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



It is the Geranium Romanum versicolor sive striatum, of Parkin- 

 son's Paradisus, published in 1629. He makes no remark about 

 it; neither does Morison who copies him. Dr. Thomas Johnson 

 in his journey of 1634, saw it growing at Bath, in the garden of 

 George Gibbs, a very worthy man. (''honestissimus vir "). He 

 calls it ' ' Geranium Romanum variegatum. ' ' The Ley den botanic 

 garden possessed it in Boerhaave's time. (Index alter Plantarum, 

 L, 265, A.D. 1727). 



7. Saglna ciliata, Fries. 



Mr. J. G. Baker, of Kew, in July, pointed out this to me, in 

 the pasture, near the side of Wooler water, not far from the end 

 of the wood bridge, at Wooler. Professor Oliver first gathered 

 it in that vicinity. In October, I met with it by the side of the 

 same stream, in the Langleyford vale, considerably above Care- 

 burn Bridge, on ground that both Mr. Baker and I had travelled 

 over in July ; so easy it is to miss minute plants where we don't 

 expect them — in old ground. I have examined the plants grow- 

 ing at the slate quarry, Oldcambus, recorded as S. apetala. They 

 are of late autumnal growth, and not in a good state, but they 

 have a more upright habit, and the capsules don't "hang the 

 pensive head," like many of those in S. ciliata. I take the Ber- 

 wickshire plant for S. apetala, till fresh specimens of both are 

 compared. " Saginse in vivo observandse sunt nee ad specimina 

 sicca determinandee." Fries, Novitia? Florae Suecicoe, Ed., 2, 

 p. 60. 



8. Cistopteris dentata, Dicks. 



Hab. " Cockburn Law." 



Mr. Dickson first separated this from C. fragilis ; his specimens 

 being ** discovered in clefts of rocks in the Highlands of Scot- 

 land." ("Withering's Ai-rangement, III., p. 776). It is plentiful 

 there, according to Gardiner's Flora of Forfarshire, p. 220. 

 "The extreme forms of these beautiful and delicate ferns, i.e., 

 C. fragilis, and C. dentata, aj^pear distinct enough to the eye, but 

 fronds with pinnse and pinnules of all intermediate shapes occur, 

 so that one feels it often difficult which name to apply." (Wm. 

 Gardiner). A plant of this now in Mr Wightman's rockery, 

 was found by him somewhere in the Wooler district. 



9. Cistopteris angustata, Smith. 



Hab. " On an old wall near Lintlaw." 



This the Polypod. rhaticum of Dickson was also first detected by 

 him in the Scottish Highlands. I have compared the disputed 

 figure of Clusius, Pannon., p. 706, and Hist., 2., 212, and repro- 

 duced in Gerard Emac, 1142, and agree with Sir J. E. Smith 

 that the author intended this plant. It was therefore known 

 before 1683, Both it and C. dentata are now considered varieties 

 of C. fragilis. Fronds of both were sent by a fern cultivator, 

 but his name has not transpired. 



