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not find the Lottia mrginea in these pools. Does the Acmcea 

 take its place here ? 



4. BoREus HYEMALis. October the 21st, 1865, I found 

 this insect crawling among moss on a rock on the hills above 

 Hazelridge. This would be the epoch of its appearance, as 

 it had not acquired its full colour. It was much on the 

 alert, and attempted to bite in defence of its liberty. 



5. CuviERiA PHANTOPTJS. A Cockburnspath fisherman 

 brought this curious Holothurian, which had swallowed his 

 bait in deep water, forty miles off St. Abb's Head. I saw 

 another at Coldingham, brought in with the boats. 



6. GooDYERA REPENS. FoUowiug up Mr. Boyd's dis- 

 covery of this in Roxburghshire, it is satisfactory to learn 

 that this interesting Orchis has been detected in the original 

 field of the Club, and on a spot that must have been more 

 than once examined by several of its founders — viz., Buncle 

 "Wood. It was brought to light there, about two years since, 

 by John Anderson, a workman in the woods of the Earl of 

 Home, who by his own unaided efibrts has taught himself 

 the names of most of the Border plants falling under his 

 observation. I visited the wood on the 12th August, when 

 the plant was going out of flower. It was growing in pro- 

 fuse patches near the east end of the wood (Sligh-houses, 

 once the patrimony of Hutton, the geologist, being near at 

 hand), in a somewhat dampish, poor clayey soil, under the 

 shade of fir trees. The spot where it was first found, lay at 

 some distance to the west, in " Buncle Old Wood," on some 

 hummocky ground, inclining to peat, with heath and Melica 

 ccerulea growing about, underneath a clump of aged Scotch 

 pines, now all cut down. The Goodyera grew on the dry 

 tumps, for there are bits of bog in several places, in great 

 luxuriance, when first noticed; but except in spring it is not 

 now visible there, being unable to withstand the parching 

 sunbeams which scorch it up ; but when the ground is 

 replanted, it will most likely recover itself in the shade that 

 appears to be so very congenial to it. Outlying patches of 

 the plant have been seen by J. A. behind the cottage of 

 Lintlaw-burn, and in one of the Brockholes plantations, near 

 the march between Brockholes and Drakemire. 



This same Buncle Wood (a planted fir-stripe, and not a 

 remnant of that primeval forest that sheltered Wallace, as 

 Blind Harry tells us, when in pursuit of Cospatrick), con- 

 tains also, Pyrola minor, Lastrcea spinulosa, Polypodium 

 Phegopteris, and Listera cordata ; and some fine raspberries 



