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when officinalis usually dies off, but arvensis keeps throwing 

 out in profusion its pretty racemes of light yellow flowers until 

 killed by the frost. By examining either the flowers or pods 

 they are easily distinguished. In officinalis the petals are equal 

 in length, and the pods are compressed, reticulate, and hairy ; 

 while in arvensis the wings and standard are longer than the 

 keel, the pods being rounded, transversely ribbed, obtuse and 

 glabrous. 



Astrolobiitm scorpioides, D.C. Tweedside, introduced with wool, 

 and probably also with "canary seed," as I picked up a plant 

 on a place where the cleanings of an aviary were sometimes 

 thrown. (Native of Europe). 



Pyrus rttpicola, Syme. Gaitheugh ; when coming down the 

 river side, in July last, along with Captain Norman, we saw 

 several bushes on the rocky precipitous face of the ravine near 

 the upper end. This is scarcely the typical plant ; it has a 

 leaning towards Aria in the number of veins in the leaves ; 

 but it has the obovate leaf and other characteristics of 

 rupicola. 



Pimpinella magna, L. "Very rare, I have only seen a solitary 

 plant on a bank near Kelso. 



Senecio cannabinjefolitjs, Hook, and Am. Introduced with wool 

 to the Gala. Native of Buenos Ayres. 



Anthemis tinctoria, L. The first that I saw of this casual in 

 our district, was a specimen that I got from Mr. T. Henderson, 

 who found it at Berwick, June, 1874. In September following 

 Mr. J. Murray picked up a plant in a field at Wallace-Nick, 

 near Kelso, to which in all probability it was introduced with 

 grass seeds. 



Ceepis tectorttm, L. Roadside near Kelso. By whatever means 

 this interesting plant was introduced (if not wild) it was not 

 by wool, the habitat being out of reach of the river; but 

 it might have come with grass seeds, like several others of the 

 same family. I first found it in 1872, and as none of the 

 descriptions of our British species would fit it, I submitted 

 a specimen (not a good one) to Professor Babington. He 

 thought it was " a form of the polymorphous C. virens." 

 Being at the same place in August last, I procured some more 

 specimens, in a better state for determination ; and, still hav- 

 ing doubts about it, sent examples to the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh, where it was determined to be C. tectorum, L. (not 

 Sm. ) The scarioits ribs of the fruit distinguish it from virens, 

 which has smooth ribs. 



,, Nicjeensis, Ball. Occasionally in pastures, to which it 

 has been introduced with grass seeds. " Comes between C. 

 biennis and C. virens, var. agrestis." — Dr. Boswell Syme. 



Salix undulata, Ehrh. Peatrig bog, near Kelso. 



