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Hab. " Near Gateheugb, in the west of Berwickshire," 

 Mr W. Baird. July. 7/ 



" The later herbarists do call it Herba Cattaria, and Herba 

 Catti, because the cats are very much delighted herewith ; 

 for the smell of it is so pleasant to them, that they rub 

 themselves upon it, and wallow or tumble in it, and also 

 feed on the branches and leaves very greedily." GERARDE. 

 On this account it can only be preserved in gardens by 

 sowing the seed, for, by the handling in the process of 

 transplanting, or in the languid state subsequent to it, the 

 peculiar scent is exhaled, and the cats are attracted to the 

 plant, which otherwise they are unable to discover. " If 

 you set it, the cats will eat it ; if you sow it, the cats will 

 not know it." 



MENTHA, (p. 126.) 



1. M. viridis, spikes interrupted: leaves sessile, lanceolate, 

 acute, naked ; bracteas bristle-shaped, somewhat hairy, as well as 

 the teeth of the calyx ; flower-stalks very smooth Spearmint. 



Hab. At the sides of the Whiteadder above Gainslaw-ford, 

 on the north side, in two or three large patches, and ap- 

 parently perfectly wild. Aug. Sept. If. 



MELAMPYRUM, (p. 128.) 



2. M. . sylvaticum, leaves in distant pairs, entire ; flowers axil- 

 lary, turned to one side ; corolla deep yellow, small, gaping, the 

 lip deflexed; height about 1 foot. Wood Cow-wheat. 



Hab. Banks of the Dye above Longformacus, Mr Thomas 

 Brown. July, Aug. 7/ 



My specimens from Mr BROWN agree entirely with the de- 

 scriptions of authors, and also with authentic specimens of 

 M. sylvaticum, with which they have been compared. I 

 mention this the more particularly, because I am tolerably 

 certain that, in the above station, it grows intermixed with 

 the more common M. pratense. The latter, in addition to 

 its other habitats, I may add, grows very abundantly in 

 the woods between Houndwood'and the Pease-bridge, and 

 on some wooded parts of the banks of the Whiteadder be- 

 tween the Retreat and Elmford ; but in no part of Ber- 

 wickshire have I observed it to attain the size of the plant 

 figured in Eng. Botany, and which I have gathered in the 



