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the lowermost ternate; indusium entire along the margin. 

 Fronds from 2 to 3 inches high. — Asplenium Breynii, Retz. 

 Asplenium alternifolium, Wulf en. Amesium germanicum, New- 

 man. Scolopendrium alternifolium, Roth. 



This fern is distinguished from Asplenium Ruta-muraria, to 

 which it is most allied, by its simpler form, by its narrower 

 wedge-shaped pinnules, and by its indusium not being jagged 

 along the margin. 



It is recorded from near Kelso, Perth and Dunkeld, and also 

 from Caernarvonshire in Wales. It was first found by Breynius 

 near Langen-Schwalbach, and since then in some other parts of 

 the Continent. 



Asplenium germanicum appears to me a distinct species. If it 

 were merely a variety of Asplenium Ruta-muraria, we should 

 naturally expect to find the latter growing in the same locality ; 

 this fern, however, has never been found on the Crags or in their 

 vicinity. The other Aspleniums occurring at Kyloe, viz. A. sep- 

 tentrionale, A. adiantum nigrum, and A. trichomanes, bear little or 

 no resemblance to Asplenium germanicum. 



Alnwick, Aug. 28, 1852. 



An Account of an Assemblage of Ancient Sepulchral Monuments, 

 in the East of Berwickshire. By Mr. James Hardy. 



" The dismal efforts, which in the earliest periods, and in the first inhabited 

 parts of the world, were exerted, to cause human greatness, if possible, to 

 survive its certain wreck." — King's Munimenta Aniiqua, i. 269. 



" A barbarous age is unfriendly to human fame. When the clods of his-^ 

 hillock are scattered, or his funeral stones are thrown down, the glory of a 

 savage perishes for ever." — Turner's Hist, of the Anglo-Saxons, i. 182. 



" History, not wanted yet, 

 Lean'd on her elbow, watching Time, whose course, 

 Eventful, should supply her with a theme."— Cowper. 



The east of Berwickshire, like the other Border districts, till the 

 extension of agriculture within recent times, presented numerous 

 memorials of the ancient population. These consisted chiefly 

 of their ring fortlets or chesters, and their sepulchral barrows or 

 cairns. These appear to have been often associated together, 

 in the manner of our villages and churchyards ; the one as the 

 chief residence of the living, the other as the mausolea of the 

 dead. A conspicuous assemblage of these primitive monuments 

 existed till of late years on the immediate confines of the western 

 boundary of the parishes of Coldingham and Cockburnspath. 

 One of the most noted, as being situated on a hill, was called 

 St. David's Cairn ; a name derived from David I., a liberal patron 



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