210 Mr, Hardy's Botanical and Zoological Notes. 



a building, or an outrigger to a boat. It is a most beautiful 

 provision to give stability on a flat surface. 



Without calling in the agency of frost upon a freshly satu- 

 rated soil, we may be sure that the naked earth in winter is 

 very frequently too cold for so small a bird to rest upon it in 

 close contact with the body, and that in reality Larks do often 

 roost in a standing or cowering posture, and always facing 

 the wind. 



The other birds that haunt similar open unsheltered ground, 

 such as the Snipes and Plovers, are all nocturnal feeders, 

 active and in motion during the coldest hours. The Buntings 

 participate, in a minor degree, in the ground-roosting habits 

 of the Larks, and are furnished like them with an elongated 

 hind-claw, though less fully developed. 



Botanical and Zoological Notes and Localities. 

 By James Hardy. 



I. BOTANICAL. 



Pap AVER DUBTUM, At Horton and Hetton the seed-pods 

 of this were swollen to twice their usual size, some of them 

 being quite globular, with the interior fleshy and full of sap, 

 by the attacks of a family of larvse in the interior, apparently 

 those of a Cynips, but too immature to decide, 



Viola hirta. Kyloe Crags. 



DiANTHUS DELTOiDES. Hcathpool Linn, north side. 



ViciA SYLVATICA, In Roddam Dean. In a visit to this 

 dean in July 1860, following the foot-path I found the follow- 

 ing good plants; which it may be as well to enter on the 

 Club's records, as the locality will well repay a visit. Hier- 

 acium murorum, H. suhaudum, Myosotis sylvatica, Crepis 

 succiscefolia, Melica unijlora, Buhus saxatilis, Campanula 

 latifolia, Polystichum aculeatum, Carduus heterophyllus. 



Epilobium angustifolium. Heathpool Linn. 



HiERACiuM suBAUDUM. Woolcr Water below Langley- 

 ford ; Heathpool Linn ; junction of Broadstruther and Com- 

 mon Burns. 



Crepis succis^folia. Not uncommon in the Cheviot 

 district. On the College at Heathpool, and on Wooler water 

 below Langleyford. 



Carduus nutans. Middleton Hall Shepherd's House ; 

 Hetton where there is a white var, ; Eoseden. A good Ber- 

 wickshire name for it is " Queen Anne's Thrissil." 



