108 PYRETHRUM. GNAPHALIUM. 



for the flock of geese that were there ou our arrival are wending their 

 homeward way up the bank, gurghng and hissing at being frayed 

 away by the noise and wild play of the unruled children. And who 

 would check the exuberant wantonness of them ! 



" And I will have my careless season, 

 Spite of melancholy reason ; 

 Will walk through life in such a way. 

 That, when time brings on decay. 

 Now and then I may possess 

 Horn's of such perfect gladsomeness." — Wordsworth. 



304. Pyrethrum inodorum = Matricaria inodora. ^ox&t' 

 ©oiuan. — A weed over our whole district. Summer. — A variety 

 (/3. obesior), hitherto erroneously considered to be the P. maritimum, 

 is found on the coast of Berwickshire at Burnmouth almost touching 

 the line of the tide; at St. Abb's-head; and between Dulaw and Red- 

 heugh. The plant is depressed and spreading with fleshy leaves, which 

 turn blackish in drying. The scales of the involucre are darker than 

 those of the inland plant, but still they are pale when compared 

 with the brown uneven or undulated margin. This, however, is 

 entire. See Fries Sum. Veg. Scand. i. 186. 



305. Artemisia absinthium. OTormiuooi*. — Waste grounds 

 about villages ; and on sites where villages have been. Aug. 



306. A. VULGARIS. JlMugtuort. — Waste places and under hedges. 

 It often grows intermingled with the preceding. Aug. 



307. A. MARiTiMA. SitasOTtormtoooK. — D. In an early publi- 

 cation Turner says, — " I have sene Sea Wormwoode in Northumber- 

 land by holye Islande ;" and in a later one, "In oure tyme it is 

 plenteouslye founde in England about Lynne and holly Ilond." It 

 is now only to be found there sparingly on St. Cuthbert's isle ; but 

 it grows abundantly in salt marshy spots between Goswick and Beal. 

 B. In the clefts of a greywacke rock near St. Helen's chapel, sparingly. 

 J. Hardy. 



308. Tanacetum vulgare. Light. Fl. Scot. 465. — Cansip. — 

 Haughs of rivers and burns, hedge-banks, and waste grounds. "We 

 observ'd plenty of it about Wark and Ford-Castle, not far from Kelso, 

 on the borders of Scotland," Lightfoot. — The leaves are placed in 

 beds to drive fleas from them. Mugwort is used for the same purpose. 

 Tansy-cakes, now unknown, were formerly played for during the 

 Easter holidays. Strutt. Sport, and Past. p. 94. 



309. Gnaphalium GERMANicuM = Filago germanica. See Phy- 

 tologist, 1848, p. 314. — d^afctowtf. — Dry fields and pastures, com- 

 mon. As Ray has remarked, this weed loves to grow on broommie 

 knowes. July, Aug. 



310. G. MiNiMUM=F. minima. Sandy heaths, barren ploughed 

 grounds, and earth-capped dikes, common. July, Aug. 



