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believe the plant to be one of those original attendants on the cereals 

 which have been nearly eradicated by the cleanliness of modern agri- 

 culture. 



53. T. BVRSA-PASTORis = Capsella bursa-pastoris. ^i)fp]^tri('£i 

 purfit : HatJic^'jpur^riS. — A common weed in waste grounds and on 

 road-sides, flowering during the entire summer. Subject to great 

 variety, but the variations may be reduced to two, viz. (1) radical 

 leaves forming a rosette on the ground and more or less deeply pin- 

 natifid : (2) leaves all cauline and entire. The latter is found prin- 

 cipally in gardens. — Cage birds are fond of the seed, and the weed 

 is often gathered for their use. — " Children have a sort of game 

 with the seed-pouch. They hold it out to their companions, inviting 

 them 'to take a hand o' that.' It immediately cracks, and then 

 follows a triumphant shout — ' You ' ve broken your mother's back.' " 

 J. Hardy. 



54. CocHLEARiA OFFICINALIS, ^ciirbjjsgrasis. — Sea-banks of 

 Berwickshire, very abundantly. — D. Hudshead, Holy-Island. — N. 

 Near the summit of Cheviot in the Henhole and Brizzle. — E. On 

 Melrose Abbey. April-May. 



55. C. DANiCA. — B. Sea-banks between Dulaw and Redheugh, 

 J. Hardy. — D. On the Pinnacles, one of the Fame islands, Dr. Jas. 

 Thompson. — I have been often puzzled with specimens whether to 

 refer them to this or the preceding species. In the 'British Flora' 

 they are made varieties merely of one species. See also Withering's 

 Bot. Arrang. iii. p. 572. 



56. Senebiera coronopus. — Waste grounds. — B. About Ber- 

 wick and Coldingham. — D. About Spittal and Holy-Island. — R. At 

 Haddon village abundant. Dr. F. Douglas. June-Aug. 



57- Cakile maritima. Sea Rocket. — D. Sea-shore from Spit- 

 talouthwards ; and on the shores of Holy-Island, plentiful. — B. On 

 the shore at Coldingham bay, and below the Pease-dean. June- 

 Sept. — A cosmopolite. " Habitat in Europse, Asise, Africse, Ame- 

 ricsB maritimis." Willdenow. 



58. Crambe maritima. ^tci'Wude.—B. On the shore by Fast- 

 Castle in Berwickshire, Dr. Parsons. " It formerly grew so plenti- 

 fully on the shore in that neighbourhood, that the farmer of Lums- 

 dean, Mr. Anderson, used to transplant it into his garden for culinary 

 purposes. In 1830, I observed a few plants of it growing on Lums- 

 dean shore." A. A. Carr, Hist. Coldingham, p. 188. 



9. Camelina sativa. Rarely a stray specimen may be gathered in our 

 district amongst corn, but it has no fixed station. 



10. Cochlearia armoracia = Armoracia rusticana. Horse-Radish. Cul- 

 tivated in gardens, and hence occasioiially escaping to a piece of waste 

 ground that may be lying hard by. 



11. Iberis amara. Candy-tuft. I have gathered it in the bed of Ale 

 water ; and it has been found by Miss Bell at Coldstream and near Laynal 

 church, having sprung from seed carried from the garden. 



