146 GENTIANA. CONVOLVULUS. 



Winch in Memoir and Corresp. of Sir J. E. Smith, i. p, 517.--— 

 Winch sent the specimen figured in Enghsh Botany from Holy- 

 Island (Fox's Synop. of the Newcastle Museum, p. 264) ; and 

 Dawson Turner, who first published the plant as a distinct species, 

 did so " in compliance with the opinion of Mr. Winch," and of 

 Mr. Brodie, for he had not been able to satisfy himself with respect 

 to the validity of its specific characters. Turn, and Dillw. Guide, ii. 

 p. 469. — There seems to be a growing con\dction that Mr. Turner 

 was right, and that E. centaurium and littoralis are merely two states 

 of one species. Hooker's Brit. Flora, and Rep. Bot. Soc. Edin. 

 1837, p. 59. 



373. Gentiana amarella. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. i. 60. 

 D. Links below Scremerston ; and on Holy Island. — N. Links S. of 

 Bamborough. Ancroftand Doddington moors. — B. Sea banks below 

 Lamberton Shiels, A. A. Carr. Aug. 



374. G. CAMPESTRis. B. Found at intervals on the coast from 

 Burnmouth to Fast Castle. On Coldingham moor, and frequent 

 throughout the Lammermoors. Birgham Moor. — D. Banks beyond 

 Spittal ; and on the links at Goswick. Holy Island. Ancroft 

 Moor, &c. — N. Very plentiful on Cheviot and the adjacent hills. 

 Autumn. 



375. Menyanthes trifoliata. Med. Botany, ii. pi. 85. - — 

 33ucfelifan. — Marshes and bogs, especially in moors, common. June, 

 July. — An infusion of the root and leaves is, not so often as formerly, 

 used by the common people in stomach complaints. It is, perhaps, 

 too much neglected by the faculty. See Correspondence of Ray, 

 p. 319. 



376. Convolvulus ARVENsis. OTilK ConbotbuIuiS : SStntJlufttf. 

 — Not common. B. On the Bank of the Pier-road ; and on the 

 Ramparts, where it may be found with white flowers. Gravel-pit on 

 the Ay ton-road seven miles from Berwick, A. A. Carr. Fields N. of 

 Eyemouth, G. Henderson. About Birgham, Ednam, and Nenthom, 

 Dr. F. Douglas. — D. Fields opposite Spring Gardens. Holy Island, 

 Dr. F. Douglas. About Bamborough. June, July. 



21. C. sepium. C]^e ConbolbiiluiS. — B. Naturalized and abundant 

 in hedges on the Ladykirk estate*. — D. About West Ord. July, 

 Aug. 



* " The earliest, and if I mistake not, the only entire example of a Third- 

 pointed building in Scotland, is the parish church of Ladykirk, on the 

 banks of the Tweed, built by James IV. in the year 1500. It is a somewhat 

 stiff and formal structure externally, betraying the introduction of an un- 

 familiar style. In the interior, however, the features of the older native 

 models predominate, and the plain single vaulted arch is especially remark- 

 able in connection with other details of a style, M'hich was wont, in the hands 

 of the southern architect, to expend its utmost exuberance in pendants, 

 bosses, and fan-tracery on the groined roof." Wilson, Archaeology of 

 Scotland, p. 634. — A lamentable parsimony has greatly injured the internal 

 appearance of this interesting church. 



