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common. Dwarf specimens constitute a considerable proportion of 

 the vegetation of the Hght gravelly haughs which lie along the courses 

 of our upland burns, as, e.g. of the College-burn from Hethpool 

 Linn to its union with the Glen. These specimens are very neat, 

 scarcely more than an inch in height ; and, having only five or six 

 flowerets in a head, they are apt to be mistaken for T. filiforme. 



144. Lotus cobniculatus. CratoHaCiS : Cat'iSsClobtr. — The 

 " Crow-toe " of Milton, and the " Crow-flower " of Drayton, but not 

 the " Craw-flower " of Tannahill. Indeed I am not able to say what 

 the latter is, and it was a favourite plant with this poet. He describes 

 it as being "blue," and as having an "early bell"; and again he 

 mentions it as the "mild blue spreckl'd crawflow'r." Probably Tan- 

 nahill had the Scilla nutans in view. — Common in pastures, on moors, 

 on grassy and scarry banks, over the front of which it often hangs in 

 beautiful tufts. The variety named villosus, from the herbage being 

 hairy, has been found in B. Langton woods, and near Bunkle, by 

 the Rev. Thomas Brown ; and the variety tenuifolius (= L. decum- 

 bens, Eng. Bot.) occurs occasionally in barren pastures, on a clay 

 soil. 



145. L.MAJOR. BabingtonPrim. Fl. Sarn.27. Banks of ditches, 

 boggy pastures, and in deans, common. July- Aug. 



146. Astragalus GLYCYPHVLLOS. D. " In great abundance on 

 the brow of a hill, called Cockle-hill, at Learmouth, near Cornhill. 

 About the old ramparts at Wark-castle, on the banks of the Tweed, 

 by the road to Carham. In the hilly pastures at Mony-laws, under 

 Flodden-hill." Wallis. — B. In the ravine above the village of Boss 

 in the parish of Mordington : Sea-banks between Siccar-point and the 

 Pease-dean. Banks of the Whiteadder, a little beyond Claribad 

 Mill, plentiful. Dr. R. Dunlop. By the quarry at Whitehall, G. 

 Henderson. Abundant on Tweed braes, a few yards east of Lennel 

 Church-yard, Jonathan Melrose. On the sea banks at the Ewelairs, 

 between the foot of the Pease-bum and the Cove-shore, J. Hardy. — 

 N. Banks of "Wooler-water above Coldgate Mill. Sea banks near 

 Bambrough, Dr. F. Douglas.— R. In the dean of Newtown St. 

 Boswells. — July-Aug. 



147. A. HYPOGLOTTis. Abundant ou green-swarded Sandy parts 

 of the coast of Berwickshire, as at Coldingham bay, Lamberton Shiels, 

 St. Abbs, and Redheugh. — D. On Spittal links ; on the links beyond 

 Scremerston ; and on Holy-Island. June. 



148. ViciA lathyroides. Dry gravelly and sandy places, rare. 

 D. Heugh, Holy-Island, Thompson.— N. Chapel-hill, Belford ; and 

 other basaltic heights between it and Bambrough, Thompson. — B. 

 On the rocky banks of Ale water. Sea banks near Emesheugh camp, 

 A. A. Carr. Foot of Dunglas dean, J. Hardy. May. 



149. V. SATIVA. t!Ci)C Care. — The indigenous plant is frequent 

 in old moorish pasture ground, and it loves the company of the Whin. 

 The narrow-leaved variety (V. angustifoha, Sm.) has been found 

 amongst whins at Belford in Roxburghshire by Dr. F. Douglas— 



