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Glyceria aquatica 



Triglochin palustre 



Narthecium ossifragum 



Carex glauca 



C. laevigata. Gordon bogs 



0. teretiuscula. Allanton banks 



C. riparia. Do. 



C. pulicaris. Gordon 



0. csespitosa. Gordon 



Sparganium simplex 

 S. ramosum 

 Briza media 

 Melica ccerulea 

 Typha latifolia 

 Potamogeton oblongum 

 P. natans 



Hydrocotyle vulgaris 

 Menyanthes trifoliata 

 Pbragmites communis 



From tbe foregoing list it will be perceived wbat a good 

 botanical field the central district of Berwickshire affords, 

 and I feel convinced that, with still farther research, many 

 rarities are yet in store to the man with " the keen crypto- 

 gamic eye." In conclusion I found the Epipactis latifolia in 

 tolerable abundance in the Blackadder woods this summer, 

 and Dr. Maclagan found the same plant at Broadmeadows, 

 in the parish of Hutton, both new stations for this plant in 

 Berwickshire. I picked two specimens of the Trollius 

 Europseus near Broomdykes ; but I am sorry that the plant 

 is now all but exterminated from a place where the late Dr. 

 Johnston reports it associated with the Galium boreale in 

 his Natural History of the Eastern Borders. The latter 

 plant is still plentiful. 



Account of some rare Genera and Species of Plants found 

 by the sides of the Tweed and Gala, in 1868. By G. C. 

 A. Stuart, Student of Medicine, Edinburgh University. 



{Read at the Chirnside Meeting, September 24th, 1868). 



During the course of my botanical rambles round Melrose 

 I have found a considerable number of plants, which have 

 not been recorded as occurring in the district, and amongst 

 these several, which one would not expect to find here, but 

 which, in fact, must have been recently introduced. Reserv- 

 ing the more extended list of Phanerogamous plants and Ferns 

 for publication in another year, I shall in this paper give an 

 account of the strange plants of recent introduction. 



Medicago. — Mr. A. Jerdon in July last found Medicago 

 denticulata at Highfield among gravel, which I believe had 

 been brought from the Tweed ; and subsequently Mr. A. 

 Curie, along with Mr. Wm. Boyd, found Medicago maculata 



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