150 CYNOGLOSSUM. — SOLANUM. 



Mr. Surtees, writing in 1814, says of Bambrough Castle that it is " a 

 truly grand impressive place as ever I savp in my life. The walls, of 

 very great extent, rise from an isolated crag, and the only road up is 

 hewn through the rock. The Fame Isles are all scattered in front, 

 and the sea-view unbounded." And again — "The castle is the 

 grandest thing conceivable, but the country is abominably bare and 

 uninteresting — all one regular declivity to the coast, and all in tillage, 

 and hterally not a tree in sight." Memoir, p. 3.59. 



392. Cynoglossum officinale. f^oun1('!S4onguc. — Waste 

 grounds. B. On Coldingham shore ; and about the onstead of 

 Halydowne. Sea-banks at Lumsden dean, J. Hardy. Between 

 Reston and Covey -heugh, A. A. Carr. It has disappeared from the 

 banks of our old Castle within my recollection. — D. Links from 

 Scremerston southwards ; and about the Signal-house on Ross point. 

 Holy Island. N. About Bamborough, Dr. F. Douglas. July. 



393. H.YOSCYAMUS NIGER, f^tittanf. — Waste grounds : 



" On hills of dust the ^ttxbant^S faded green. 

 And pencilled flower of sickly scent is seen." 



Around Berwick, but it has decreased much of late years. When 

 the Castle banks were disturbed during the operations in making the 

 Railway, the Henbane appeared in profusion ; and it is still plentiful 

 on those parts which are yet naked. B. It grows about Burnmouth; 

 on the sea-shore at Fairnyside; and near Eyemouth and Coldingham 

 shore. Mr. Carr found it on the banks of the Eye below Reston ; 

 and Mr. Henderson by Allanbank mill, near Allanton. North bank 

 of the Tweed opposite Littledean Castle, Dr. R. D. Thomson. 

 Hirsel woods. — D. Holy Island. — R. About the ruins of Roxburgh 

 Castle, Dr. F. Douglas. — N. Banks of the Glen at Lanton. — June. 

 — "In the garden of Mr. Anderson, surgeon in Allanton, there is 

 now growing a plant of H. niger of the following extraordinary 

 dimensions and fecundity. It is 5 ft. 4 in. in height, and in breadth 

 its branches spread out to the same extent. It bears above 1000 

 seed-vessels, and if we reckon each of these vessels to contain 300 

 seeds, (which is a moderate computation, as I counted the seeds of 

 one of the pods, not of the largest size, and found it to contain 326 

 seeds,) the amount of the whole will be 300,000 ! " G. Henderson. 



394. SoLANUM DULCAMARA. Nightshade : ^udjion^JScrrp. — 

 In thickets in deans, rare ; more frequent in hedges and in avenues. 

 It grows well within the walls of Berwick. June, July. 



15. S. tuberosum. Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. x\-ii. 154. — Ci)e 

 potato : tl)C Catcc. — Extensively cultivated, in numerous varieties. 

 Lord Kaimes introduced the plant to Berwickshire husbandry in 

 1746 ; but for some years the novelty made slow progress. Eighty 

 years ago the mistress of the farm was accustomed to count the 

 number she gave out from her store for family consumption, lest 

 any should have been used by the servants ! See also Quart. Rev. 

 Ixxxii. p. 383. 



