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eastern side of the stream ; the highest ones being of a blue 

 colour — opposite Edington Mill — in which are veins of red 

 Selenite and fibrous Gypsum. The scaur lower down is still 

 more lofty and precipitous and is of a red colour, and is 

 situated immediately below Hutton Hall mill mill-dam, the 

 colour being owing to a reddish soil having been washed over 

 the face of the cliff. This scaur is seen for miles, and is a con- 

 spicuous object from the village of Chirnside. A little farther 

 down the stream, on the Chirnside side, is a most precipitous 

 bank covered with brushwood, and brambles and whins, 

 named the Cripple-nick. On this bank, from its commence- 

 ment to where it ends, the Lathyrus sylvestris is to be found 

 in profusion, its dense patches being in July covered with 

 beautiful flowers ; now, however, we only get it in fruit. A 

 little farther down on the haugh is the station for the White 

 Musk Mallow ; which my second son has also found opposite 

 Whitehall since the meeting of the Club. The Lathyris 

 sylvestris is a very rare plant in Scotland, and this is 

 certainly about the only place where it does grow. On the 

 haugh immediately above this several good plants are to be 

 found, e.g. : Sium angustifolium, Schoenus compressus, Po- 

 tamogeton pusillum, Myosotis palustris and ccespitosa, 

 Anacharis alsinastrum, and Scirpus lacustris. On the red 

 scaur the Epilobium angustifolium, the beautiful Vicia 

 sylvatica and Origanum vulgare occur along with Tana- 

 cetum, Artemisia, and Pyrethrum Parthenium ; and on the 

 sandy pasture on the same side immediately above the red 

 scaur, Convolvulus arvensis. The Melilotus major grew on 

 the same bank with the Lathyrus sylvestris, but I have failed 

 to find it this season. The precipices in June and July were 

 clothed with brilliant blue beds of the Lycopsis, which were 

 certainly rivals to any blue garden bedders we possess. Mr. 

 Wilson mentioned that at the foot of the bank below his 

 house he had come on a collection of cockle-shells, fish-bones, 

 and pieces of charcoal ; and it is conjectured, this may have 

 been a family feasting place of the ancient Britons, several 



