A Roxburghshire Locality for Andromeda polifolia L. 

 By the Rev. George Gunn, M.A., Stichill. 



For the meeting of the Club at Newcastleton, on Slst 

 July 1895, Mr John Elliot, since elected one of our 

 Associate Members, prepared a " Selection from a list of a 

 few of the Plants indigenous to the Liddesdale district of 

 Roxburghshire," all of which he had found himself. This 

 list is printed at pp. 233-234 of the Proceedings of that 

 year. He made no mention of Andromeda polifolia L. in it. 

 In conversation with some of the members at that meeting, 

 he stated that he had since discovered another plant, which 

 he did not recognise, and of which he had unfortunately 

 brought no specimens. In the course of the autumn, he 

 intimated to Dr Hardy that that plant was Andromeda 

 polifolia, and that this was a new record for Roxburghshire. 



In the summer of 1896, some of our members accompanied 

 him to the place on the roadside between Langholm and 

 Newcastleton, where it was growing luxuriantly. 



It was thought advisable to hold a meeting of the Club 

 itself at Newcastleton, in the year after, in order that those 

 specially interested in botany may have an opportunity of 

 seeing this plant in situ, or of searching for it in other parts 

 of the moor. The Club met there accordingly on the 23rd 

 and 24th August, as may be read at p. 273 of the present 

 part of our Proceedings. Under the guidance of Mr John 

 Elliot, and along with Mr Symington Grieve, Kershope, the 

 members found the Andromeda growing in two other widely 

 separated parts of the moor. Its trailing branches were 

 interlacing large tracts of Sphagnum. It is not unlikely 

 that further search will discover it in the damp flows of 

 that wide area. 



It has also to be recorded as occurring in a locality 

 adjoining the district visited by the Club. The Rev. 

 James C. Meiklejohn, minister emeritus of the U.P. Church, 

 Chapelknowe, informs Dr Craig, the Secretary of the 

 Scottish Alpine Botanical Club, and "one of us," that it is 



