PEDICULARIS. DIGITALIS. 157 



413. P. SYLVATicA. Heaths, common. A white-flowered variety- 

 has repeatedly occurred to us. July. — From this and the preceding, 

 the mountain bees extract a large share of their honey. 



414. ScROPHULARiA NODOSA. Woods, deans, and hedges, fre- 

 quent. It is fond of briery brakes, and often hides midst brushwood 

 on the margent of a burn. June, July. — The unattractive flowers 

 are so remarkably haunted by wasps as to attract common observa- 

 tion, J. Hardy. "Flores vesparum delicise." Linnaeus. The honey- 

 bee also prefers it. 



415. S. Ehrharti. Stevens in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. i. 57. 

 Dr. Bell Salter in Phytologist, 1852, p. 740.— Rare. "Berwick," 

 Dr. P. W. Maclagan. I do not remember the exact locality. I have 

 gathered the plant in the dean between Linthaughlee and Houndlee 

 on the Jed. Aug., Sept. 



416. S. AauATicA. Wet places. B. Side of the Whiteadder in 

 Tibby Fowler's glen, — an interesting locality from being the pre- 

 sumed scene of the old ballad, beginning 



" Tibby Fowler o' the glen ! 

 A' the lads are wooing at her." 



In the bed of the Eden at Nenthorn ; and in the grounds of Newton 

 Don. July, Aug. 



417. Digitalis purpurea. Withering's Memoirs, ii. 110. — 

 dTov^globe or rather dTolfe^^gXobc, viz. the gloves of the " Good 

 People": WiiUf)t&' Cijtmhlcsi : IBcalT^mm'^ hellsi: ^cotd) Mtvcwv: 

 W^ila ^tvcuvv. — Common. Abundant in the north-east and west 

 of the county of Berwick in the greywacke district ; less common, 

 and even rare, in the sandstone districts. Abundant on many parts 

 of the Cheviot hills, where a specimen with white flowers may be 

 occasionally picked. — B. With white flowers on Ewieside, in the 

 Pease dean, and on Penmanshiel moor, J. Hardy. " Banks of the 

 Whiteadder at Tod-heugh quarry ; and on the high bank, with white 

 flowers, just above the miller's cottages at Hutton-mill. This plant 

 is very rare in the district in which these stations occur," G. Hen- 

 derson. Often very ornamental in deans, and on rocky ledges that 

 overhang the deep pools of our brattling burns : — 



" I 've lingered oft by rocky dells. 



Where streamlets wind with murmuring din. 

 And marked the Fox-glove's purple bells 

 Hang nodding o'er the dimpled lin." 



This plant is one of the powerful ingredients used as " bath " for 

 sheep, but some shepherds object to its use, for they say that it 

 blackens the wool very much. The leaves afi^ord a medicine of great 

 energy and value ; and before this was known to physicians, the Fox- 

 glove or Fox-tree was frequently administered by the bold country 

 quack, not always with impunity. See Dalyell's Darker Supersti- 

 tions, p. 113. — About Greenlaw, the plant, from its stateliness, bears 

 the elegant name of tije l^tng'!^ cliuanb : — 



" Straight as the Foxglove, ere her bells disclose." 



