128 Miscellanea. 



appeared to be in search of some chink, into which it could 

 enter to devour it. Its association with ant's nests appears 

 to be predatory. — Ibid. 



Lime-Galls. — August 5. Dr. Douglas sent from Kelso a 

 leaf of Lime-tree, sprinkled over the upper surface with pro- 

 jecting spindle-shaped brown galls. Several of them are 

 crooked, and they are all curved at the tips. They open 

 from pale pubescent specks on the underside of the leaf. 

 There is nothing inside the galls but a fluffy fibrous tissue. 

 The galls are produced by families of young mites, and are 

 analogous to those minute short-stalked leaf-galls seen on 

 the sloe and bird-cherry. Mr. F. Walker, in noticing the 

 Lime-gall in the " Entomologist " for February, 1874, says, 

 " it is uncertain whether this Acarus, or mite, is identical 

 with one or other of two kinds of mites which often occur 

 under lime-leaves — the green Tetranychus Tiliarum, and 

 the little white Acarus, which transfers to itself the hollow 

 remnants of the Aphides, whose contents have been already 

 appropriated by the Aphidii." It was more than usually 

 plentiful at Kelso, in 1873. — Ibid. 



Orchis mascula, var. Flor. alb. — In profusion, growing 

 in strong clay in Fish wick Mains dean ; very rare, according 

 to Professor Balfour. This is a perfect gem, and worth going 

 to see in the third week in May. — C. Stuart, M.D. 



O. incarnata, L. — This, which is considered a good 

 species on the Continent, and described in Prof. Babington's 

 " Manual," but without any recognition of its distribution on 

 the Borders, I have long been familiar with as growing in 

 the peaty marshes in the bogs on Colclingham Moor. It also 

 occurs in the bog at Spindlestone, near the pond ; but it is 

 not alluded to in the " New Flora." Mr. G. C. A. Stewart, 

 many years since, gathered it near Melrose. — J. Hardy. 



Scutellaria galericulata. — In a bog at the foot of 

 Yevering Bell ; said to be rare in that quarter. 



Crepis succis^efolia. Wooded banks of Wooler water, 

 above Old Langlee. 



Carduus heterophyllus. — In the meadows near the 

 mouth of the Pebble Burn. Ibid. 



