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in light soils, and abounds in fields newly reclaimed from muirs. B. 

 About Hmitley and Gordon. — R. About Yetholm. — N. AboutWooler; 

 and in fields below Langley-ford. Aug., Sept. 



437. Lamium album. UEIjttf fictttc. Waste grounds, com- 

 mon, flowering in spring and throughout the summer. It is a fine 

 plant, notmthstanding its commonness and the repulsiveness of its 

 habitats. Children go in spring to seek the Golden Lady-birds 

 (Chrysomela fastuosa) upon it. At Dunse the plant is called ^iiffey- 

 iSoO!^. The leaves, " shorn into bits," are sometimes given to young 

 turkeys. 



438. L. PURPUREUM. Itvctr iBcaUsJ^cttlf. Road-sides, gardens, 

 and waste grounds, very common. Spring and summer ; and the 

 best specimens for the herbarium may be procured in March. A 

 variety (/3. molle, Don. Gard. Diet. iv. 818) -wdth pure white flowers 

 grows abundantly on walls and road-sides abovit Dunse. 



439. L. iNCisuM = L. dissectum. With. Bot. Arrang. iii. 527. — 

 Road-sides, frequent in the neighbourhood of Berwick, but I have 

 not often seen it in other parts of the district. The tube of the 

 corolla is uaked within and at the base in our plant, which is con- 

 sequently the true L. incisum of Smith, Koch, &c. 



440. L. INTERMEDIUM. Cultivated grounds. My specimens 

 were procured in D. Ord fields ; and I have seen it growing plenti- 

 fully at Millknowe amidst the Lammermoors. Summer. As a 

 British native, the discovery of this species is due to Mr. Tyache. 

 Rep. Bot. Soc. Edin. 1836, p. 27. 



441. L. AMPLEXiCAULE. In gardens and waste grounds, a com- 

 mon weed. Spring and summer. 



442. Betonica officinalis = Stachys betonica. ?3ttoni). 

 Walker Oxf. Fl. 167. — Deans and copses, not common. B. Sea- 

 banks N. of Dodd's well : banks of the Whiteadder at Whitehall : in 

 Houndwood and Penmanshiel, &c. — D. Haiden and Allerton deans : 

 Kyloe dean : in great profusion in a dean below Fenham Buildings ; 

 and at hedge sides, and on the sea-banks, about Fenham ; in the 

 wooded bank below Belford on the road to Bamburgh, &c. — N. Ford 

 Wood-end, &c. Autumn. 



443. Stachys sylvatica. Mtv^^tttlt. Woods, and under 

 hedges, common. Gregarious. Exhales a hea^y sickening scent. 

 Believed by the common people to sting like the common nettle. 

 July, Aug. 



444. S. ambigua. Rare. I have found this in Edmond's dean ; 

 and Mr. Hardy finds it in the Pease dean. 



445. S. PALUSTRis. Moist fields and banks of ditches, common. 

 A variety with the leaves shortly stalked is not rare. 



446. S. ARVENSis. Sandy fields, uncommon. B. " Below Lam- 

 berton, plentiful," Thompson. Dulaw dean : banks of the Eye and 

 Ale, A. A. Carr. Gardens at Cockburnspath, J. Hardy. — N. About 

 Doddington, Thompson. 



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