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buried the whole of my seedlings. Shortly after, I went to the 

 locality to the east of Redheugh, where it once abounded, but I 

 could not perceive a single plant ; the beach having undergone 

 great alterations since my previous visits. A number of plants, 

 however, have sprung up at the mouth of the Pease Burn ; and 

 I observed it also further to the west at the Ewelairs, where it 

 formerly grew, but where it had not been seen for many years. 



5. Galeopsis Ladanum. 



On an uncultivated rocky and gravelly spot in a field near 

 St. Helen's Church, apparently indigenous. 



6. St achy s arvensis. 



Banks of the Monynut, below Trefountain. 



7. Clinopodium vulgare. 



On an uncultivated bushy spot, called the Oak Brae, at Old- 

 cambus ; along with Astragalus glycyphyllos. 



8. Primula vulgaris. 



It is mentioned in the ' Flora of the Eastern Borders/ p. 165, 

 that humble-bees pay no attention to this plant ; but this is a 

 mistake, for they often frequent its flowers ; and hence it has 

 obtained the notice of the poets : — 



" He shal ben lyk the lytel bee, 

 That seketh the blosme on the tre, 

 And souketh on the prumorole." 



MS.Addit. 11307. f- 67 (Brit. Mus.). 



" And lowly primrose opes unseen 

 Her virgin bosom to the bee." 



Hogg's Queen's Wake. 



The hive-bee occasionally visits the Polyanthus for pollen, but I 

 never observed it on the Primrose. 



9. Polygonum amphibium. 



On the Monynut I obtained, within a reddish package formed 

 by the revolute edge of the leaf, the larva of Cecidomyia (Tipula) 

 Persicaria of Linnseus, not before observed as British. Win- 

 nertz has described the female of the perfect insect in his elabo- 

 rate " Monographic der Gallmucken," in the ' Linnsea Entomo- 

 logica/ vol. viii. p. 217. The pretty beetle, Chrysomela Raphani, 

 both in the larva and perfect state frequents this plant, in that 

 vicinity. 



10. Listera ovata. 



Penmanshiel Wood, rare ; in the bog between the Blake- 

 laws ; Howpark Wood ; Coldingham Moor adjoining the Press 

 plantations. 



