30 NUPHAR. — PAPAVER. 



the same meaning as its synonym CabbagesPafep, and both are de- 

 rived from the resemblance of the flower to a close cabbage-stock. 

 Lucken-gowan, a name of the Trollius mentioned by Allan Ramsay 

 in his " Young Laird and Edinburgh Katy," conveys the same idea, 

 for lucken signifies closed or shut, as in the word Lucken-booths. 

 J. Hardy, Hist. Berw. N. Club, ii. p. 15. — The Globe-flower worthily 

 occupies a place in the garden, and botanists of a future century may 

 dispute its claim to be classed with indigenous plants. 



1. Berberis vulgaris. 33arl)trr». — In hedges and shrubberies oc- 

 casionally, without any pretension to be considered indigenous in the 

 district. 



20. NuPHAR LxiTEA. Ycllow Water-Lily. — B. Coldingham Lough. 

 Abundant in the Eden above Mack's bridge, six miles from Kelso on 

 the Edinburgh road, Dr. F. Douglas. It has been introduced into 

 the pond at Netherbyres, at Dunse Castle, and at Karnes. — R. Yet- 

 holm loch, Eev. J. Baird. 



21 . Papaver argemone. — Corn-fields, rather rare. — July-Sept. 



22. P. rhceas. — William Turner writes in 1551, — "This kind is 

 called in English corn-rose or red corn-rose, and with us it groweth 

 much amongst the rye and barley." It has been very sensibly re- 

 duced both in quantity, and in its distribution, within the present 

 century ; but, in some farms, as in Holy-Island, the JPopp^ still 

 abounds to excess, and imparts a gay hilarity to the sombre corn- 

 fields. It disappears from infested fields when these are laid down 

 in grass, and endures nowhere long if the soil is undisturbed ; but 

 let the ground be disturbed anew by the plough or the spade, no 

 matter at what distant interval, the weed reappears in rich profusion. 

 Of this fact we had an illustration when the railway was made from 

 Berwick to Cockburnspath, and from Tweedmouth to Kelso. The 

 sides of the cut were, in many places, literally clothed in scarlet ; and 

 this was especially the case where the line had been cut through those 

 gravel knolls which some conjecture were deposited towards the ter- 

 mination of what has been called the glacial epoch. Nor need we 

 be hindered from entertaining the belief that the Poppy was amongst 

 the first plants that occupied the naked surface of those knolls, bury- 

 ing therein the seeds of primeval crops to be preserved intact until 

 accident shall bring them up and within the influence of vivifying 

 agents. There is a far-distant antiquity even in one of its provincial 

 names. In the neighbourhood of Gordon I heard this weed called 

 Cocfetno, — evidently from 'coch' the Celtic for scarlet, and hence 

 the name is probably coeval with the early inhabitation of the district. 

 In other parts of Berwickshire the plant is called Cocfe'iiiCOini)^. 

 About Wooler it was wont to be called the d^unlJtrsflototr or lttg{)t- 

 ningS ; and children were afraid to pluck the flower, for if, perchance, 

 the petals fell oif in the act, the gatherer became more liable to be 



very prepossessing. Dr. Thompson subsequently went to Jamaica, where 

 he practised medicine for a few years ; but declining health at length com- 

 pelled him to leave that island for America. He had not been long there, 

 when the cholera broke out, with fatal violence, at New Orleans ; and my 

 friend was one of its victims. He died on the 23rd of May 1833. 



