256 Some New Localities for Plants, by A. Brotherston. 



Caeex vesicaeia, L. Not uncommon in boggy places, as at 

 Yetholm Loch, Spylaw Pond, etc. 



Poa compeessa, L. Near Kelso Abbey ; on an old wall at 

 Harperton. 



Glyceeia plicata, Fries. Near Hendersyde East Lodge. Var, 

 pedicellate/, near Ednam. 



Festtjca loliacea, Muds. " Very rare " (East Bord.) Frequent 

 in this district : roadside near Newtonlees ; haugh at Ednam ; 

 Teviot above Roxburgh Castle, and several places on Tweed- 

 side. 



,, gigaxtea, Fill In many of the woods on Tweedside. 



Avexa steigosa, Schreb. In 1873, intermixed, and equally plenti- 

 ful, with the typical plant, in fields to the north from Kelso ; 

 there was a variety with black seeds. Thinking that the 

 colour might perhaps be owing to the stage in which they 

 were gathered, I sowed some seeds of each (black and white) 

 sort. Both came true without any mixture of the other colour 

 amongst them. Has the same variety been observed elsewhere 

 in the district? [Mr. Baker says of this "I never saw the 

 black seeded form before."]* 



Beomus eacemostjs. What is B. racemosus of the " Eastern 

 Borders " ? There is no specimen with the name in Dr. 

 Johnston's Herbarium in Berwick Museum, and only one in 

 Kelso Museum, and it is commutatus, Bab. We have all the 

 forms in this district that there is any chance of confounding 

 under the above name : B. racemosus, Parn. (a variety of mollis 

 now called subglaber) ; Serrafalcus racemosus, Pari. ; and S. com- 

 mutatus, Bab. The two last named plants are different in 

 "Bab. Man.," 6th ed., from those under the same names in the 

 " Stud. Flora." In the latter work the spikelets of commuta- 

 tus are shorter (perhaps this is a printer's error ?) than those of 

 racemosus; while according to Babington it is the opposite. 

 Hayward's "Pocket Book " (a first-rate book for the pocket) 

 follows the " Stud. Flora." 



Teiticum caxixttm, Huds. Plentiful in many of the woods on 

 Tweedside. 



Hoedeum mueixttm, L. Sprouston village. 



Polypodium Deyopteeis, L. On the road-side and in planta- 

 tions north from Hume. 



Asplexiem septexteioxale, Hall. Eocks on Tweedside above 

 Kelso. 



Scolopexdeium velgaee, Sym. Wall at Newtondon. ' ! Euther- 

 ford Plantations." — Dr. J. P. Bookless. 



Boteychium Luxaeia, Sw. Plentiful on links about quarter of 

 a mile south of Sandbank Lime Kiln, near Scremerston, and 

 also in the same sort of habitat near Goswick. 



* Both varieties are already recorded in the Club's "Proceedings," Vol. 

 iv., p. 155 (1859). The black seeded variety is the most common in the 

 East of Berwickshire.— J. H. 



