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has a charter of John de Auchencraw, and they retained pro- 

 perty there in the male line as late as 1630, when one of my 

 ancestors married a descendant of the last of them. Being so 

 connected, has given me an opportunity of recording the above. 

 By the excavations of the south transept three slabs were 

 exposed, with a sword cut on each, one of them with two, and 

 also the figure of a cock, but no date on any of them. It has 

 been conjectured that this figure relates to the Cockburns, a 

 notable family once, in the county ; and what helps to confirm 

 it is, that the family of Turnbull, who purchased Houndwood 

 about the middle of the last century, took the ruins above the 

 place for their burying-ground. This Dr. Turnbull who pur- 

 chased Houndwood was the great-grandfather of Mrs. Capt. 

 Coulson, and a descendant of the Cockburns. The Hound- 

 wood family have always buried in this place. Near the same 

 place was also found a very perfect stone sarcophagus, cut to the 

 figure of the body. A broken vase, cut out of a very hard Silu- 

 rian rock, similar to what is found in the neighbourhood, has 

 also been dug out, with many various pieces of sculpture, all of 

 which are carefully preserved. With regard to the structure of 

 the ancient north wall, Mr. Billings, in his ' Ecclesiastical Anti- 

 quities/ has given a very fine view ; but he has incorrectly re- 

 presented the lower pillars to be supported on gorbals, whereas 

 the pillars of the original structure were entire, as became evi- 

 dent when the foundation was laid bare. 



Notices of Berwickshire Plants. By James Hardy. 



1. Orobus sylvaticus. 



In Monynut Wood, near the foot-path leading to Abbey St. 

 Bathans. The station on the Eye is now under cultivation. 



2. Peplis portula. 



Bog at the west end of Old-cambus Dean; in the pond at 

 Dulaw and its vicinity. 



3. Cnicus heterophyllus. 



In the boggy wood on the Whiteadder below Edin's Hold. 



4. Lithospermum maritimum. 



An observation that I made this season will account for the 

 occasional disappearance of this plant from its old sites. On 

 the 8th of August I found it rising in a new station, on the 

 beach at Greenheugh, the little bay west from St. Helen's 

 Church ; but I am sorry to add that, on the 1 7th of August, 

 and for some time afterwards, a north-east wind, accompanied 

 by a succession of high tides, moved the loose shingle, and 



