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158. A. PUBESCENS. Dry limestone pastures, not uncommon in 

 the neighbourhood of Berwick. Sea and river banks. June. 



159. A. FLAVESCENS = Trisetum flavescens. Meadows and new 

 pastures, common. July. 



160. PHRAGMiTESCOMMUNis=Arundophragmites. Cf)C 2^CftJ : 

 33ogs3dcctJ : JSrnnelsi. Banks of rivers, and in ponds and ditches, 

 frequent. — Mown in some parts of Berwickshire, and vised for 

 thatching. "The reason why reeds are called Beimels is because 

 they were used in making 'Bennels' ; viz. layers of reeds bound 

 together and extended below the roof in cottages not provided with 

 a ceiling." J. Hardy. 



161. HoRDEUM PRATENSE. Very rare. D. Yarrow-haugh, on 

 waste ground at its head ; and on the river side below the mouth of 

 the Whiteadder, Dr. James Thompson. July. 



162. H. MURiNUM. 'SMtltJ J3arlei). Road-sides and waste 

 grounds. It is abundant about Berwick, and in the vicinity of all 

 our villages on the coast. Holy Island. N. On the road from 

 Millfield to Yevering. July. — Children amuse themselves by insert- 

 ing a spike between the wrist and the sleeve of the jacket. The arm 

 is now swung back and forwards for some time, when, on stripping, 

 they perceive, with wonder, that the grass has crept up, perhaps, to 

 the arm-pit. I have often performed this feat. — 



4. H. vidgare. Jacnr: JStir: ?3ne: 53tgg;: dFour^rotDctj ?3ailci). 

 Almost the only kind cultivated in the Lammermoors until the 

 beginning of the present century. Its early ripening was a great 

 recommendation for this high locality ; but nevertheless it has been 

 gradually superseded by the common Barley, and is now rare in 

 cultivation. 



5. H. distichum. 33arlei) : Ciuon-oluttr SSarto. Extensively 

 cultivated in many varieties. — " The fiers of the Merse barley were 

 first settled in 1 752, which seems to intimate, that barley began to 

 be then an object of common cultivation. The fiers of the barley of 

 Lammermoor were first adjusted in 1788, which seems to show the 

 more recent cultivation of it, in this high situation, which produces 

 corn of less weight and value than the Merse below." Chalmers, 

 Caledonia, ii. p. 317. 



6. H. hexastichon. Hogg in Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. 

 V. 498. ^ijivroluetJ 33arl£j). — Cultivated to a comparatively small 

 extent. 



163. Triticum junceum. D. Sandy sea-coast from Spittal 

 southward, not very common. Holy Island. — B. Shore at the foot 

 of the Pease-burn ; and between the Cove shore and Dunglass burn, 

 J. Hardy. July. 



164. T. caninum. Banks and hedges, not common. B. Banks 

 of the Eye between Ay ton and Netherbyres. Cockburnspath Tower- 

 dean, J. Hardy. — N. Ashwood, Belford, Thompson, July. 



