164 GLECHOMA. — PINGUICULA. 



447. Glechoma HEDERACEA=Nepeta glechoma. ©rountljJbg : 

 (©runU?30a6g. In deans, and under hedges and old walls, especially 

 in the neighbourhood of villages and onsteads. Begins to flower 

 about the middle of April, and has considerable claims to elegance 

 and beauty. Still gathered by herbalists, but it has lost many of the 

 multitudinous virtues that it once possessed. See Southey's Com. 

 Place Book, ii. p. 665. 



448. Marrubium vulgare. IffiC^ite ?^orcf)OunlJ. " Grows 

 abundantly on the sea-banks by the road near Bambrough Castle," 

 WaUis. 



449. Calamintha acinos — Thymus acinos. Smith = Acinos 

 vulgaris. Hooker. — In poor and light soils, rare. D. In fields at 

 Haiden dean; and in AUerton dean near the cross railroad, abundant. 

 — B. In a grass field between Ecklaw and Edmonston, abundantly, 

 J. Hardy. 



450. Clinopodium vulgare = Calamintha clinopodium. Dry 

 bushy places, rare. B. Banks of the river opposite Norham. Birg- 

 ham haugh. Dr. E. D. Thomson. — R. Banks of Tweed above Kelso, 

 abundant ; and below Broad Meadows. In the dean at Newtown. 

 — N. Road-side within a mile of Belford. Warn dean. Autumn. 



451. Prunella vulgaris. Meadows, pastures, and road-sides, 

 common. June. In the Merse called f^tarto^tijt^lSeavti^ and 

 33rinct'£ijdrtati)tr^. I have gathered it with rose-coloured and white 

 flowers in the bed of the Eye above Grant' s-house ; and the white- 

 flowered variety prevails on the poor fields of Stony-muir-rig, in the 

 Liberties of Berwick. " A dwarf variety with white flowers, and the 

 spikes of a green colour, occurs in barren marshy spots, in a field 

 near Blackburn-rigg wood. Varieties with pink" flowers are not rare." 

 J. Hardy. 



452. Scutellaria galericulata. Boggy places. B. Side of 

 the Pease burn in a haugh at the foot of Penmanshiel wood, J. Hardy. 

 — D. Allerton-mill dean, plentiful. Learmouth bogs, R. Embleton. 

 — R. Yetholm and Linton lochs. 



453. PiNGuicuLA VULGARIS = P. ovata, Stokes Bot. Comment, 

 i. 121. — JSuttcrluort. — Marshy places, particularly on moors, com- 

 mon. The Mot*graS£i of shepherds, who reckon it prejudicial to 

 cattle, J. Hardy. " Ovibus noxia fertur ab Anglis aliisque," Lin- 

 naeus. The properties of the plant are worth inquiry. See Fl. 

 Lapp. p. 10. — It is a beautiful flower, and remarkable for its irri- 

 tability. On being pulled, the leaves quickly curl backwards, so as 

 almost to form a ball round the root by their revolution ; and the 

 flower-stalk bends itself backwards, and forms a more or less perfect 

 segment of a circle. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, i. p. 10. 



38. Verbena officinalis. Vervain. — Peun. Br. Zool. iii.43. B. Gathered 

 in a corn-field near Coekburnspath by the Rev. A. Baird, and undoubtedly 

 introduced with seed corn. 



