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there are two localities for this plant in the same strip of wood at 

 Longformacns. " The second station is in the same wood as the other, 

 namely in the strip of Scots Firs, east of the road running north from 

 Black's-Mill bnrn to Longformacus, and is situated about 200 to 250 yards 

 north from the bridge which crosses the burn. The first station is about 

 200 yards further north, near the top of the hill." 



I conclude these notices with copies of two letters from the late Dr 

 Maclagan of Berwick, bearing on some new localities for rare plants, and 

 the new appearance of plants in previously well searched tracts of 

 familiar districts. The Andromeda was expected to be found on some of 

 the mosses near Flass and that direction. It has not been accomplished yet. 



Berwick-upon-Tweed, 18th October 1889. 

 Dear Mr Hardy, — Some years ago I found Anthemis cotula in a field at 

 Lucker. As you saw it near Warkvrorth, it may possibly be more 

 frequent than has been reported, as it is easily overlooked. When I 

 mentioned Corallorhiza at Whitfield, I should have noted the Ooodyera in 

 the same wood. I wish you could explain, what I think is a fact, the 

 appearance and extention of some plants which have no winged seeds or 

 other locomotive apparatus. For instance Pyrola minor, a plant not easily 

 overlooked, was not recorded near Berwick by Dr Johnston, but at 

 Whitfield it is in profusion, and in the Hag wood at Foulden, near 

 Scremerston, Ancroft, and other places; and I cannot help thinking that 

 Goodyera is gradually creeping southwards. Another migrant, Linaria 

 minor, I never saw twenty or thirty years ago. It is abundant at Beal, 

 Marshall Meadows, Velvet Hall, Ayton — all these on the railway line as 

 if the trains had sown it. I don't think I ever told you of the following. 

 Chenopodium polyspermum, Tweedside at Castle Hills, Lathyriis Aphaca, 

 Trifolium ochroleucum : these two found by Mr Shaw in the neighbourhood 

 of Berwick, in gardens. I think introduced with gravel. Lepidium Draha, 

 a single plant in a field near the sea-banks, found by the Rambling Club. 

 All these are in the Museum collection. 



Believe me, yours very truly, 



P. W. MACLAGAN. 



Berwick-upon-Tweed, 22nd October 1891. 

 Dear Dr Hardy, — I am sorry that I did not know you wanted Linaria 

 minor, but the next time I am at Beal I shall supply your want. It was 

 first, so far as I know, seen by one of my daughters there in 1885, and I 

 have seen it every year since, about the rails on the siding, south of the 

 station. Curiously enough, I saw it at Velvet Hall station, and in 

 abundance on the disused line of railway at Marshall Meadows. Next 

 time I am detained at Burnmouth, not an uncommon event, I shall get 

 Sedum rupestre for you. I am glad to hear of the new stations for Linncea, 

 and I hope you may succeed in finding Andromeda, a prize worth 

 jjeekiug. 



I am, yours sincerely, 



P. W. MACLAGAN. 



