276 ADDITIONAL SPECIES. 



rent ovate-lanceolate leaves; clusters in pairs, revolute, the 

 flowers stalked, unilateral; segments of the calyx somewhat 

 spreading; corolla swollen, purple or buff-coloured Common 

 ey. 



Hob. Banks of rivers and watery places, rare. " Lane to- 

 wards the sea at Bamborough," Mr W. Robertson. 

 Banks of the Blackadder near Kyloe, sparingly, Mr 

 Thomas Brown. Side of the Whiteadder, about half a 

 mile from its mouth, with purple flowers. June. If 



The roots, which are black externally, yield a copious insipid 

 mucilage, and in consequence were formerly in great esti- 

 mation to " dense the brest from flegme, and cure the 

 griefes of the lungs ;" and to heal " all inward wounds and 

 burstings." A decoction of them is used by dyers to ex- 

 tract the colouring matter of gum-lac. The leaves give a 

 grateful flavour to cakes and panada, and the young stem 

 and leaves are excellent when boiled WITHERING. 



CAMPANULA, (p. 46.) 



2. C. latifolia, herb hispid, milky ; stem unbranched, round, 2 

 or 3 feet high ; leaves coarsely serrate, lower ones heart-shaped,, 

 acute, the upper ovate-lanceolate ; stalks single-flowered ; flowers 

 large, suberect, blue or nearly white ; fruit drooping. Giant Bell- 

 flower^ or Throatwort. 



Hob. Wooded deans. Wood south-west of Polwarth 

 church, and Castle-Law woods, Mr R. D. Thomson. 

 Langton wood and Lees* Cleugh, plentiful, Mr Thomas 

 Brown. Woods above the Pease-bridge, abundant. Aug. 



One of the greatest ornaments to the woods in the north of 

 England and in Scotland, but unnoticed by any poet, so 

 far as I know, except by Sir WALTER SCOTT, who, in his 

 Rokeby, has once mentioned it. 



' He laid him down, 



Where purple heath profusely strown, 

 And Throatwort with its azure bell, 

 And moss and thyme his cushion swell." 



CANTO iii. 8. 



VIOLA, (p. 64.) 

 1.* V. odorata, stem none; scions creeping; leaves heart- 



