Mr. Hardy's Botanical and Zoological Notes. 211 



Trientalis Europ^a. On Penmanshiel moor behind 

 Greenside hill. Along with Listera cordata at the foot of 

 Collierheugh Crags, (this is the ridge of sandstone between 

 Black Heddon Hill and Kyloe Crags.) 



Clinopodium vulgare. Hetton burn. 



Adoxa moschatellina. In a wood on Wooler water op- 

 posite Middleton Hall Shepherd's House. 



Anomodon curtipendulus. In great abundance investing 

 the base of a thorn in a hedge by the road side above Abbey 

 Park ; and again in a similar locality to the north of Hillend. 



Orchis bifolia. Meadow below Langleyford. Carduus 

 heterophyllus grows there also, and on the Diamond burn 

 where it crosses the public road. 



CoRNUs SuECiCA. In modern times we find the Cornus 

 on the eastern side of the great Cheviot, as we ascend from 

 Broadstruther, growing among the heather in a depression 

 before we take the steep ascent to the summit. That this is 

 Ray's locality admits of doubt; at least it does not accord 

 with that which he indicates. Writing to Lister July 17th, 

 1670, he says, " Tho. Willisell hath been lately here in his 

 return out of the north, and brought with him several rare, 

 and some nondescript plants." One of these was the Cornus, 

 found "on the north-west of the highest of the Cheviot Hills." 

 (Ray's Correspondence, p. 61.) In the Appendix, p. 339, to 

 his Catalogus Plantarum Anglise, London 1670, the locality 

 is specified more precisely. " On the north-west end of the 

 highest of Cheviot hills, among the rocks on the west side 

 plentifully." To its discoverer he bears honourable testimony. 

 Here it was found, " and shown to me this summer by Tho. 

 Willisell, a person employed by the Royal Society in the 

 search of natural rarities, both animals, plants, and minerals ; 

 the fittest man for such a purpose that I know in England, 

 both for his skill and industry." (p. 340.) In the Synopsis 

 Stirpium Britannicarum, 2nd edition, London, 1796, p. 146, 

 the notice is the same, only latinised. '' In Northumbrise 

 montibus Chevioticis dictis, in latere occidentali Septentrio- 

 nalis partis montis altissimi copiosissime." On the western 

 side of the northern part of the highest mountain most abun- 

 dant. Has it still to be looked for in the direction of Hen- 

 hole? 



II. ZOOLOGICAL. 



Harelda glacialis. a pair of the long-tailed Duck was 

 shot in the Harbour Loch, Coldingham Shore, in January, 

 1860. 



