7£ Mr. Charles Stuart's Botanical Notes. 



bell-shaped, graceful, fragrant, and drooping. The foliage 

 seems almost evergreen from its glossiness. No description 

 which I can give can come up to the exceeding beauty of this 

 plant/as I had the good fortune to see it on the 2nd of July; 

 and I will not deny that I felt a certain degree of botanical 

 enthusiasm when resting on the occasion, after a fatiguing 

 walk, among its fragrance, and calling to mind the associa- 

 tions connected with its name. Linnseus selected this little 

 Northern plant, " long overlooked, depressed, abject, flower- 

 ing early," as most appropriate to transmit his name to 

 posterity. 



Associated with Dr. Maclagan we visited Gordon a fort- 

 night afterwards, and found the Linnsea still in flower but 

 beginning to fade. We subjected the fir wood to a close 

 examination, and again found the Goodyera repens in pro- 

 fusion, and also the Listera cordata in company with its 

 relative in abundance. The Listera cordata is by no means 

 a common plant anywhere, but in this wood it seems to be 

 more plentiful than in any other station I am acquainted 

 with. After a long walk in the woods we set out to examine 

 the Gordon bogs, where a number of good plants were obtained, 

 a list of which I have appended. Mr. Hardy informs me 

 that the moors between Gordon and Lauder have never been 

 carefully explored, and are well worthy of farther examina- 

 tion. In another season some notes from that quarter may 

 prove interesting. 



LIST OF PLANTS. 



Linneea borealis, Listera cordata, and Goodyera repens in 

 a fir wood due south of the farm-house of Lightfield. In the 

 bogs to the north of the farm-house and along the sides of 

 the railway are to be found : — < 



Ranunculus sceleratus 

 R. hederaceus 

 E. flammula 

 E. aquatilis 

 Hippuris vulgaris 

 Stellaria glauca 

 Genista anglica 

 Montia fontana 

 Cnicus palustris 

 Comarum palustre 

 Crepis paludosa 

 Sparganium natans 



Penguicula vulgaris 

 Myosotis palustris 

 M. sylvatica 

 Mentha hirsuta 

 Eleocharis palustris 

 E. pauciflora 

 Parnassia palustris 

 Hypochseris radicata 

 Viola palustris 

 Habenaria bifolia 

 Orchis latifolia 

 0. mascula 



