278 Mr. J. Hardy on Plants new to Berwickshire. 



New Botanist's Guide, II., p. 449. On Dr. Walker, professor of 

 Natural History, Edinburgh, rests the honour of fixing it in 

 Scottish soil ; "at the head of Loch-na-gaul in Mull." Hooker, 

 Flora Scotica, p. 202. In recent times it has been recorded for 

 Morayshire ; but not free from doubt as to its indigenous claims. 



The great resemblance of this plant to the Wall-flower early 

 caught the botanist's eye. If 0. Bauhin is correct, and he has 

 Sprengel as a follower, the Viola lutea sylvestris of Tragus, is 

 intended for it ; but that good man furnishes no apt tokens 

 whereby to let it be recognised. Wall-flowers were the Violets 

 of those far-off times — that is more than three hundred years ago. 

 Catching the same similitude, Tournefort, Inst. Eei Herb., 224, 

 named it " Turritis Leucoi-folio ;" and some naturalists have 

 even classed it, or varieties of it, as species of Cheiranthus, e.g., 

 Hudson, Lamarck, Willdenow. We thus see how the "Cheiran- 

 thoides " of Linnaeus originated. 



It is very frequent in the Swedish fields; (Hort. Cliff., p. 337) 

 and far north into Lapland, but more sparingly. (Linnseus, 

 Wahlenberg). Linnseus in the Mora Suecica, Ed. 2, p. 234, 

 accounts it a pest. " Yitium est agrorum." C. Bauhin did not 

 fail to remark its abundance in corn fields in the duchy of Wir- 

 temberg; Germany may be reckoned its head quarters. (Eoth. 

 Flor. Germ., I., p. 282). Pallas, in 1763, found it on the Steppes 

 in the south of Eussia. (Travels, I., p. 155., 162.) It grows 

 also in "Siberia, and North America; but it does not grow 

 further south than the south of France." (Sprengel, in the 

 Philosophy of Plants, p. 407). 



4. Corallorhiza innata, E-. Brown. 



Hab. I have to thank William Shaw, of Gunsgreen Hill, for 

 this very interesting addition to the Flora. He came upon it in 

 July, in a wood on the roadside between Alemill and Whitfield ; 

 most likely a moist wood on a tenacious clayey soil. 



The Corallorhiza was discovered by Clusius in August, 1578, 

 at the base of Mount Etscher, in a gloomy fir wood, where scarcely 

 any other plant but itself was produced. Stirp. Pannon., p. 429. 

 Five years had elapsed, when, under the guidance of a huntsman, 

 he found it flowering in August, under firs and beeches, on the 

 Sneberg ; and then again in June, 1589, in a wood near Frank- 

 fort-on-the-Maine ; in both instances much more copiously flower- 

 ing, than in the dwarf plant he figures in his Pannonia, and Stirp. 

 Hist., II., 120. His name Dentaria coralloide radice furnished the 

 key note to its future nomenclature. "Admiranda naturae" 

 remarks Mentzel in his Pugillus, "in hac plantula quoque 

 observantur, dum corallia rubra et colore et specie externa in 

 hujus plantulse radice efformata ad vivum exemplar conspici- 

 untur." Thence arose Eupp's Orohanche spuria seu Coi-allorhiza, 

 Eupp, Jenens., Ed. 1., p. 284. Eupp's genus was defined by 



