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often growing to a height of seven or eight feet. This last is not 

 considered a truly indigenous plant, and it is only within these last 

 two or three years that I have noticed it in its present situation. 

 The Yellow Fleabane, another rare plant not mentioned in the 

 lists published in our Transactions, occurs on the Scar. The 

 Corn Marigold, about Cargo and Grinsdale. Chamomile used to 

 grow between Harraby and Durran Hill. The Sneezewort on 

 Kingmoor. 



Of the Campanulace^, the Round-leaved Bell Flower, locally 

 called Blue Bells, is "'common everywhere. I always look out for 

 the flowering of this plant, as it is a sure sign of midsummer ; and 

 one patch which I pass every day, comes regularly into flower as 

 the last week of June comes around. I once picked a white 

 variety of the Rampion Bell Flower by the roadside near Harker; 

 but I fancy it must have been an escape. Down Botcherby 

 Lonning, fine examples of the Giant Bell Flower are to be found ; 

 it also grows on the Scar, but the plants found there are very poor. 

 The Clustered Bell Flower on Stainton Banks grows magnificently, 

 and attracts the attention at once by its clusters of dark purple-blue 

 corollas. Sheepsbit looks more like one of the Compositae than 

 a Bell Flower, its small flowers being clustered together on a 

 hemispherical head. It is found on Kingmoor. 



We have two of the Heaths on Kingmoor, the Cross-leaved 

 Heath and the Fine-leaved ; a white variety of the Cross-leaved 

 Heath occasionally occurs. The Fine-leaved Heath is to be found 

 on that part of the moor near the Glasgow road. Ling or Heather, 

 on waste ground round us, the rose-coloured flowers often relapsing 

 to white. That very pretty flower, the Marsh Andromeda, is to be 

 found at Todhills, and grows on most of our peat-bogs. This is 

 quite a northern flower, and one which we ought to be proud of 

 The Bilberry is found in Kingmoor Wood ; the Cranberry at 

 Todhills ; while that somewhat rare plant, the Lesser Winter-green, 

 may be found in plantations at Kingmoor, Durdar, and Little 

 Often. 



