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224. Sedum telephium. Orpyne : Orpin : (©rpitsi. Very 

 rare. B. On the borders of a field one mile N. of Eyemouth, spa- 

 ringly. Rev. A. Baird. Near Coldingham on road-sides. — R. In 

 the vale of the Bowmont, Rev. A. Baird. — Cultivated in rustic gar- 

 dens, for Orpy-leaves are a popular vulnerary. For some curious 

 customs associated with the plant see Brand's Pop. Antiquities, i 

 p. 329. 



225. S. viLLOSUM. B. Grows in wet and boggy ground, scat- 

 tered over the entire range of the Lammermoors, yet so dispersed as 

 to make the botanist count it among those flowers he prizes for rarity 

 as well as for beauty. — N. It is common enough amongst the Cheviots; 

 and it grows on the basaltic heights between Belford and Bambrough. 

 July. 



226. S. ANGLicuM. Holy-Island, on the Heugh and about the 

 Castle. July. 



227. S. ACRE. Don Card. Diet. iii. 119. ^tont'CVO^. On 

 dikes oapt with earth, and on rocks in deans, common. June. Often 

 removed to the garden to ornament walls and rock-work ; and cot- 

 tagers plant it on their window-sills, and on the roof of the porch, 

 where it grows untended, pleasant and evergreen in the leaf, and 

 cheerful when in flower. In winter the herbage is purplish-brown. 

 On chewing a bit of it, no particular taste is at first perceptible ; but, 

 in a few minutes, an acrid and peculiarly disagreeable sensation in 

 the throat follows, and which lasts a considerable time. This acridity 

 is much weakened, and often entirely lost, when the Stonecrop is in 

 flower. 



\2. Sempervimim tectorum. ^otUfiiLetfe: Jfoolor^uet^. Planted 

 on the roofs of cottages, and especially on that of the smithy, where 



16. Sedum reflexum. — Has been observed in one or two places on earth- 

 capt dikes, but in our district too obviously the mere outcast of the 

 garden. July. 



17. S. album. "Nearthe village of Ilderton, on an old wall, Sedumalbum 

 was found in great profusion and beauty. Whether truly indigenous, it is 

 difficult to say, but I do not think we are justified in at once asserting, as 

 is often done, that the plant must have been planted, as it is so near a 

 village." R. Embleton in Trans. Berw. N. Club, ii. p. 356. — I know Ilder- 

 ton and its garden well ; and sixty years ago this was indeed a garden 

 remarkable in many respects, and not least so for the variety and number 

 of good old flowers grown in it, — old famihar flowers now "become unfa- 

 miliar to this generation : — Silver and Golden Rods, Bachelor's-Buttons, 

 yellow and white, Blue-Bottles, Peonies of monstrous size and beauty. 

 Southernwood, the blue Iris, Narcissuses, such as I have never since seen, 

 Dafibdils, Solomon's-Seal, Star-of-Bethlehem, Orpin, Saxifrages, and every 

 herb that village doctress could require in her need. " Of this kind are 

 elder flowers, which are therefore proper for the stone ; dwarf-pine, which 

 is good for the jaundice ; piony, which is proper for stoppages in the head ; 

 fumitory, which is good for the spleen, and many others." — Lord Bacon. 

 All these were collected together, and cultivated in patterns, by an old 

 gentleman who had emigrated from France ; and from such a garden Sedum 

 album might have escaped without difficulty. 



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