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6. Rubus plicatus. Godscroft "Woods ; Harelawside Wood. 



7. Alchemilla vulgaris. A dwarf variety, with the leaves and 

 petioles densely pubescent, grows in the gravelly haugh between 

 Godscroft and the Monynuts. 



8. Epilobium virgatum. This is abundant in some "of the 

 peat-pits in Coldingham Moor, and generally over the Lam- 

 mermuirs. 



9. Galium uliginosum. Small purplish conical bodies, com- 

 posed of minute leaves, appear at the ends of some of the shoots 

 in autumn. These are the nestling places of the larvae and 

 pupse of Psylla Galii. 



10. Bellis perennis. The var. 2. Withering, Bot. Arrang. iii. 

 p. 733, with the flower globular, herbaceous, and resembling a 

 strawberry, grows in the fields here. It is unaltered under 

 cultivation. 



i .11. Senecio vulgaris. Supplementary or aerial rootlets often 

 issue from the stem. They occur also in S. Jacobcea, Achillea 

 millefolium, and Galeopsis Tetrahit. They are most frequent at 

 the nodes, but the intervals have equally the power of producing 

 them. They are most numerous when the stem is decumbent 

 on the soil, but several of them never enter it. Digitalis pur- 

 purea and Cardamine pratensis in autumn occasionally show 

 rootlets on the stem, but these are connected with leafy buds, 

 originating in the axils of leaves or branches. 



12. Leontodon Taraxacum. On the 16th of July, I observed 

 that the greater number of the dandelions in a piece of ground 

 that had been rendered very compact by frequent treading on, 

 had most of the flowers united in twos. Some were combined 

 to the very top, and flowered together ; another was in seed, 

 while its companion was expanding ; a third preserved its unity 

 for only two-thirds of the stalk, and separated at the summit ; 

 while a fourth presented a symmetrical stem throughout, with- 

 out traces of the engrafting process apparent in others. These 

 conjunct heads are not unfrequent in Apargia autumnalis and 

 Centaur ea nigra. 



13. Crepis virens. On the 22nd of September, I met with a 

 plant among corn, in which the flowers were converted into 

 large green scaly heads. These were circular, and consisted of 

 from 24 to 28 distinct cylindrical herbaceous florets. This 

 state is analogous to that of the daisy already referred to. The 

 (receptacle) involucre was scattered in the form of bracts on the 

 stalk beneath the heads. 



14. Hieracium umbellatum. Penmanshiel Wood. Both it 

 and H. sabaudum are becoming scarce, being destroyed by 

 the colonies of rabbits that of recent years have overrun the 

 woods. 



