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Anchusa sempervirens, L. Road-side near Old Greenlaw ; 

 Makerston Woods ; road-side near Clifton-cote, Bowmont 

 Water; Hirsel Woods, &c. 



Symphytum officinalis, var. patens, Slbth. Tweedside at Rose- 

 bank ; Bemersvde, &c. ; sides of Eden. 



,, tuberosum, L. Newtondon Woods, on banks below 



the Linn; Makerston, near Trows Crags. 



Asperugo procumbens, L. A straggler in Lillies lane, Kelso. 



Solanum nigrum, L. Not uncommon as a weed of cultivated 

 ground about Kelso ; Mr. T. Henderson also finds it as a 

 garden weed at Middlethird. 



Lathr^ea squamaria, L. This curious looking parasite seems to 

 be increasing in this district. Last spring it was in abundance 

 in several places where formerly there were only a few plants : 

 it apparently prefers poplars. Lochton, Sharpitlaw, Rose- 

 bank, Maxwellheugh Mill, &c. 



Veronica Montana, L. Common in low moist woods on Tweed- 

 side: Rabbit-braes Plantation; Hendersyde, Springwood Park, 

 and Makerston Woods ; Rutherford Plantations, &c. 

 ,, Buxbaumii, Ten. Every where common in this district. 



Scrophularia Ehrharti, Stev. It is this species, not aquatica, 

 that is so plentiful on the Eden. I have not observed typical 

 aqitatica=zBalbisii, Horn., in that part. 



Verbascum Thapsus, L. Banks of Tweed at Lees, Floors, and 

 Makerston ; Kale Water near Grubbit braes. 



Mentha viridis and piperita are frequently met with, some- 

 times in large beds, both on the river and ditch sides, often 

 outcasts of the garden. A short distance above Heathpool 

 Linn, there is a large patch on each side of the College, of a 

 large, broad, coarsely sei rate-leaved Mint*, which if not alope- 

 curoides approaches very near it. Our Border Menthce sadly 

 want clearing up. Most likely the Heathpool Linn plant is an 

 escape, as Mr. Hardy has seen the same in shepherds' gar- 

 dens. Straggling plants of M. variegata, Sole, are to be picked 

 up on Tweedside, but there is no doubt of it being an escape. 



Galeopsis Ladanum, L. Field at Ednam, August, 1860 ; I have 

 not seen it since in this district. 



Lamium intermedium, Fries. Cultivated ground, Kelso. 



Stachys Betonica, Bmth. Oxnam Water above Crailing (G. 

 Robertson). Rare in this district. 

 ,, ambigua, Sm. Tweedside near Shepherd's Bush. 

 ,, arvensis, L. Frequent in cultivated land : Kelso, 

 Ednam, Harperton, Highridgehall, Trows, etc. 



* I noticed (1874) a patch of this a little below Southern-knowe when 

 crossing the College ; also in an islet of Wooler Water at the turn going up 

 to Coldgate Mill; and as a garden outcast at Middleton Hall shepherd's 

 house.— J. H. 



