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birds. The Greater Knapweed, a handsome bright purple-rayed 

 flower, may be found on the Caledonian Railway banks, near 

 where the North British Railway crosses. The beautiful Corn 

 Blue-Bottle, often grown as a garden plant, I have found a few 

 times in the neigbourhood, in turnip fields about Kingmoor, and 

 on Grinsdale gravel bed. The Nodding Bur Marigold, in a pond 

 at Scotby, near the Midland Station ; the Trifid Bur Marigold in 

 a similar situation at Moorhouse. The Hemp Agrimony on the 

 Scar, and in the Spa Well Wood ; the plants on the Scar are the 

 largest I ever saw. Tansy may be found in great plenty along 

 Stainton Banks, in the hedge at St. Ann's, etc.; it was known to 

 me as a boy by the name of Batchelors' Buttons. By the bye, did 

 any of you ever try a Tansy pudding ? a suet pudding mixed with 

 finely chopped Tansy leaves. I had heard it very highly spoken 

 of, and knew of a farm house in our sister county where it was 

 always made when they had company to dinner. Well, always 

 being willing to try fresh recipes, I had one made once ; but, never 

 again ! The Common Wormwood and the Mugwort may both be 

 found near the Caledonian Railway Sheds, and the latter plant also 

 on Stainton Banks, and I suppose it gets its name from being 

 formerly used to flavour drinks. The Cudweed is common on 

 damp ground, especially where water has been standing. The 

 Butterbur and the Coltsfoot, both noted for the flower coming 

 before the leaf; the former by our river sides, the latter on railway 

 banks and waste ground. There seems to me to be a special 

 arrangement in these two plants, that the flowers should come before 

 the leaves, to better propagate their species. Because if coming 

 after, there would be very little chance of their being seen, or of 

 getting their share of the sun's rays ; hence they would be passed 

 over by the insects which cross-fertilise them, and in not getting 

 their share of sunshine, they would not ripen their seeds as fully 

 as they ought to do. The Golden Rod, a flower which might 

 almost be mistaken for Ragwort, grows on Skewbanks and near 

 Rickerby. Of the Groundsels or Ragworts, we have the Stinking 

 Groundsel at Cummersdale, the Marsh Ragwort on Kingmoor, 

 and the. giant of the family, Scnecio saracenicus, on Stainton Banks, 



