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diligently over the ground where we were told it grew, 

 only one of us found a specimen. About the middle of 

 July I returned to this place, and examined it, and 

 adjoining ground, but did not get even one specimen, 

 although Mr. John Elliot assures me it was quite plentiful 

 earlier in the season, and feels sure he could have found it, 

 although hidden among the heather. During the fourth 

 week in August, as one of the guests of the Berwickshire 

 Field Club at their excursion to Liddesdale, I was taken by 

 Mr. John Elliot, along with others, to a new station he 

 had discovered at an elevation of about 1000 ft., and 

 we found the A. jwlifolia growing abundantly in a very 

 wet peat moss, such as would be described in Liddes- 

 dale as a " flow." Hearing that the plant had been introduced 

 into some gardens at Newcastleton with success, I took 

 some plants and had them put into a plot at my house, 

 where the Andromeda seemed quite to establish itself at 

 once. I was rather surprised to find it was flowering at 

 the beginning of October, which was presumably the 

 second time of flowering this year. Altogether, A. 

 jjolifolia, Linn., appears to be a most interesting plant, as 

 it can adapt itself to widely diflerent conditions of climate 

 and soil, and yet thrive. 



But perhaps the most interesting circumstance connected 

 with A. i^olifolia, Linn., is the great difference in 

 altitude at which it is found, and its wide range. It is 

 found on the high mountains of Central Europe and Spain, 

 and northwards to Arctic Europe, Greenland, and the 

 Arctic regions, also in Asia and Canada, and Western 

 America. 



In the " Flora of the Alps," Mr. A. W. Bennett says of 

 A. ijolifolia : " Alpine bogs, Switzerland, Jura, Yosges, Tyrol, 

 Pyrenees." 



The plant has been long well known in the low country 

 of Germany as being found in bogs, as a number of 

 stations are given by Eoth, in his " Flora of Germany," 

 published in 1788. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., of Croydon, kindly informs 

 me that there are, as far as he knows, no records of 

 altitudes for A. j^olifolia for the west of Scandinavia, 

 V)ut from Arctic Norway the plant has been got from the 



