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the name of jRapperKan'UwjS, and are eaten by them, T. Brown. Can 

 this singular name have any connexion with that of " Kappatialmas," 

 given by the Laplanders to the berries of the Vaccinium vitis-idsea * ? 

 for our people have probably confounded the fruit of the two plants, 

 that of the Arbutus not being eatable. 



365. Pyrola rotundifolia. Rough bogs, rare. D. In the 

 dean below AUerton mill ; and in Haiden dean. N. Learmouth bog, 

 B. C. Embleton. Newham loch, P. J. Selby. Mr. Carr mentions 

 the plant as a native of Houndwood, and of the banks of the Ale in 

 Coldingham parish, but these habitats need confirmation. Mr. Carr's 

 herbarium contains no specimen of the genus. July- Aug. 



366. P. MEDTA. Deans and moors. B. I have gathered it on 

 the moor near the entrance to Dulaw dean ; and Mr. Hardy in Red 

 Clues Cleugh, Blackburn-rigg dean, Birchybank, and Kitchen Cleugh. 

 In a hanging-wood opposite Grant' s-house. Dr. W. Baird. Dirring- 

 ton Law, Rev. Thos. Brown. On Shawnabank or Whare Burn above 

 the ale-house at Abbey St. Bathans : and on Greenlaw moor. D. 

 In Ancroft, Haiden, and Longridge deans, &c. July. 



367. P. MINOR. Woods. B. In a wood at Orange-lane ; and in 

 a plantation to the north of Loch Lithtillum, Dr. R. D. Thomson. 

 Blackadder plantations ; plantations at Greenburn ; in woods at Man- 

 derston-house. Banks of the Dye above Longformacus. In a wood 

 between the farms of Simprin and Swinton-hill ; and in a wood on 

 the farm of Milne-Graden, J. Hardy. In almost every fir plantation 

 in the west of Berwickshire, and in Roxburghshire, Dr. F. Douglas. 

 — Mr. Hardy remarks that P. media flowers in greatest beauty when 

 under long heather ; and I have obsei-ved of P. minor, that, when 

 grown in a pot, the leaf-stalks twist and contort themselves so as to 

 reverse the natural position of the leaf, and make the upper surface 

 look to the ground, in a manner which appears to me remarkable. 



The circumstances that determine the appearance of this plant in 

 our fir plantations are not well ascertained. It springs up in green 

 patches after the baneful shade of the trees has extirpated the abori- 

 ginal possessors of the soil, such as the Heaths and smaller Carices. 

 In this respect it resembles exactly the Linneea borealis. Whence 

 have their seeds come ? Have they lain buried and dormant in the 

 soil since the ante-roman period, when all this part of the country 

 was covered vrith a forest ? I think it not improbable. They were 

 the fair flowers that were wede away with the destruction and aboU- 

 tion of the shelter and shade that fostered their growth ; and that 

 shade being restored, they again revive and occupy their ancient 

 haunts f. They are peculiarly wild plants, and dislike civilization ; 



* As to this etymology, let it be remembered that the Borderers, al- 

 though they cannot sound the letter r properly, are yet fond of introducing 

 it where it should not be heard. For example, Doddington is always pro- 

 nounced Dorrington. 



t I find that Dr. Mackay has made some similar remarks in the Intro- 

 duction to his Flora Hibernica, p. vi. And to my friend- Mr. Archibald 

 Hepburn, Anemone nemorosa, when growing unsheltered on our bare 



