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mosses. I find, after examining several of the cuttings made 

 for peats in this vicinity, that they occur in Dulaw Moss. They 

 are to be seen on the east side of the moss, where the peat is at 

 present obtained. I traced out the remains of six or seven 

 stumps still rooted in the moss j having been left behind, after 

 the peat had been dug from about them. Another, still in the 

 moss, lies beneath three feet of peat. They present the shat- 

 tered appearance of trees that have been fractured by a gale. 

 One of the trees, however, thirteen yards long, lies at present 

 exposed, with the root still attached to it. Some of the external 

 wood is quite sound, and of a reddish tint, and burns with a 

 clear flame and a resinous odour. The bark still adheres to 

 the base of the stumps, and layers of resin in an unaltered state 

 lie between the separate flakes. The diameter of the stumps 

 is from 11 to 2~ feet, and the height of one is 3 feet. I picked 

 up several cones that lay scattered about, and along with them a 

 hazel-nut. Immense quantities of the remains of oak and birch 

 trees, in an extremely decayed state, lie huddled together in the 

 moss where these pines occur, and constitute the larger portion 

 of the peat. A very straight oak had been extracted, 9 yards 

 long and 2 feet in diameter. Although huge oaks now and then 

 occur, birch is certainly the predominant tree in the Lammer- 

 muir peat-mosses ; and young trees spring up there still. Hazel 

 also is pretty generally distributed. 



23. Scirpus fluitans. Dulaw Moss. 



24. S. caricinus. Sides of the Whiteadder, near The Retreat. 



25. Triticum repens. I have met with an instance where the 

 root has penetrated through a portion of a sound potato, having 

 entered at one of the " eyes." When I obtaine4 it, it exactly 

 fitted the perforation. The Quicken is sometimes called " ae- 

 pointed grass," from the single awl-like leaflet it sends up at its 

 first appearance above ground in spring. 



26. Poli/podium Dryopteris. Banks of Monynut Water, op- 

 posite Godscroft. 



27. Pteris aquilina. The scape sometimes bears hard woody 

 prominences, analogous perhaps to spines. Those nearest the 

 root are long, slightly recurved, and brown at the apex. 



28. Didymodon flexicaulis. Abundant on Greenside Hill, and 

 near the Blakelaws, in such barren spots in bogs as Hypnum 

 filicinum, H. commutatum, Bryum pseudo-triquetrum, and Lyco- 

 podium Selac/o grow in. 



29. Gymnostomum fasciculate. Frequent in the upper part 

 of Howpark dean, by the side of the burn, fruiting in August. 



30. Marchantia conica. Common in all the deans in Pen- 

 manshiel Wood ; also in Howpark dean, and on the Monynut 

 Water. 



