LYCOPODIUM. EQUISETUM. 257 



" The first leet night, quhaii the new moon set, 

 Quhan all was donffe and mirk. 

 We saddled our naigis vvi' the m00U=fcrit leif, 

 And rode fra Kihnenin kirk. 



" Some horses were of the brume-cow framit, 

 And some of the greine bay tree ; 

 But mine was made of ane humloke schaw. 

 And a stout stallion was he." — Jas. Hogg. 



27. Lycopodium clavatum. dToji'S'tail : Co'D'si''tail : iffof^^ 

 daiai : ^tag==i)onx moJiS. The spikes of it are called ^orfesi and 

 Hnibf£i, according as they are single, double or triple. The plant 

 is common on all our moors ; and herd callants occasionally decorate 

 their hats by twining the long creeping stem around them. 



28. L, ALPiNUM. On heaths. B. Lamberton moor; and not 

 uncommon in the Lammermuirs. — N. *' Upon Cheviot hills in 

 Northumberland," T, Johnson in Merc. Bot. pars alt. p. 26. Fre- 

 quent in Cheviot, Wallis. 



29. L. SELAGO. Elevated heaths. B. Lamberton moor: Dir- 

 rington law. Not rare on Penmanshiel moor, where are also found 

 L. selaginoides and L. alpinum, J. Hardy. 



30. L. SELAGINOIDES. Walil. Fl. Lapp. 292. Boggy places, 

 frequent, but overlooked from its size and unobtrusive character. 



31. Equisetum fluviatile = E. telmateja. f|oi*gf-tafI. Boggy 

 places, particularly m woods, not uncommon. Gregarious. By the 

 Pease-burn near the forester's house, &c. It has disappeared from 

 the Castle hills under the influence of drainage. April. 



32. E. arvense. a common weed in damp fields, which it is 

 difficult to eradicate from the depth to which the root penetrates. I 

 have traced this down to fully 1 2 feet from the surface, on the front 

 of a bank of diluvial sand at Marshall Meadows, exposed by the cut- 

 tings made for the railroad. Trans. Berw. N. Club, ii. p. 120. The 

 influence which the Equiseta have thus on the soil is a point for the 

 consideration of the engineer. See Phillips' Memoir of W. Smith, 

 p. 69. 



33. E. SYLVATicuM. In moist woods and deans, and sometimes 

 on open muirs, common. Sometimes called 33ottlf?i)vug]^r£( from its 

 resemblance to the instrument ; but a lady has more appropriately 

 named it the Fairy Larch. It is a beautiful species. 



34. E. LiMosuM. In ditches, ponds, and mill dams, common. 

 Distinguished for its full green colour. It is called ^Palltltc or 

 33at(tloiu?pipc^, from the form of the stem, and from growing in the 

 haunts of the frog or paddock. The name is, however, applied occa- 

 sionally to all the species of the genus. 



35. E. PALUSTRE. Spongy watery places, frequent. 



36. E. HYEMALE. ^mibliW'Sva^^, — a name given to it from 



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