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coloured flowers. The latter variety has been introduced into gardens 

 not unworthily. — The herb was, in former times, esteemed for its 

 vulnerary virtues : 



" The Yarrow wherewithal! he stops the wound-made gore," 



sings Drayton ; and it is esteemed yet by our herbalists, who gather 

 it in considerable quantities. They give it, however, only in ill-de- 

 fined stomach complaints. 



301. Chrysanthemum LEUCANTHEMTJM. ?3ig33aiiSu: ®)ivf^f : 

 (^y't^t ?0ai£il). Dry pastures and way-sides, common; and especially 

 abundant in limestone pastures, which are often white in summer 

 with its large showy flowers. It is also common, in corn-fields, 

 in the heart of the Lammermuirs, where they call it the i^orsif? 

 (©oiuan. June-Aug. 



302. C. SEGETUM. Corn ilKarwgoltt : ^ttloio (ilotilan. In corn- 

 fields in a few scattered localities. B. In fields below Lamberton 

 near the Coalery ; on Fairneyside farm ; and near Gunsgreen house. 

 I have seen it in fields near St. Abb's-head ; and Mr. Henderson 

 finds it abundant among the corn in some of the fields at Greenhead 

 in the parish of Coldinghara. In fields about Craigswalls, parish of 

 Edrom, G. Henderson. At Fireburn mill near Coldstream, R. 

 Embleton. In the vicinity of Gordon, on reclaimed moorish soil, 

 abundant. Dr. F. Douglas. — This weed, "of glorious feature," was 

 once so abundant, that statutes were made, by the Scottish parliament, 

 to ensure its eradication ; and to preserve itself it has now no place 

 of refuge but the garden. June-Aug. 



303. Pyrethrum PARTHENiuM = Matricaria parthenium. Jftf 

 ficrfeiu: dfeatijcr-fooli) or ^cati)cr-fiin, a corrupt spelling of " feuille," 

 viz. the plant with a feather-like leaf. — Waste grounds about all our 

 old villages and homesteads. Abundant and luxuriant in Hornclilf 

 dene. July. It is used as a remedy for the " Felon" of cows. The 

 following was an old Berwickshire cow-doctor's favourite prescription : 

 " Gie the cow a handful of Feather-fully, a handful of rue, a handful 

 of peppermint, and half a bottle o' wine, and be gude till her." J, 

 Hardy. 



We had taken an early tea with some friends in the cool parlour of 

 their summer lodgings in Ilorncliffe. The day had been very warm, 

 and the village lay almost smoking amid its styes and manured cur- 

 tains, — dull and dirty as the large-dugged sow that lies there in the 

 sun, breathing forth a genial air, and almost grunting pleasure when, 

 with a lazy eifort, she wrinkles her sides, and shakes her dewlapt ears, 

 to drive off the crowd of bloated blue-bottle flies that, thus disturbed, 

 buzz their short circuit and again settle in the filth. The sun, then, 

 had advanced somewhat to the west, but the warmth had scarcely 

 abated, when we merrily left the village, nor had well passed from its 

 precincts, until we had gained the river's bank, and were halted per- 



