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la its distribution ; and may be seen in many a Merse dean, and in 

 those of the coal formation in N. Durham. It is a beautiful plant, 

 flowering throughout the summer. 



114. G. PRATENSE. Wtltt ©eranium. Banks of rivers, burns 

 and ditches, frequent, and scattered over the district. Summer. An 

 infusion of the herb has been successfully used in chronic fluxes. 

 See Hist. Berw. N. Club, ii. p. 1 76. 



115. G. LuciDUM. On rocks in deans, uncommon. — B. Banks 

 of the Eye opposite Netherbyres, Rev. A. Baird. Between Reston 

 and Covey-heugh, A. A. Carr. On the Whiteadder below Cockburn- 

 law. Birgham wood. Dr. R. D. Thomson. Old walls at Dryburgh. 

 — R. Walls at Pinnacle-hill and Gateshaw, Dr. F. Douglas. Abun- 

 dant on Stitchell linn. — N. In the dean above Akeld in profusion. — 

 Summer. A pretty plant with glossy red-tinted leaves and rose- 

 coloured flowers, but it exhales a disagreeable smell. 



116. G. ROBERTiANUM. JSivJj's-diEpe I WiiVa (©tranium, and 

 sometimes dfoj.v@tramum, — a name which the species has received 

 from the disagreeable scent of its leaves. " Tota planta ssepe rubra 

 evadit ; odor hircum redolet." Linnaeus. — On ruins, on heaps of 

 stones in shaded places, on old dikes in deans or with a northern ex- 

 posure, in sloe brakes, " in the bodies of trees that are cut down," 

 and in hedges with a dry bottom. It may often be seen in perfection 

 on the thatched roof of old cottages, and on their crumbling walls, 

 holding on by a slender root that dips between the clay chinks. A 

 pretty white variety was gathered in Dunglass-dean, June 30, 1846, 

 Sir Walter C. Trevelyan finds, growing on the old shingle above Shel- 

 drake Bay in Holy Island, a varietjf (/3. pinguescens) which has as- 

 sumed the character of G. lucidum in its fleshy shining leaves almost 

 destitute of hairiness, and hence also with only a faint trace of the 

 peculiar smell of the ordinary state of the species. 



117. G. MOLLE. Waste grounds and new pastures, common. A 

 summer weed that gains increase in beauty as the autumn declines to 

 meet the winter in November. 



118. G. pusiLLUM. Waste grounds, rare. B. Sides of the foot- 

 path below Castle-hills, abundantly. June-Sept. 



119. G. DissECTUM. Road-sides, and a common weed in new 

 pastures on a light soil. Summer. 



120. G. COLUMBINUM. Rare. B. In a field near Penmanshiel, 

 J. Hardy. (R. Minto-crags, Dr. F. Douglas.) 



121. Erodium cicutarium. Don Gard. Diet. i. 722. Dry 

 sandy pastures, earth-capt dikes, and waste grounds, common. The 

 variety with white flowers is very common on the links of N. Durham, 

 Summer. 



14, Geranium phseum. B. "Banks of the Eden near Stitchell," A. A. 

 Carr. — N. In Twizell-house dean, but planted there ; nor have I ever seen 

 this " alien " species beyond the sight of the garden. 



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