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struck with lightning ; nor was the risk small, for the deciduousness 

 of the petals is almost proverhial. " And it is called Papaver errati- 

 cum in Latin, in Greek Rhoeas, because the flour falleth away hastily." 

 Turner. — When cultivated, it becomes a beautiful annual. " In hor- 

 tis, ubi florum colore pulcherrime ludit, nempe miniato, sanguineo, 

 purpureo, cameo, niveo toto, cameo per limbum albo, &c." Haller, 

 Flor. Jenen. p. 70. 



23. P. DUBiTJM.— Com-fields, occasionally. The only Poppy in 

 the neighbourhood of Cockburnspath, J. Hardy. — The anthers of 

 our Poppies discharge their pollen by a sht along the edge, previous 

 to the opening of the petals — Hooke, in his Micrographia, p. 155, 

 writes thus of the genus : — " And, methinks. Nature does seem to 

 hint some very notable virtue or excellency in this plant from the 

 curiosity it has bestow' d upon it. First, in its flower, it is of the 

 highest scarlet dye, which is indeed the prime and chiefest colour, 

 and has been in all ages of the world most highly esteem'd : next, it 

 has as much curiosity shew'd also in the husk or case of the seed, as 

 any one plant I have yet met withall ; and thirdly, the very seeds 

 themselves, the microscope discovers to be very curiously shaped bo- 

 dies ; and lastly, Nature has taken such abundant care" for the pro- 

 pagation of it, that one single seed grown into a plant, is capable of 

 bringing some hundred thousands of seeds." 



24. Glatjcixjm luteum. — B. On the shore between Eyemouth 

 and Coldingham ; at Lumsdene ; and between the mouth of the 

 Pease-burn and Dunglass-dene. 



25. Chelidonixjm MAJUS. CtlanBme. — In the vicinity of towns 

 and villages amidst rubbish and ruins, and in hedge-bottoms, not 

 common, but scattered over the district. Plentiful on road-sides to 

 the west of Jedburgh. — Mr. "Watson says, " In Scotland, it is rather 

 an alien than even a denizen." Cyb. Brit. i. p. 108. It is, however, 

 a true denizen vfith us, viz. " at present maintaining its habitats as if 

 a native, without the aid of man, yet liable to some suspicion of having 

 been originally introduced." — The yellow acrid juice is used to remove 

 warts, and specks from the eyes. " I have heard of the leaves and 

 stalk of this plant, boiled up with strawberry leaves, being used with 

 wonderful efficacy in a case of Jaundice by an illiterate empiric in 

 Bervnckshire." Dr. R. D. Thomson. — The correspondency of the 



2. Helleborus viridis. — "Dunglass dean. Dr. Parsons." 



3. Delphinium consolida. — Mr. Winch mentions this as growing " in a 

 clover-field near the Lough on Holy-Island" (Flora North, p. 37), but 

 he himself told me that he saw a single specimen only ; — a waif lost so 

 soon as it was blown. 



4. Aconitum napellus. Monk's-hood. N. Banks of Wooler-water 

 above Haughhead, Jas. Mitchell. The castaway of the garden, and hence 

 often found in the plantations near the seats of our gentry. 



6. Nymphsea alba. White Water-Lily. — About twenty years ago this 

 handsome flower was planted in the pond at Newlands, N., where it throve 

 exceedingly ; and from this source several other ponds in our district have 

 been supplied. 



