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great quantity^ only two small patches. It has suffered much 

 from the rapacity of greedy collectors, who were not contented 

 to get the flowers and foliage, but who must needs dig up the 

 roots. This spring (1861) I was pleased to see that it had somewhat 

 recovered from the ravages of these spoliators. 



Crepis succiscefolia is another of the rare denizens of Rugley 

 Wood. It grows but sparingly, on the west of the road. [Surely 

 this is a " sufficiently exact record of one of its localities," and 

 the authority is unimpeachable. The specimen, or one of the 

 specimens, collected there, is in our possession. We have also 

 seen it at Stainforth Force, near Settle.] 



Carduus heterophyllus is abundant by the burnside, and Trollius 

 europaus and Paris quadrifolia are plentiful on the east side of 

 the wood. 



Kyloe Crags is a locality about an hour's walk from Beal station, 

 on the North-eastern Railway, and is a basaltic range of rocks, 

 extending north and south, passing westward with a rugged irre- 

 gular point. Here Convallaria Polygonatum was first discovered 

 by Mr. A. Price, at a date which cannot be now satisfactorily 

 ascertained. It was first made known in the ' English Flora ' 

 (1824), and was subsequently lost sight of till 1849, when it was 

 re-discovered by four members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 club, and published in their Transactions.'^ 



The laudable prudence of the Club did not long preserve the 

 locality as a profound secret ; for about five years ago I and three 

 other plant-fanciers visited Kyloe Crags, where, after searching a 

 whole day, we discovered three fresh localities, besides the one 

 found by the Club. We found Asplenium septentrionale to be very 

 scarce, Adiantum nigrum and A. Trichomanes in abundance. 

 Euonymus europaus, Arabis thaliana, and Thalictrum minus are 

 also found on these crags. 



In Newnham loch, a little way from Newnham station, Ranun- 



* " Leaving the shoi'e we directed our steps to Kyloe Crags, with a hope that 

 anotlier investigation might be rewarded by the discovery of the oft-sought-for 

 Convallaria Polygonatum, and the ' wandering botanist ' can only appreciate tlie 

 feeling of deUght that rushed across our mind when we held the long-desired trea- 

 sure in our grasp. Confined to one place, it was there plentiful and in full flower. To 

 point out the exact spot would be to ensure its destruction, as has already happened 

 to another rare tenant of these crags, the Asplenium septentrionale, and that chiefly 

 through the instrumentality of one who calls liimself a botanist, and a member of 

 a similar Club to our own." 



