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his parish and native county ; and he drew, with admirable skill, the 

 scenes he loved so well. He was an able and eloquent preacher. 

 Professional avocations checked the progress he had early made in 

 Natural History, but he advocated and loved the science to the end ; 

 and his latest effort was the delivery of some Lectures on its advan- 

 tages as a study, in the Mechanics' Institute at Dunbar. He contri- 

 buted much to the geology and botany of our district ; but he was 

 more an acute and accurate observer than an author, and pviblished 

 nothing vdth his name excepting the history of the parish of Cock- 

 burnspath, in the new Statistical x\ccount of Scotland. 



A monument to his memory has been erected in the churchyard 

 of Cockburnspath by his congregation; and upon the central column 

 the following inscriptions are engraved : — 



"To the memory of the Rev. Andrew Baird. Born 16th November, 

 1800. Ordained 28th April, 1831, assistant and successor to the Rev. 

 Andrew Spence in the parish of Cockburnspath. Died at Old Ilamstocks, 

 22nd June, 1845, Minister of the Free Church of Cockburnspath and 

 Old Hamstocks." 



" Mr. Baird was a man of the most amiable disposition, of a refined 

 taste, and of no ordinary scientific acquirements ; faithful to his Divine 

 Master, beloved by his flock, stedfast in his adherence to the principles of 

 the Free Church of Scotland amidst many peculiar hardships, which he 

 bore with meekness and unshaken constancy, until his death." 



318. S. JACOB^A. masiuovt: ^cllotD^-lucctJ : ^clloiy mh 

 !i{)\ntitv^, and in the Merse, dftl^/gigsi. — A common weed in old 

 pastu.res and by road-sides. July, Aug. — Some individuals have all 

 the rays of the flowers involute, or with their margins rolled inwards, 

 giving a peculiar aspect to the plant ; and others have no ligulate 

 florets. Both these varieties I have found in our Maudlin fields. 

 There is another variety with the leaves much more cut and divided 

 than usual, so that they obtain something of the appearance of the 

 curly-leaved parsley. This is not rare. 



319. S. AQUATicus. Boggy grovmd in old pastures, more 

 especially at the sides of ponds on mviirs. July, August. 



320. Carlina vulgaris. Uncommon, and confined apparently 

 to the neighbourhood of the sea. B. Banks below Lamberton Shiels; 

 and thence northwards to beyond Burnmouth. Near Ernesheugh 

 camp, A. A. Carr. — D. Holy Island, Dr. Neill. Links at Bamburgh 

 Castle, Dr. F. Douglas. June, July. — " Sicca persistit, postquam 

 periit matura, etiam toto altero anno, triste spectaculum." — 

 Linnseus. 



321. Centaurea nigra. f^artf^f^eatJg : Ca^gclsi : Slorsie'g* 

 ISnopS. — Very common in old pastures, on grassy banks, and by 

 road-sides. The variety in which all the florets are radiant and 

 larger than usual (Raii Syn. 199), and which is really a not unhand- 

 some plant, was found frequently, in this immediate neighbourhood, 

 in the summer of 1850. July, Aug. — The style is clothed with short 



