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roads are comparatively level and very good. The country 

 is watered by the Tweed, Whitadder, and Blackadder,and the 

 banks of these rivers are among our best botanising ground. 

 At the mouth of the Whitadder, beds of Mentha syl- 

 vestris occur for miles up the banks of the river. Allium 

 Scorodoprasum, the sand garlic, is also plentiful at the 

 junction of the Whitadder and Tweed, with Scirpus mari- 

 timiis, for we have the tide affecting this part of the river. 

 Ranunculus arvensis grows in the fields about this point, 

 and is considered a rare plant in Berwickshire. Senecio 

 erucifolius grows in the boundary lane between Berwick 

 bounds and Berwickshire ; Viola hirta and Sisynibrium 

 sylvestre grow at New Mills, farther up, Scrophularia 

 Ehrharti grew at one time at Edrington Mill, but has not 

 been seen for some years. From Edrington the banks are 

 well wooded, and many interesting plants are to be met 

 with, the woods being carpeted with primroses and wood 

 anemones in the spring. Huttun Bridge, designed by Sir 

 T. Brown, here spans the river, and the scenery is very 

 pretty, and well worth a visit. The woods are full of 

 Myosotis sylvatica, Valeriana officinalis, Vicia sylvatica^ 

 primroses and anemones, Vicia sylvatica in great masses, 

 where the crumbling shales give it good roothold. Pro- 

 ceeding up the river for less than a mile, we arrive at a 

 green haugh where Malva moschata alba grows in great 

 profusion. Farther on we come to a hanging wood, and 

 beyond to high precipices in the red sandstone opposite 

 Huttonhall Mill. Here grows our best Whitadder plant, 

 the Lathyrus sylvestris, narrow-leaved everlasting pea ; 

 the great proportion of the plants growing on rocks, is 

 quite inaccessible, which, in these times of wholesale ex- 

 termination, is fortunate. However, the collector will 

 obtain specimens easily, for in dry weather the seeds, and 

 in wet the plants get dislodged from above, and, rooting 

 into the gravel in the bed of the river, make capital speci- 

 mens either to grow or preserve. I cultivate these seedling 

 plants in the garden, where they flower and flourish freelj'. 

 Lycopsis arvensis is growing in beds among the rocks, and 

 Melilotus officinalis and 31. alba grow also at the foot of tlie 

 cYiSs. Round a spring there is a patch of many species of 

 mints, which seem to be an attraction to numbers of 



