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The leaves are often marked with the wayward course of a cater- 

 pillar which eats a channel between the two skins. Children bite 

 off the end of the long tube of the flower to obtain the honey inside, 

 which is not unmixed with bitterness. Bees take the same com- 

 pendious way of robbing the nectary of the Columbine. The berries, 

 though luscious and tempting, are deemed poisonous. Walking-sticks 

 fantastically carved with the serpentine rings of the ' ijinngiSicillc ' 

 are much admired by rustic beaux. J. Hardy. 



271. LiNN^A BOREALis. Lin. Fl. Lapp. 214. tab. 12. fig. 4. 

 B. In a fir wood on Lightfield farm near Mellerstane. June-July. 

 As a native of Berwickshire this interesting plant was discovered by 

 Mr. Dunn, gardener at Mellerstane ; and the discovery was commu- 

 nicated to the Club by Mr. Heslop. In the summer of 1842 the 

 Club sought for the plant without success (Trans. Berw. N. Club, ii. 

 p. 6) ; but in 1843 they had the pleasure of seeing this ever-green 

 and ever-fragrant memorial of their great master, growing wild, in 

 two or three considerable patches. Specimens were taken by Mr. 

 Selby, and planted in his dean at Twizell-house, where they have 

 thriven. 



272. Sherardia arvensis. Dry sandy fields, especially in new 

 pastures ; and waste places, common. Summer. 



273. AspERiiLA ODORATA. TOoolJvuff : §iinnt'Qvai&. In deans 

 abundantly. June.- — -The dried leaves are placed in drawers with 

 linens to impart to them a sweet smell. Children put a whorl between 

 the leaves of their books with a like purpose ; and many people like 

 to have one neatly dried laid in the case of their watch. 



274. Galium cruciatum. "Gallon or Gallion is named in 

 English in the north countrye JHagJltnsi i)t(rt," Turner. Common 

 in thickets and meadows. May, June. 



275. G. PALUSTRE. Boggy places and ditches by hedge sides, 

 frequent. The variety /3. = G. Witheringii, is met with in bogs on 

 all our moors. July, Aug. 



276. G. ULiGiNOSUM. Watery and rush-grown bogs, not uncom- 

 mon. Aug. 



277. G. MOLLUGo. B. In hedge bottoms, scattered. Near the 

 farm-house of Cocklaw in the parish of Ayton. It appears to be not 

 uncommon in the How-of-the-Merse. I have seen it near Mountfair ; 

 Mr. Hardy finds it near Milne-Graden Mains ; and my friends Miss 

 Bell and Miss Hunter communicate it from near Anton' s-hill, and from 

 the grounds of the Hirsel. June. 



278. G. BOREALE. This fine species is also not imcommon in 

 the How-of-the-Merse, growing in rough rather moist places, and very 

 conspicuous from the number and pure whiteness of its flowers. B. 

 Road-side near Fish wick-w. -mains, sparingly. On the Scart crags 

 above Milne-Graden, and on other rocks by Tweed-side near the same 



21. Viburnum Lantana. "At Sir John Hall's in Dunglass-glen," Dr. 



Parsons. 



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