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311. G. ULiGiNOSUM. Wet sandy places, particularly where water 

 has stood souring during winter, common. It prefers spots from 

 which the turf has heen pared off to cap stone-dikes, &c. Aug, 



312. G. RECTUM. On muirs, and in thickets and pastures on a 

 sandy soil, frequent. It is common, and of good size about the base of 

 the Eildon hills ; and abounds to excess on Galtheugh, a steep ravine 

 opposite Old Melrose. There it has many companion weeds that in- 

 fest poor soils ; — Myosotis versicolor et arveusis, Rumex acetosella. 

 Prunella vulgaris, Sherardia arvensis, Bartsise, and Echium vulgare of 

 small size. The locality conmiands a most lovely prospect ; and is 

 further interesting as having been, when a school-boy, the favourite 

 haunt of the late well-known minister of Wells-Street Chapel, London, 

 — the Rev. Dr. Alex. Waugh. He was a native of Berwickshire, born 

 at East Gordon on the 16th of August, 1/54. The boy was wont to 

 steal away early and oft to Gaitheugh, " for ages noted as the best 

 cover for foxes in all the country. When asked, on his return at 

 breakfast-time, where he had been, his answer generally was, ' I have 

 been seeing foxy, and hearing the linnets.' His taste for the beauties 

 of nature was born with him, and constituted a leading feature of his 

 mind. It was at Gaitheugh that, one morning, he fell from a tree, 

 when climbing for a gled's nest, and lay for some time insensible, no 

 one being with him." Memoir, 3rd edit. p. 24. 



313. G. DioicuM = Antennaria dioica. ^ooV'dBbtvln^tinQ. 

 Grows in patches, and scattered, on every muir in our district, — a 

 pretty and interesting plant. June, July. 



314. Senecio vulgaris. @roiintJ)£(fl : <^iuntJi)?^lDanotD. — 

 Wastes and gardens, everywhere. Summer and autumn. Gathered 

 for cage birds. 



315. S. viscosus. On waste grounds near onsteads, on naked 

 spots in woods, and on banks in deans, not uncommon, and scattered 

 over the district. July-Oct. 



316. S. SYLVATicus, Sandy soils. Common in fir plantations, on 

 whin banks, and rubbish cast out from quarries. July. In many 

 places on moors, when whins are dug up or burnt, this plant springs 

 up in very great profusion, where formerly not a specimen was to be 

 seen. It also appears in woods when trees are cut down, or brushwood 



27. Doronicum pardalianches. In Gerarde's Herbal we are told that this 

 rare plant " hath been found and gathered in the cold mountains of North- 

 umberland, by Dr. Penny, lately of London, deceased, a man of much ex- 

 perience and knowledge in simples." On the same authority undoubtedly, 

 Thomas Johnson says that this Doronicum grows " on the high mouutaines 

 of Northumberland." Mere. Bot. pars alt. p. 19.— This is good authority 

 for the indigenous claim of the plant; but it is now not to be found on these 

 hills. It occurs in grounds attached to houses, but whether scions from the 

 native race is disputable. — B. Professor Balfour finds it on Bemersyde near 

 Melrose, Phytologist, 1852, p. 671, but he does not say whether with ap- 

 pearances of wildness or not. 



