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377- CuscuTA EPiTHYMUM. Babingtoii in Trans. Edin. Bot. 

 Soc. ii. 97 & 199. — N. On the moors above Yevering. During a 

 walk from Yevering to Heathpool linn, I filled my box with different 

 plants, and on examining these at home, a single specimen of this 

 Cuscuta was found amongst them. 



378. EcHiuM vuLGARE. Lightf. Fl. Scot. 136. — 2Htpcr'£i 

 33ug;lo^)S. — Waste grounds, frequent. Abundant on many parts of 

 the Tweed banks, as above the tJnion bridge and about Coldstream ; 

 and on the Whiteadder, as about Hutton-hall, and Edington mills, 

 and Chirnside bridge, &c. Scattered otherwise over our district, 

 where it attracts notice and admiration from the beauty of its flowered 

 spikes. — "About Melross-Abbey, and some other places, I observ'd 

 what I apprehend to be only a variety of this ; it differs chiefly in 

 having the branches more divaricated, and the stamina nearly twice 

 as long as the flower. Perhaps this is the Echium anglicum, Huds. 

 Fl. Ang. p. 70." Lightfoot. — This variety I have seen gathered on 

 Gaitheugh above Dryburgh ; and I have gathered a fine white- 

 flowered variety on the Whiteadder below Whitehall. July. — The 

 flowers are much frequented by the humble-bees. 



379. LiTHOSPERMUM ARVENSE. Com-fields, common. June. 



380. L. MARiTiMUM =: Mcrtensia maritima = Steenhammera 

 maritima. #D£itnvplant. — D. Observed by Thomas Willisell, in 

 1670, "near a water-mill between the Saltpans and Berwick." Bay's 

 Corresp. p. 61. "By the salt-pans between Barwicke and the Holy 

 Island," T. Johnson in How's Phy. Brit. p. 36. Ray visited Berwick, 

 July 24, 1671, when he appears to have gathered this fine plant "at 

 Scrammerston mill, between the Salt-pans and Barwick on the sea- 

 beach, about a mile and a half from Barwick." — Wilson would lead us 

 to suppose that there were two distinct stations for it on this shore : 

 "At Scrimmerston mill, between the Salt-pans and Berwick. On the sea- 

 beach about a mile and a half from Berwick." Syn. Brit. Flora, p. 80. 

 — There is obviously, however, only one station indicated in these 

 notices, and that is the one discovered by Thomas Willisell. There 

 are no Salt-pans now, nor any mill there ; but the names remain to 

 tell the story of a manufacture which has long ceased to be. The 

 habitat is as clearly defined as it was in Ray's time; and I had so 

 frequently searched for the plant unsuccessfully, that I concluded it 

 had followed the fate of the Pans and the Mill. In the spring of 

 1845, however, my daughters found a single vigorous plant on the 

 spot ; and unfortunately rooted it up before they had ascertained 

 that no other grew there. I do not despair of its re-appearance. 

 B. Lumsden shore, plentiful, A. A. Carr. In considerable abundance 

 among the shingle on a low part of the shore between Dulaw and 



30. Villarsia nymphseoides. — B. In the mill pond of Foulden-New-mains, 

 G. Henderson, where it was planted by the worthy gardener of the pro- 

 prietor, and who told me that he procured the plant from Dunse-Castle 

 lough. It has since been extirpated. In the Hen-pow of Dunse-Castle, 

 I presume, it is still an abundant ornament. 



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