22 Dr Charles Stuart on the 



nutans, Asplenium trichomanes, Viburnum Opulus, Myosotis 

 sylvatica var. alba, Vicia sylvatica. Some of these habi- 

 tats are best reached from Dunbar or Haddington, but 

 are situated for the most part in remote regions, and 

 require the collector to live for a few days near the scene 

 of his work. Specimens of Ruhus Chamceniorus , the cloud- 

 berry, were sent to me last summer from Byrecleugh, near 

 Longformacus, which is a new plant for the county. 

 Epilobium angustifolium and Pyrola media flourish on the 

 banks of the Dye at Longformacus, On the west side of 

 Dirringtonlaw, Arctostaphylos Uva-ttrsi, the bearberry, 

 grows plentifully with Vaccinium Vitis-Idcea ; the berries 

 of the bearberry go by the name of Rapper-dandies among 

 the country people of the district. 



At Langton-lees Dean, three miles from the town 

 of Duns, the Rev. T. Brown, a former President of the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, had the distinguished 

 honour of adding Saxifraga hirculus to the Scottish flora. 

 This beautiful plant, by far the handsomest of our native 

 Saxifrages, grows there still in considerable abundance, 

 although sheep drains cut through the bog threatened at one 

 time to destroy the station ; it grows with a profusion of 

 Sedum anglicum and a marsh Spergula (S. Twdosaf), both 

 very attractive plants. This dean contains many good 

 plants, — Campanukt latifolia, and several good mosses, 

 which fruit there, being conspicuous. It opens into 

 Langton Dean, which is also botanically interesting. 



In the moorland part of Berwickshire, however, the 

 locality most prolific of good plants is Gordon Moss, and we 

 will also include Mellerstane Woods and Corsby Bog, all 

 easily reached from Gordon station on the Berwickshire 

 Railway. The Linnoaa borcalis station at Mellerstane 

 Woods, about the 6th of July, when this delightful 

 plant is in full flower, is a sight to behold. The space 

 covered by it is eighty-four yards in circumference, and is 

 situated in a pine wood, due south from a farm named 

 Lightfield, in Gordon Moor. Its long silky roots penetrate 

 into the debris of rotten bark and moss, never into any 

 soil ; and it grows here in great luxuriance, close to the 

 ground, so close that any one might easily walk over the 

 top of it without notice — its evergreen leaves, and flowers 



