A FLORA 



OF 



THE EASTERN BORDERS. 



Then Mother Flora, to prepare the way, 

 Makes all the field look glorious, green, and gay ; 

 And freely scatters with a bounteous hand 

 Her sweetest, fairest Flowers o'er the land. 



Lucretius, s. Creech. 



Sit mihi floribus 

 Mulcere me fessum, senemque 

 Carpere quos juvenis solebam. 



DICOTYLEDONES. 



Lord Tenterden. 



1. Thalictrtjm minus. — B. In Dulaw dene, and on the banks 

 between it and Redheugh. Sea-coast at Cockburnspath. In the 

 dene between Ayton and Netherbyres ; and on the banks of Ale- 

 water near its termination. — D. Tweed-banks opposite Spring-gar- 

 dens : Spittal links ; and banks beyond Hudshead. — N. Abundantly 

 on Kyloe-crags. — June, July. — Appears to be confined to the eastern 

 parts of our district. Far inland I find it growing in profusion about 

 the Grey- Mare' s-tail in Selkirkshire. 



2. Th. ma jus. — D. Wooded banks of the Tweed opposite Milne- 

 Graden. — R. Banks of the Tweed opposite Dryburgh ; and on the 

 Trows' -crags at Makerston or Malcarnestone, Dr. Frank Douglas. 

 —Aug. 



3. Th. flavum. — Very rare. B. Wood at Netherbyres ; and in 

 Dunglass dene, Rct. A. Baird. — The recent improvements at Nether- 

 byres may have destroyed that habitat. 



4. Anemone NEMOROSA. Wood Anemone. — Abundantly in our 

 denes where the soil is a vegetable mould or mixed with peat : 



" And woos the fairy solitudes 

 Embosom'd in the leafy woods." 



Often found also on our elevated exposed moors, as on Lamberton, 



