198 ALLIUM. — JUNCUS. 



colour similar to those of the flowered head. They are covered with 

 the outer membranous coat, and attached to the base of the root by 

 fibrous radicles. The leaves begin to decay as the plant begins to 

 flower. Their margins are armed with minute serratures, only visible 

 with a magnifier. 



16. A. OLERACEUM. D. On the Heugh of Holy Island, Winch. 

 — N. On the rocks at Spindlestone, R. C. Embleton in Trans. Berw. 

 N. Club, ii. 3.56.— B. Lumsden dean, G. R. Tate. 



17. A.. viNEALE. Don in "Wern. Mem. vi. 9. — CvoId (J^avltcfe. 

 — Dry banks, rocky ridges, and borders of fields, frequent, more 

 especially towards the sea, but seldom seen in flower. 



18. A. uRsiNUM. I^amp^g : OTliltJ ItcffeiS. Moist woods and 

 deans, abundant and gregarious, where the beauty of its white flowers 

 is dimmed by the strong smell of garlick exhaled from the herbage. It 

 constitutes in May a principal part of the profuse vegetation of Dun- 

 glass dean. It is reckoned poisonous. Cows that eat it have their 

 milk and butter tainted and rendered useless. May, June. 



19. SciLLA NUTANS = Agraphis nutans. W^iVO ^vncintl). In 

 woods and deans, common. May, June. 



20. S. VERNA. B. Sea-banks at Gunsgreen, plentiful, and where 

 it was discovered by the late Rev. A. Baird. It rarely exceeds three 

 inches in height with us. June. 



4. Tulipa sylvestris. Wild Tulip. — B. Naturalized in the wood 

 at Netherbyres, Rev. A. Baird. " Found in great profusion in a 

 small plantation near the village of Hassington. There is no gentle- 

 man's house or place or garden near this spot, whatever there may 

 once have been. The plant at present seems, from its quantity, to 

 have been long established there." Miss Hunter. 



21. JuNCUs EFFUsus. Wet pastures; by road-sides and rivulets. 



3. Allium schcenoprasum. Liglitf. Fl. Scot. 180. Huds. Fl. Ang. 2nd 

 edit. 649. — Chives : Scythes : Syvees. — " By Fast Castle," Dr. Parsons. 

 Often sought for and in vain, but a lover of localities may be induced to 

 renew the search, remembering that Fast Castle, besides much else of 

 interest associated with it, is sui)posed to be the Wolf's-Crag of the Bride 

 of Lammermoor. 



4. Erythronium dens-canis. Dog's-tooth Violet. — Seems to have almost 

 naturahzed itself in the grounds at A5'ton Castle. March 10, 1851. 



5. Tofieldia palustris. — "About two miles from Berwick, by the side of 

 a rivulet, in a boggy ground, not far from the road leading to Edinburgh, 

 we found a sort of Pseudo-asphodelus which I had never before seen, much 

 less than that common in England, having, as I guess, white flowers in a 

 spike, to which succeed roundish seed-vessels. The stalk of the spike is 

 naked, or not having above one leaf, the spike itself short, the root fibrous, 

 as that of the common." Ray, Select Remains, p. 182. Also Huds. Fl. 

 Ang. 2ud edit. p. 157. — Withering gives as a locality " near Berwick," 

 Bot. Arrang. ii. 358 ; but he undoubtedly does so on Ray's authority. And 

 Robson (Br. Flor. p. 143) says^" by a brook not far from Berwick in Scot- 

 land," quoting also from Ray without acknowledgement. 



