but it likes 

 the shelter of brushwood. Common. July-Sept. 



295. Inula dysenterica = Pulicaria dysenterica. Boggy places, 

 rare. B. Dodd's-well ; and on Castle-hills, in both stations abun- 

 dantly within my remembrance, but it has been recently eradicated 

 or nearly so. It may reappear. In a field by the willows in 

 Tibby Fowler's glen. By the sea-side near Lamberton old coal pit, 

 A. A. Carr. Banks of the Leet about \ a mile above Coldstream, 

 R. C. Embleton. On the Tweed above Horndean burn ; and on Holy- 

 well haugh near Lady-kirk, W. Baird. This haugh was the place of 

 meeting for trying the claims of the various competitors for the crown 

 of Scotland, June 2, 1291. See Ridpath's Bord. Hist. p. 174. — 

 " The place where the assembly met was Holywell-haugh, and it is 

 described in the record as a green plain in the open air, near the 

 river Tweed, opposite to Norham castle, within the parish of a town 

 called Upsethington, belonging to the diocese of St. Andrews in 



