176 CALLITRICHE. — ULMUS. 



507. C. PEDUNCULATA. B. Langstruther bog; and in a pool on 

 Greenside hill, J. Hardy. In pools on muirs, perhaps, not rare. 



508. Urticaurens. Cijt J^cttlc. Waste places, frequent. Aut. 



509. U. dioica. Cijt ^cttlf : ^thtgcp^jScttlc. Amongst rub- 

 bish and in wastes — the companion of man wherever he goes ; and 

 amidst the Cheviots it lingers long after the shieling has been deserted 

 and the walls rased. July. — Leeuwenhoek has given a good descrip- 

 tion of the sting of the Nettle, and it was, I believe, the first published. 

 Select Works, ii. p. 264. pi. 18. fig. 24-28.— The leaves, chopped 

 and mixed with oatmeal, are given to young turkeys. A decoction of 

 the entire herb is occasionally used medicinally. The young leaves 

 used to be boiled in broth. " Weeds are counted herbs in the begin- 

 ning of the spring: nettles are put in pottage, and salads are made of 

 eldern-buds." Fuller. 



510. Parietaria officinalis. 3^tUetovyfoUti)C'W^all. On 

 old walls, especially of old castles, frequent. B. On the Ramparts 

 and Old Castle of Berwick. Garden wall behind Renton Inn, &c. — 

 N. On Ford Castle, built by Sir William Heron in 1287. Two old 

 towers, one on the east flank, and one on the west, are the only 

 remains of the old Castle which are retained in the present edifice. 

 On the west tower the PeUitory grows. — Rocks by the Till on Lord 

 Fitz-Clarence's Walk, «&:c. Summer. 



" did cure me 



With sodden ale, and PeUitory of the Wall ; 

 Cost me but two-pence." — The Alchemist. 



29. Humulus hipulus. CJ^f l^op. Occasionally planted in hedges. 

 Has naturalized itself in those about Paxton. 



511. Ulmus MONTANA = U. campcstris. '^\)t ©Im : "Wivfti} or 

 ^cotc!)s(£Im. Indigenous in many of our deans, and planted in 

 hedges, &c. Elmdene, in the parish of Cockburnspath, obtained its 

 name from the Elms growing in the glen, some of which are still 

 among the largest in that part of Berwickshire*. In the haughs of 

 the Teviot and Tweed, near Kelso, there are some noble and thriving 

 examples: and the remains of the famed " Trysting Tree," one of 

 the largest Wych Elms on record, are still preserved. In the year 

 1796 the trunk was about 30 feet in girth. The tree is now appa- 

 rently dead. Stat. Ace. Roxburghs. p. 129. In the park at Thirlstane 

 Castle there is an Elm which measures in girth, at three feet from the 

 ground, 15 feet. A large Wych Elm which stands near the S.E. 

 angle of Blackadder house, is 14 feet in circumference at about five 

 feet from the ground, about 70 feet in height, and is supposed to be 

 about 200 years old. In the Hirsel woods, some of the fine Elms 

 present a curious appearance, for the branches have sought the 

 ground, and run along the surface to from 20 to 30 feet, the branches 



* At page 14 the name of this place is printed Heriot's dean, which, 

 Mr. Hardy tells me, is locally unknown, and has got by some error into the 

 maps. — We have also Elm-ford, but the Elm here appears to be derived 

 from the name of a proprietor of old. 



