102 SCABIOSA.— TUSSILAGO. 



especially where the soil is damp and peaty, very common. Autumn. 

 A variety with pinnatifid stem-leaves is occasionally found in Berwick- 

 shire. W. Baird. Mr. Hardy has described another variety /3. 

 laxiflora. Bot. Gazette, i. 133 : Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2.iii. 

 424. "In the usual state of this plant, the flowers are densely capi- 

 tate, and the lobes of the corolla are nearly subequal, somewhat ex- 

 ceeded in length by the stigma, while the stamens project about twice 

 their length. 1 have, however, gathered a variety in Penmanshiel 

 wood, with the general involucre small, the heads of flowers loose, and 

 few-flowered, the external lobe of the corolla much lengthened, the 

 stigma little longer than the throat of the flower, scarcely exceeded 

 by the stamens, all of which are shorter than the floral divisions. The 

 plant is of the full size of the ordinary specimens beside which it 

 grows."^ — Of this Scabious Mr. Hardy further writes me : " On the 

 sea banks between Didaw and Redheugh (the rock being greywacke), 

 this plant is remarkably luxuriant, the foliage of a light-green hue, 

 and almost always glabrous; while the claw of the florets is more de- 

 veloped than in the usual state of the plant. On red sandstone rocks, 

 in a similar situation, the plant is ordinarily luxuriant, the light-green 

 colour of the leaves is retained, but the pubescence is resumed." 



288. S. COLUMBARIA. Dry pastures and banks, frequent in our 

 district. B. Castle-hills. Sides of the ravine above Newfarm. Banks 

 of Tibby Fowler's glen. Crags below Nenthorn on the Eden. — D. 

 Banks of the Tweed below West-Ord. — N. Spindlestone Hills. — R. 

 Stitchell lynn. Rev. Thos. Brown. June-Aug. — A pretty species. 



COMPOSITE. 



289. EuPATORixjM cANNABiNUM. Jfilatra or jHlajjta. Boggy 

 places and plashes by burns. Gregarious. B. Dodd's-well, and on 

 similar places of our sea banks between this and Marshall-Meadows. 

 In many of our wet deans near the sea. D. Horncliffe dean. August. 



290. TussiLAGO PETASiTEs — Petasites vulgaris. Ci^e 33utterbur, 

 viz. the large Bur, so named from the size of the leaf, which is the 

 largest of any British plant. Turner says that, in his time, it was 

 called "an CElBtn "; and the Rev. Mr. Hodgson says that " at Whel- 

 pington, it is called an ClIi'Dotfetn." Memoir, p. 63. A skilled per- 

 son from the neighbourhood of Jedburgh named it for me the CEIWrn^ 

 j!@OCfetn; and added that a decoction of the roots was much in use for 

 the cure of scorbutic or leprous complaints. The plant grows by river 

 sides, in extensive patches, and in deans, and wet corners of meadows 

 where the soil is deep and sandy. The jungles it forms, when in full 



24. Aster salicifolius. D. I have fovmd this American growing by the 

 Tweed side opposite Fishwick-mains ; and I have been told that it has al- 

 most naturalized itself in Hirsel woods on the Leet. 



25. Erigeron acris. " Links at Holy Island in a direction north from the 

 Castle, plentiful," Thompson. Often sought for in vain ; but, in 1835, 

 Dr. F. Douglas found a single specimen near the Coves. 



