148 MYOSOTIS. ANCHUSA. 



Redheugh, J. Hardy. On the shore at the mouth of the Pease-bum, 

 Rev. J. Baird; whence it appears to have " now disappeared, although 

 it still grows abundantly two miles east from the Pease-dean." 

 J. Hardy m Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2, iii. p. 152.—" It is one 

 of the most beautiful indigenous plants of Great Britain. Its undu- 

 lated glaucous leaves, contrasted with red and blue flowers, are 

 extremely ornamental to the barren shores where it grows, and readily 

 discover the plant to any curious observer." Lightfoot. — The taste 

 of the leaves is singularly like to that of oysters. 



381. Myosotis PALtrsTRis. dTorgct^tnt^not. — Frequent on the 

 rushy margins of ponds and sluggish waters. 



" The ^arstt-mt'txat on the water's edge 

 Reveals her lovely hue. 

 Where the broken bank, between the sedge, 

 Is embroider'd with her blue." — Noel. 



It grows freely, and with unhurt beauty, in the garden, and has re- 

 ceived less attention from the amateur florist than it deserves. 

 Captain Carpenter picked a white variety near Cornhill. Summer. 



382. M. REPENs. Berw. Fl. ii. 274 = M. secunda, Murray, 

 North. Fl. 115. — Boggy places on moors, frequent. Mr. Don of 

 Forfar had distinguished this as a species so early as 1810. Summer. 



383. M. c^spiTOSA. Watery places and ditches by road-sides, on 

 a light soil, not uncommon. July. 



384. M. svLVATiCA. In woods. B. Langton woods. Rev. Thos. 

 Brown. Banks of the Tweed above Dryburgh. — D. Wooded banks 

 of the Till below Etal. May, June. 



385. M. ARVENSis. Cultivated fields and in woods, very common. 

 The woodland form is frequently mistaken for the preceding species. 

 Summer. 



388. M. VERSICOLOR. Heaths, earth-capt dikes, and sometimes 

 in moist meadows. In light fields, when in their second year of 

 grass, it is frequently an over-abundant weed. April-June. 



387. M. COLLINA. Trans. Berw. Nat. Club, ii. 346. Rare. 

 B. On the south side of the foot of Dunglass burn : abundant near 

 the quarry at Old Cambus, J. Hardy. Sea banks north of Bum- 

 mouth. May. 



22. Anchusa sempervirens. Lightf. Fl. Scot. 133. — In its habitats 

 this plant is quite naturalized, and in most is evidently the outcast of 



31 . Symphytum asperrimum. Prickly Comfrey. — An experiment made 

 to cultivate this plant for fodder, in the centre of Berwickshire, was not 

 successful. It may be found occasionally in gardens and shrubberies. 



32. Borago officinalis. Borage. — A veryrare and unsettled straggler in our 

 district. It was probably cultivated, by the monks and herbalists, in our 

 feudal times, as a cordial and medicinal herb ; and the plant that now and 

 then appears, in some rubbishy place, may be from a seed dropt in the soil 

 then, and now fetched bv accident within the influences of its life. 



