VALERIANA. — SCABIOSA. 101 



nalis; but in the same patch that furnished them were stems that had 

 13, 11, and 9 leaflets to a leaf. To which variety was I to refer the 

 latter ? The variety with 1 7 leaflets grows as a weed in the garden 

 at Newwaterhaugh ; and amidst the stone -work and rubbish that fronts 

 the mouth of the Whiteadder. July. 



283. V. DioiCA. Boggy places, frequent. June. 



284. Fedia olttoria = Valerianella olitoria. Dry banks, not 

 common. B. Castle-hills ; and on the hedge bank between New- 

 waterhaugh and the Whiteadder. Ravine above Ross ; and on the 

 banks of the Eye near Netherbyres in the east ; and in the west at 

 Ordwheel on the Whiteadder. — D. Abundantly below the Union 

 Bridge. — R. Banks of the Tweed below Rosebank toll, Dr. F. Dou- 

 glas ; and on the Eden near Stitchell lynn. May. 



285. F. DENTATA = V. dentata. In corn-fields rare with us, but I 

 found it, some years ago, plentiful enough in the neighbourhood of 

 Warren-ford, N. June, July. 



15. Bipsacus fullonum. Don Gard. Diet. iii. 682. CtaSfl. Occa- 

 sionally seen in waste grounds near gardens, whence it was an outcast. 

 It may be considered as naturalized about the old bowling-green at 

 B. Newwaterhaugh, and iu hedges near the lodge of Netherbyres 

 house. I once saw a small field cultivated with it near Melrose. 

 Aug., Sept. 



286. ScABiosA ARVENSis := Kuautia arvensis. Don Gard. Diet, 

 iii. 687. CurfjsJBo'OlJWIi. Corn-fields, road-sides, open deans, and 

 pastures, common. July. — The provincial name is derived from the 

 resemblance of the head of flowers to the curled pate of a boy, and is 

 very ancient. See Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, i. p. clx. 



" Where yon Blue-bells and Curls^ifoHlrtE^ bloom 

 On the fair knowe, amid the waving broom. 

 There have I sported with the gleesome band, 

 And heard their glad shouts echoing o'er the land." 



From "Scenes of Boyhood," by George Henderson, Surgeon, 

 Chirnside.— The flower affords a horologe of a primitive sort. The 

 head is twisted round a few times, and then left to recover its position. 

 The number of circumvolutions is the true index to the time of day ! 

 J. Hardy. 



287. S. succisA. JBtbiX'iJsbit. In deans and moor pastures. 



23. Dipsacus sylvestris. My friend Dr. James Thompson gathered a 

 specimen or two on a piece of waste ground near D. Shoreswood-Red- 

 houses; but the locality was one Uable to annual change, and variously 

 appropriated. The late Rev. A. Baird found it in a smaU plantation be- 

 tween Comhill and New-Leaxmouth, whence I have a specimen picked by 

 Mr. R. Embleton ; but, from the recentness of the plantation, the indi- 

 eenousness of the weed may be doubted. There is no doubt that it was 

 never cultivated, but it may be merely a degenerate descendant of D. ful- 

 lonum. 



