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395. Lathr^a squamaria. Berw. Fl. ii. 284. Edin. Journ. 

 Nat. and Geogr. Sc. iii. 385. — Rare. B. In a wood above the 

 Retreat at Abbey St. Bathans. — R. Banks of the Tweed below Little- 

 dean Tower, Dr. F. Douglas. April. 



396. Veronica serpyllifolia. Pastures and road-sides, on 

 a clay soil, or in damp places, common. The var. /3. humifusa was 

 found by Mr. Winch on Cheviot ; and I have a specimen gathered 

 in this locality by Mr. G. R. Tate in Aug. 1851. June. 



397. V. scuTELLATA. Ill boggy places, not uncommon. Of 

 most frequent occurrence at the sides of runlets on our moors. A 

 graceful species. Summer. 



398. V. ANAGALLis. Ditchcs, frequent. D. Abundant in the 

 ditch in Tweedmouth fields. — B. In Langton burn below Gavington. 

 July. 



399. V. BECCABUNGA. Brooklime. Ditches and water-courses, 

 common. — Summer. — A beautiful variety, with immaculate white 

 flowers, grows in a ditch on the road-side at Norham-E. -mains, and 

 also near Felkington in a similar station. In this variety the bracteas 

 are equal in length to the pedicels of the flowers, while they were 

 considerably shorter in the blue-flowered plants that grew close at 

 hand ; but blue-flowered plants in other sites have often bracteas 

 longer than the pedicels. There is also a pink-flowered variety 

 related to V. anagallis. This I find occasionally intermixed with the 

 plant in its ordinary state in localities which have a sandy bottom. 



400. V. OFFICINALIS. Dry banks, heaths, and barren places in 

 woods, common. A dwarf variety with flesh-coloured flowers grows 

 on rocks in Winden dean. Under the shade of fir-trees the flowers 

 become pale or almost white. 



401. V. MONTANA. Lightf. Fl. Scot. 74. — Deans, frequent. 

 B. "In the woods at Dunglass near the river," Dr. Parsons. 

 Langton woods. Rev. T. Brown. Redpath dean. — R. Woods at 

 Pinnaclehill near Kelso, Dr. F. Douglas. 



402. V, CHAM^DRYS =s V. bibarbata, Stokes, Bot. Comment, i. 

 56. — Germander-Speedwell. jMilfe^mat'D'si^tpc : (fuftn'gljt* : and 

 often miscalled the dforgetsmf^not, albeit its ephemeral and deciduous 

 blossoms are not false types of that friendship which the world 

 swears shall be life-lasting. The plant is common on road-sides, in 

 pastures, and in deans, flowering with the Hawthorn, which it rivals 

 in beauty, although that beauty has been less celebrated in song. 

 Yet it has not been overlooked : thus Ebenezer Elliott, under the 

 name of " Eyebright," — • 



* " There bloom'd the Strawberry of the wilderness, 

 The trembling Eyebright sliovv'd her sapphire blue." 



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