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Localities for some rare Berwickshire Plants, with other 

 Remarks. By John Anderson, Preston. 



PLANTS. 



Eeodium cicutaeium. On some steep sandy banks at Primrose- 

 hill. 



Seligeeia eecuevata. On a small piece of red sandstone opposite 

 Cockburn Mill. 



Diceantjm spueium. A single tuft on an earth-capped dike be- 

 tween Preston and Hoardweil. 



ceispum et D. etjfescens. On wet rocks of Old Eed 



Sandstone on the side of Lintlaw-burn. 



Pottia mintjtula. On clay fields, Preston. 



Didymodok flexifolius. On an earth-capped dike, Hoardweil ; 

 and in the woods at Brockholes on a black soil. 



Geimmia Doniana. Tufts of this moss are to be found here and 

 there on most of the old dikes on Preston, Lintlaw, and Hoard- 

 weil. 



Teteaphis pelltjclda. On rotten oak stumps, in the old Brock- 

 holes wood, opposite Kenton House. 



Beyum alpintjm. On the side of an old track where a sheet of 

 ice lies the most of the winter, Drakemire Moor. 



Beytjm stellaee. On rocks; Hoardweil and near Cumledge 

 House. 



Anomodon vitictjlosus. A single patch which does not appear 

 ever to get much larger, on rocks above Preston-bridge ; and 

 in greater plenty above Cockburn Mill, in company with 

 Zygodon viridissimus. 



Hypnum pumilttm. Damp rocks covered with a sort of red clay, 

 Cockburn Mill. 



MUEALE. On loose tumbling stones lying among wet 



mud, Cockburn Mill. 



ieeigttum. On stones in most of our burns. 



ocheacetjm. On rocks at the side of the Whitadder, 



below Edin's Hold. 



Silesiactjm. A single piece of this moss was gathered 



by Mr Robert Patterson, Dunse, somewhere in the Dunse 

 Castle woods, and was verified by the Eev. John Fergusson. 

 It has been repeatedly sought for since, but not to any pur- 



