168 ANAGALLIS. STATICE. 



of the weather early m the morning by noticing the flowers." — 

 " When this plant is seen in the morning with its little red flowers 

 widely extended, we may generally expect a fine day ; on the con- 

 trary, when the petals are closed, rain will soon follow." Forster's 

 Prognostics of the "Weather. 



463. A. TENELLA. Sphagnous bogs, rare. B. Crawboat loch 

 near Spring-hill, abundant, Miss A. Hunter. — D. Haiden dean. 

 Near the Snook on Holy Island, Dr. F. Douglas. — There is a black 

 line round the margin of the under surface of the leaves. The fila- 

 ments are densely clothed with long white hairs, which the magnifier 

 shows to be jointed and knotted after the fashion of the antennae of 

 some insects. See Plate VI. fig. 4, but it gives an inadequate idea 

 of the beauty of the structure. We have scarce a prettier plant in 

 the British Flora. 



464. Samolus vALERANDi. Damp Watery placcs. D. Low moist 

 spots on Holy Island links, Thompson. Ferneyrig and Learmouth 

 bogs. Miss Bell. — B. Wet rocks on the sea-banks near Gunsgreen, 

 Rev. A. Baird. — R. Banks of the Tweed in Fleurs' park. Dr. F, 

 Douglas. July, Aug. 



465. Statice ARMERiA = Armeria maritima = A. pubescens, 

 Babington in Ann. and Mag. N, Hist. Ser. 2, iii. 435. — ^fa^^iufe : 

 ^fa-jiai^tfd : Ci)vift. — The sea-shore, common. — The flowers are 

 usually rose-coloured, but a white-flowered variety is not uncommon 

 on our sea-banks. Sir James E. Smith says that his S. armeria 

 flowers in July and August, and Mr. Babington assigns the same 

 period for it, while Withering gives May and June as the flowering 

 season. With us the plant begins to flower towards the end of May, 

 has attained its maximum beauty about the middle of June, and may 

 be considered as overblown in July. The three exterior leaflets of 

 the involucre are lanceolate and mucronate, the rest very obtuse with 

 a membranous border : the pedicel of the flower is shorter than the 

 tube and smooth, but the calyx entirely villous : the scape is downy 

 and usually from 5 to 8 inches in height : the anthers are yellow, 

 becoming a bluish-green in decay : the styles are filiform, with the 

 upper half rough or glandular, and near their base they are furnished 

 with a singular cluster of patent hairs. These are interlaced together 

 so as to form a sort of lattice-work in the tube of the corolla over the 

 germen ; but the use of them I have not discovered. See Plate V. 



fig- 6- 



In June, Yarrow-haugh * is one wide blush with this plant, and 



the effect of it, looking on the haugh from the opposite side of the 



* Yavrowhaiigh — viz. the haugh where the Yare is made. A Yare is " a 

 clam thrown across a river to impede the free run of sahnon, and so force 

 them through the lock or trap, in which they were taken." GreenvvcU in 

 App. to Bol<lon Buke, p. Ixxii. There was another Yare called the Touths 

 Yare nearer Berwick. " An other forde above that ys called Touths yare 

 going from the feldes of Urde unto the castell felde of Barwyke." Sur^'ey of 

 the Borders in 1542. This mode of fishing so low down in the Tweed has 

 been abolished from a time beyond memory ; but, singularly enough, it 

 has been proposed for revival, within these few weeks, by a correspondent 

 in the Berwick Advertiser ! 



