78 Mr. Stuart's Account of some rare Plants. 



Isle of Wight, where I have also gathered it, it attains to two 

 or three times the size it reaches here. In the month of 

 August, when I first found it, it was in seed ; but in the 

 month of September it came again into full flower, and, not- 

 withstanding all the frost and cold weather we have had, 

 it was still, on October 20th, as healthy and strong and 

 as fully in flower as it was in the warmest part of this 

 exceedingly warm summer. Should the place on which 

 it at present grows remain untouched by the improver's hand, 

 it is, I feel confident, certain to become permanent in this 

 district ; in fact it has all the appearance of an established 

 plant already, there being at present several hundreds of 

 good strong plants bearing flowers and fruit. It has not, I 

 believe, been gathered in Scotland before ; and Mr. Syme 

 says : " it is probably only truly wild in the south-west of 

 England and in Ireland, though it has been found as far north 

 as Yorkshire." 



Daucus gummifer, L., I have found by the river side 

 here ; it is a very rare plant growing on the sea shore of the 

 south of England ; it is unlikely that it will become permanent 

 with us. " 



Of Galium anglicum, Huds., Dr. Dewar and myself 

 found one specimen growing among the shingle by the side 

 of the Tweed on Low Wood estate. It is a rare plant, 

 apparently confined to the counties of Kent., Essex, Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, and Cambridge. 



Of Valerianella eriocarpa, Desv., I found a solitary 

 specimen in the bed of the Gala a little below Galashiels. 

 Mr. Syme says : " it is very rare, and perhaps only accident- 

 ally introduced into Britain." Babington and Sowerby give 

 only one place for it, viz., Henley castle and Barnard Green, 

 Worcestershire. 



Cental 1 rea solstitialts, L., I found growing among 

 willow bushes on the banks of the Tweed, not far from Mel- 

 rose. There were but two plants, the larger being at least two 

 feet high, but neither of them unfortunately was fully in 

 flower. It has never been seen in Scotland before, and 

 though found in two or three of the southern counties of 

 England, Kent is the only one where it is persistent. Bab- 

 ington says, " probably introduced." 



Solanum nigrum, L., I found in two places in this dis- 

 trict ; once on the banks of the Tweed not far from Melrose, 

 and again on the Gala not from Galashiels. Mr. Syme says 



