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Localities for some Border Plants. By Andrew Kelly. 



Rumex Alpinus. Among the lonely glades of the East Water, 

 Lauderdale. 



Myrica Gale. Borthwick Shiels. Dwarfish straggling bushes, 

 now and then inclining to a thicket. I have sought for this 

 plant in the high Lammermoors as yet in vain. 



Utricularia vulgaris. In the autumn of 1870, I found great 

 quantities of this curious aquatic drifted to the water edge, at 

 the loch at Newhouses, Hawick. The metamorphosed leaves 

 attached to the roots had singularly large bladders, but not 

 one of them contained insects. 



Milium effusum. In moist, shady woods, Thirlestane Castle, 

 and Blackadder woods ; not rare. This grass has such a bold 

 and striking character, that when once known, it can never be 

 mistaken, even at a distance. It is of a bright apple green 

 colour in summer, and in winter pales down to a straw colour. 



Carex paltjdosa. Moist banks below Allanton Bridge. 



„ riparia. In the same locality, abundant. The fertile 

 spikelets are perfectly black, angular, and pointed, thus dis- 

 tinguishing them effectually from those of paludosa, which are 

 very obtuse. I see, too, that the upper spikelet is the only 

 one that flowers out ; the others flowering only at or about the 

 middle, the black sharp points being left barren. 



Osmunda regalis. Moist, boggy spot at the side of a natural 

 wood, near Spottiswood ; rare. [This is now the only Ber- 

 wickshire locality, the Coldingham moor plant having been 

 taken away.] 



List of Plants found at various dates. By J. A. Eeskine 

 Stuart, Chirnside. 



Aconitum Napellus. In a wood below Ale Mill ; Aug., 1874. 



Saglnta nodosa. Ale Water, below Bee-edge ; Aug., 1874. 



Sedtjm telephium. Side of burn at Burnhouses ; April, 1873. 



Viburnum Opulus. Ale Water, below Bee-edge ; Aug., 1874. 



Calamintha clinopodium. Banks of Ale Water below Ale Mill ; 

 Aug., 1874. 



Plantago maritima. On Ale Water several miles from sea- 

 coast; Aug., 1874. 



Asplenium Trichomanes. In great beauty on the Ale Water 

 below Bee-edge. Some of the fronds were about a foot in 

 length. Aug., 1874. 



Scolopendrium vulgare. Near Chirnside this has within the 

 last few years been picked in many places. It has been found 

 in wells at Hutton Mall and Eoulden West Mains; also, on 

 walls at Maines, Easter Harelaw, Whitehall, Blackadder, 

 and Chirnside Bridge. 



