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Remarks on some New Localities for Rare Plants. By 

 Dr Hardy. 



Milium effusum, L. In December 1889, in one of the deep deans of 

 Penmanshiel, or rather Aikieside wood, I happened to catch a glimpse of 

 the peculiarly dark green of a grass of unaccustomed appearance, which 

 proved to be Miliam effusum, unrecorded hitherto for Berwickshire. It is 

 common in some of the extensive Mid-Lothian woods, and is recorded for 

 Rngley wood, Northumberland. (Tate's Hist, of Alnwick, ii., p. 30). I 

 also gathered it in October 1870, when its characteristic verdure also drew 

 attention in Old Middleton wood, Wooler, and gave an account of its 

 history. Club's Proceedings, vi., pp. 157-9. The new locality is situated 

 in the lower part of a very precipitous concavity of decayed greywacke 

 slate, which is left constantly moist by percolating water. This bank is 

 richly clad in its lowest portion with luxuriant mosses and Jungermanniae, 

 and its sides speckled with tufts of Maiden-hair Ferns and larger sorts. 

 The dry fissures of the rocks are fringed with tufts of Melica uniflora- 

 From the withered panicles I collected a few of the bright polished seeds, 

 and a year afterwards I found a better supply. They are beautiful 

 objects. It is confined here to a space of a few feet only. Carex sylvatica 

 grows on the footpath that crosses the wooded ravine here, at the bottom 

 of the glen, a little below this highly-honoured rock face. It was also the 

 unique locality for Sticta herhacea, Ber. Nat. Club Proceedings, iv., p. 402, 

 which has since disappeared under a slip of the bank. Polystichum 

 Lonchitidoides also used to grow here, as does the type P. aculeatum, by 

 the burn-side not far distant below. 



It is near the field of Oldcambus Townhead, called "The Hope," on one 

 side, and in that part of the wood called '' Brade (Broad) Wood." — The 

 South Cleugh of the old Coldingham pei-ambalation of boundaries (1561) is 

 the lower portion of Red Clues Cleugh. The old farm of Red Clues 

 lay between this North Cleugh and the upper portion of the South Cleugh. 

 The locality is difficult to find. Let no one remove the plant ! 



Cetearia sepincola, Ehrh. This rarish lichen spots the stems of 

 several middle aged beeches at the highest corner of Aikieside, where the 

 extensive view of East-Lothian and the sea-coast is obtained. 



S(iUAMARiA GELiDA occurs not unfrcquently on the steep sandstone by 

 the footpath from the great cave of Shaftoe Crag, leading to East 

 Shaftoe, which I visited June 23rd 1891 , along with Mr R. C. Hedley and 

 his relatives, the Misses Arkle of Highlaws. This is not recorded among 

 the Trevelyan trophies from this famous lichen site. 



NUPHUB MINIMA, see p. 286, present vol., still persists to grow at 

 Chartner's Lake, although recent drainage has diminished the quantity. 

 This was ascertained by Mr J. F. Robinson of Hull, in summer 1892, in 

 a special visit for the purpose. 



LATHBiEA SQUAMABIA, gathered in Bothal wood, was sent me by Mr 

 William Woodman. It had been gathered for the " New Chapell Flower." 



LiNN^A BoBEALis, present vol., p. 386. Mr H. H. Craw informs me that 



