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suggested its use in this way, Mr Houlton received the 

 silver medal from the Society of Arts. "It increases rapidly 

 by creeping roots, and forms on these, during the summer, a 

 number of thick, half-tuberous buds, from which the stems of 

 the next year are to arise. From the end of autumn to the 

 close of winter, these tuberous buds abound in a mild, some- 

 what sweetish, farinaceous matter, and are then fit for domes- 

 tic use, being crisp, without fibre, and of a peculiar but 

 scarcely perceptible flavour." 



CARDAMINE pratensis, p. 143. I have noticed this flower to pro- 

 pagate itself in a manner of which there is not, I believe, ano- 

 ther example to be found amongst native plants, but not un- 

 common with the succulent plants of hot-houses. In autumn 

 little bunches of leaves may be seen to grow from the upper 

 surface of the old but perfectly fresh leaves, and throwing 

 out a radicle fibre, it creeps along to seek apparently a soil 

 proper to take root in. These parasitical bunches are certain- 

 ly young plants, and will detach themselves either when the 

 root has reached and fixed itself in the soil, or when the pa- 

 rent leaf has decayed. 



CARDAMINE amara, p. 144. In wet places about the base of 

 Cockburn Law, plentiful. About the head of Langton wood, 

 Mr Thomas Brown. In the Pease Glen, and in Dunglass 

 dean, Rev. A. Baird. 



GERANIUM lucidum, p. 151. Near Pinnaclehill, Kelso, Mr R. D. 

 Thomson. On rocks by the side of the Whiteadder, on the 

 south side of Cockburn Law, 



MALVA moschata, p. 153. Road sides near Birgham, sparingly; 

 and near Newton Don, plentiful, Mr R. D. Thomson. Lang- 

 ton woods, abundant, Mr Thomas Brown. 



Fu MARIA claviculata, p. 156. In the Pease Bridge dean on stony 

 spots between the Forester's houses, -plentiful. 



ASTRAGALUS glycyphyllos* p. 161. In the ravine above Burn- 

 mouth, Mr A. A. Carr. Flowers in July and August. 



GENISTA tinctoria, p. 158. Longridge Dean, Mr Thos. Brown. 

 Near Whiterig, in the parish of Eccles, Rev. A. Baird. 



