84 RIBES. SAXIFRAGA. 



it forms a round tuff ornamented, in July, with thick leafy stalks, 

 branched at the top, " alongst the which branches groweth a great 

 many of browne or reddish floures." — The leaves furnish a popular 

 remedy for cuts and corns. The juice expressed from them, mixed 

 with cream or milk, is a very soothing application in severe itching. 



228. RiBEs GROssTJLARiA. Don Gard. Diet. iii. 179. #00£ics 

 htxxyj : &VO\tti. Found frequently in deans, woods, and hedges. 

 April. 



229. R. NIGRUM. 33larfehtn:p. In deans on the former sites of 

 mills ; but sometimes apparently wild, as in a dean leading from the 

 Till about two miles below Etal. May. 



230. R. RxiBRTJM. Don Gard. Diet. iii. 187. Beif CuxTant. 

 With the preceding. — In the heart of the Lammermuirs the Black 

 Currant thrives and ripens its berries perfectly. The Gooseberry 

 feels the climate a little ungenial ; and the Red Currant can scarcely 

 be made to produce desirable fruit. Ray considers the Red and 

 Black Currants to be indigenous to England, and more particularly 

 in some of its northern counties. Syn. p. 298. edit. 1696. In the 

 Flora of Berwick, ii. p. 323, I have advocated the claim of the Goose- 

 berry to be considered a native ; and Dr. Bromfield has supported 

 this claim, with more elaborate care and learning, in the Phytologist 

 for 1848, p. 377. With Dr. Bromfield's view I in the main cordially 

 concur. Mr. H. C. Watson says : — " The different kinds of Goose- 

 berries and Currants cultivated in our gardens are probably derived 

 from species indigenous to Britain, and are veiy apt to spring up in 

 our woods and hedges from translated seeds." Geog. Dist. Brit. 

 Plants, p. 41. Just so. Taken from the pristine woods, a portion 

 of the race was reclaimed and made fructuous, while agriculture 

 rooted out the remainder as useless cumbrances of the ground ; but 

 as the present ambiguous wildlings descend from what were originally 

 natives, we have admitted them amongst our indigenous plants. 



231. Saxifraga stellaris. N. By the sides of burns and 

 runlets, and in green bogs, on and about Cheviot, frequent ; and a 

 fine flower to reward the young botanist as he wanders amongst these 

 hills. June- July. 



232. S. HiRCULUs. Hooker Brit. Fl. edit. 4, 174. Trans. Berw. 

 N. Club, i. 9. — B. In a wet moorish spot near Langton wood, plen- 

 tiful, Rev. Thomas Brown, who had the good fortune to add this 

 beautiful species to the Flora of Scotland. July, 



233. S. HYPNOiDES. N. On Cheviot in Dunsdale and Ilenhole 

 Hopes, very abundant, Miss Hunter and Miss E. Bell. July-Aug. 

 Is used to form borders in flower plots. 



234. S. GRANTJLATA. Gravelly bauks in dcaus, and by rivcrs and 

 burns, not uncommon ; and it ascends to Dunsdale on Cheviot. 

 June, July. 



13. S.umbrosa. ^oiif-'So^prtttB : 3I.oiii(on=33v{Dc. B. In the dean 



