PEDICULARIS. — DIGITALIS. 157 



413. P. SYLVATiCA. Heaths, common. A white-flowered variety 

 has repeatedly occurred to us. July. — From this and the preceding, 

 the mountain hees extract a large share of their honey. 



414. ScROPHXJLARiA NODOSA. Woods, deaus, and hedges, fre- 

 quent. It is fond of briery brakes, and often hides midst brushwood 

 on the margent of a burn. June, July. — The unattractive flowers 

 are so remarkably haunted by wasps as to attract common observa- 

 tion, J. Hardy. " Flores vesparum. delicise." Linnseus. The honey- 

 bee also prefers it. 



415. S. Ehrharti. Stevens in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. i. 57. 

 Dr. Bell Salter in Phytologist, 1852, p. 740.— Rare. "Berwick," 

 Dr. P. W. Maclagan. I do not remember the exact locality. I have 

 gathered the plant in the dean between Linthaughlee and Houndlee 

 on the Jed. Aug., Sept. 



416. S. AauATiCA. Wet places. B. Side of the Whiteadder in 

 Tibby Fowler's glen, — an interesting locality from being the pre- 

 sumed scene of the old ballad, beginning 



" Tibby Fowler o' the glen ! 

 A' the lads are wooing at her." 



In the bed of the Eden at Nenthorn ; and in the grounds of Newton 

 Don. July, Aug. 



417. Digitalis purpurea. Withering's Memoirs, ii. 110. — 

 Jfopgloit or rather dFol&ii?gIobe, viz. the gloves of the " Good 

 People": TOttcJ)eJi' CJjtmlJltS : iBtatr-'men'iS fielliS: ^cotci) JUfltrfurj): 

 WtSLiOi Pltrcury. — Common. Abundant in the north-east and west 

 of the county of Berwick in the greywack^ district ; less common, 

 and even rare, in the sandstone districts. Abundant on many parts 

 of the Cheviot hills, where a specimen with white flowers may be 

 occasionally picked. — B. With white flowers on Ewieside, in the 

 Pease dean, and on Penmanshiel moor, J. Hardy. " Banks of the 

 Whiteadder at Tod-heugh quarry ; and on the high bank, with white 

 flowers, just above the miller's cottages at Hutton-mill. This plant 

 is very rare in the district in which these stations occur," G. Hen- 

 derson. Often very ornamental in deans, and on rocky ledges that 

 overhang the deep pools of our brattling burns : — 



" I 've lingered oft by rocky dells. 



Where streamlets wind with murmuring din. 

 And marked the Fox-glove's purple bells 

 Hang nodding o'er the dimpled lin." 



This plant is one of the powerful ingredients used as "bath" for 

 sheep, but some shepherds object to its use, for they say that it 

 blackens the wool very much. The leaves afford a medicine of great 

 energy and value ; and before this was known to physicians, the Fox- 

 glove or Fox-tree was frequently administered by the bold country 

 quack, not always with impunity. See Dalyell's Darker Supersti- 

 tions, p. 113. — ^About Greenlaw, the plant, from its stateliness, bears 

 the elegant name of tf)c Etng'iS eltoanti ; — 



" Straight as the Foxglove, ere her bells disclose." 



