104 BIDENS. — ACHTLLKA. 



Scotland." See also Chambers' Pict. of Scotland, p. 7. — D. Holy 

 Island links, confined to a small spot, Dr. F. Douglas. Aug., Sept. 

 In many seasons this plant does not flower with us. 



290. BiDENS TRIPARTITA. Marshy places, very rare. N. By 

 the side of a ditch near the brewery in the village of Chatton, Jas. 

 Mitchell. 



297. B. CERNUA. Very rare. B. Pond near Girtrigg on the farm 

 of Ladyflat, in the parish of Langton, Rev. Thos. Brown. Aug., 

 Sept. 



298. Anthemis arvensis. Waste ground and new pastures, 

 abundantly when it occurs, but its distribution is irregular, and its 

 continuance in any one locality rather uncertain. B. Mr. Hardy 

 finds it " in fields near Penmanshiel ;" Mr. W. Dunlop showed me 

 it so growing at Mayfield ; and it grows very fine in cultivated fields 

 at Monnienut, — all localities on, or trenching on, the Lammermuirs. 

 In the How-of-the-Merse Mr. Henderson tells me it occurs on the 

 site of the ancient "crofts" of Little-Billy, on the farm of Billy- 

 Mains ; and I find it near Paxton and Scotch-Spittal. It came up 

 in profusion by the side of the railway, when first made, below 

 Houndwood; and again on the farm of Auchencrow-Mains, G. Hen- 

 derson. Near Dryburgh, Professor Balfour. — D. Abundant in the 

 village of Norham, on the green which runs down from the market 

 cross. Near Cheswick Buildings ; and about the inn on Doddington 

 moor, N. July. 



16. Anthemis nobilis. Cl^amomilc. This had become naturalized 

 on the W. bank above Chirnside bridge, but as I have not seen it there 

 of late years, I presume recent improvements have removed the plant. 

 It grows almost wild in many of the garden plots of our hinds, and 

 in the gardens of the master, for chamomile tea is justly deemed a 

 good stomachic ; and to lie down upon a bed of chamomile is a cure 

 for headache. Curiously some believe that toads suck their venom 

 from the Chamomile, — a belief which has arisen from the fact that 

 the reptile is often seen creeping about its beds. It is a common 

 remark that the more Chamomile is tramped upon, the better it 

 grows ; and this notion is often brought into requisition by the old 

 divines. J. Hardy. 



299. Achillea ptarmica. Common in muirish pastures, and 

 on roads and sides of lanes through fields of a poor soil. July, Aug. 



300. A. millefolium. iJiMilIfotl : ^avroiu : f^im'flrcWtaJjfK 

 graiSiS : C]^oii^ant(4cabctJ Clobcr : OTiltJ 3Pfppfr. — Pastures, wastes, 

 and way-sides, very common, varying with white and pink and rose- 



26. Anthemis cotula. This is mentioned as a common weed by Bailley 

 and Cully in their Agricultural Survey of Northumberland ; and from the 

 " Botanist's Guide " it would seem as if it were far- from rai-e either in that 

 county or in Durham; but it has never once occurred to us on the Eastern 

 Borders. 



