402 Meetings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, by J. Hardy. 



Borders " for its popular name, and his attempt at explanation is 

 a good example of misapplied ingenuity. "Yevering Bells, 

 Latin tintinnabulum terra,' 1 ' he says, " from the resemblance of its 

 flowers to little bells hung one above the other to be struck with 

 a hammer, as we see in medieval pictures of King David. Yever- 

 ing is usually spelt Tethering, from Scotch y ether, beat." 



I have learned that ancient graves, of which no account has 

 been kept, had in the memory of old people been discovered on 

 Yeavering farm. Mr Kiddle, the present tenant, writes that, in 

 ploughing, "there have been thrice taken up what appeared to 

 be old graves. These were roughly built of stone, being about 

 3 feet by 2 feet, and lying from east to west. One contained 

 about a handful of burned wood, and a very small portion of 

 bone." 



Mr Brotherston has supplied me with a note of what he ob- 

 served on his way to or at the meeting. " Trollius Europmus was 

 found in a plantation at the Muirhouse (between Kelso and Yet- 

 holm) ; Sambucus Ebulus, Specularia hybrida, and Thlapsi arvensis, 

 at West Newton. Specularia is new to the district. "When pas- 

 sing West Newton in October, 1877, I picked up a single speci- 

 men on che road-side, and had not time to look for more. When 

 coming to Yeavering, the Eev. Adam Davidson and I examined 

 the weeds in the stackyard, and found plenty of both it and the 

 Penny Cress ; the latter was also plentiful in a field near Yet- 

 holm Manse. Uieracium argenteum was obtained at Heathpool 

 Linn — we did not see H. crocatum. Mentha alopecuroides still 

 keeps its ground on both sides of the College, a short distance 

 above the Linn. Orchis incarnata was plentiful in many of the 

 wet rushy spots, when nearihg Yeavering Bell. C%llitriche 

 hamulata grew in pools below the Linn ; white fox-gloves, and 

 the oak fern and Corydalis claviculata at the Bell. There was a 

 form of Rosa canina, which grows in the hedge between West 

 Newton and Heathpool, which I cannot get a name for." 



In the field at Yeavering adjoining the strip of wood above 

 the public road, that separates Yeavering from Akeld, when Mr 

 Eea farmed the place, a bog was drained, out of which immense 

 quantities of horses' shoes were dug out, and portions of adipo- 

 cere, one fragment being " as large as one's head." These were 

 conjectured to be the relics of the stampede after the fight at 

 Humbleton. This planting is haunted by a " White Lady," a 



