3fi LEPIDIUM. THLASPI. 



also the date of my love of the writings of Linnseus. My native 

 guides described the plant with cold and accurate precision, — it grew 

 on walls and dry banks, — and it flowered in March a,nd April ; but 

 I was dissatisfied, for I had not before even seen the flower that now 

 so much interested me, and I looked on it as the harbinger of other 

 pleasures. So I went to Linnseus, and he told me that I was right 

 to complain, and he spoke to my feelings. He said — " Campos ste- 

 riUssimos ssepe integros albis stellatisque suis floribus obvestit et ex- 

 hilarat prima in aprico florens." — " Dum floret, Secale vernum serunt 

 Smolandi." — "Noctu et ad imbres evitandos coma nutat."— And I 

 walked forth in the evening happy to verify an observation, the ac- 

 curacy of which is not vitiated surely by the poetry of the language 

 in which it is recorded. 



48. Lepidixjm latifolium. — D. Sandstone quarry above the 

 old ford at Norham, Miss Douglas. I gathered it there in July 

 1850, and again in 1852. It is a curious habitat for a plant said to 

 grow in " saltish marshes." 



49. L. CAMPESTRE. — B. Banks of Dunglass-dene, Rev. A. Baird. 

 Lumsdene dean, J. Hardy. — N. Lime quarries at Lowick, Dr. F. 

 Douglas. 



50. L. Smithii, Hook, and Am. 37. Phytologist for 1848, 

 p. 210. L. hirtum, Sm. — "Road-side nearWhitekirk, Berwickshire," 

 Dr. M'=Nab. Plentiful in the bed of the Leader near Lauder. 

 July-Aug. 



51. Teesdai^ia nudicaulis. — The members of the Club have 

 gathered this plant in abundance in the vale of Langley-ford ; in 

 the bed of the College ; and on debris near the summit of Yever- 

 ing-Bell. — R. In the bed of the Bowmont for miles above and below 

 Yetholm." — No station for it has been yet detected in Berwickshire 

 or in N. Durham. June- July. 



52. Thlaspi arvense. Penny-Cress. — One or more specimens 

 may be annually picked up in corn-fields in the vicinity of Berwick ; 

 but you meet with them accidentally. It seems more frequent in 

 the west of the district. A considerable number of specimens were 

 procured by the Club in the neighbourhood of Greenlaw in the sum- 

 mer of 1843. The Rev. A. Baird had previously noticed it sparingly 

 in the dry channel of the Bowmont ; but in the summer of 1850 it 

 appeared unexpectedly, and, much to his surprise, in vast numbers, 

 in a field near to the manse of Yetholm which had long lain undis- 

 turbed. In 1852 the weed remains in undiminished numbers. I 



in flower, to have been blooming for two or three weeks. I brought home 

 several plants of it ; one is now before me, growing and flourishing with 

 plenty of earth on a sixpence : it has nineteen leaves, and five full-blown 

 flowers, yet no part of it extends to the circumference of the sixpence. Is 

 not this the smallest flowering plant known ? It has long been a favourite 

 of mine, and year after year the first plant I find of it is brought home, 

 and commonly killed with kindness." Letters of Rusticus of Godalming, 

 p. 1 16. 



