194 ORCHIS. — GALANTHUS. 



of Blackburn-rigg wood, tolerably abundant but scattered : on the 

 south side only one specimen was detected. J. Hardy. Amongst 

 some natural wood opposite the village of Longformacus. — N. Dod- 

 dington moor. July. — "The solitary state of this plant, mentioned 

 in Dr. Johnston's Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed, ii. p. 288, may, 

 perhaps, be owing to its having attained, in the stations in which it 

 occurs, the limits of its distribution. In Durham, where it abounds, 

 it is as gregarious as its congeners. The redness of the spike appears 

 to be a characteristic feature in upland plants ; the panicle of corn 

 in hilly districts having generally a reddish tinge, and Mr. Shuttles- 

 worth, remarking on this plant growing in the alpine pastures of 

 Switzerland, observes, — ' in alpibus spica ssepe rubescit.' Mag. 

 Zool. and Bot. ii. p. 18." J. Hardy. 



11.0. BiFOLiA = H. bifolia. Smith's PI. of Kent, 48.— In the 

 green oases of most of our moors, and in the meadow plats by the side 

 of our burns, in heathy soil, this pale and sweet-scented Orchis is 

 often met with, after the hay has been cut and piked. D. Bogs below 

 Shoreswood : Ancroft moor : Doddington moor, &c. 



12. Habenaria chlorantha. Bromfield in Phytologist, iii. 

 904 and 992. — B. Banks of Coldingham loch : Houndwood on the 

 verge of Coldingham moor. July. 



13. Iris psetjdacortjs. OTatcr dPlng : ^tlloto ^ttfge : Cljt 

 ^eggc. Sides of ponds, burns, and marshes, frequent, forming beds. 

 The plant is used by coopers. The dried leaves are put between the 

 steps of barrels to prevent leakage. Under. the name of §>lDort(si 

 they furnish youthful warriors with a weapon. On the banks of the 

 Whiteadder and Blackadder bundles of Stggsi tied together used to 

 be employed by children learning to swim. Some of our common 

 people identify our plant with the Jflagsi by the river's brink, in 

 which the ark of bull-rushes containing the infant Moses was 

 secreted. J. Hardy. 



2. Narcissus pseudo-narcissus. Cl^e l^affoUtl. Naturalized in 

 the plantations and deans near the residences of our gentry. — " In a 

 retired spot, on the opposite side of the river, about a mile from 

 Kelso, is the small hamlet of Maison-Dieu, where, from an early 

 period, there existed a hospital, or asylum, for pilgrims, and for the 

 diseased and poor. On the spot which was once its garden, Daffo- 

 dils and Primroses still continue to spring up annually." Morton's 

 Teviotdale, p. 320. 



3. Galanthus nivalis. Ci)f ^itoiu'Drop. In planta^tions about the 

 residences of our gentry, seldomer, and in less profusion, than the 

 florist might deem desirable. Very abundant on the banks of the 

 Leader at Diygrange, F. Douglas. Perhaps wild in Dunglass dean. 

 Professor Arnott will not allow the Snowdrop to be native. Burns 

 would seem to have had no doubt that it was : 



" The Snawdrap and Primrose our woodlands adom, 

 And Violets bathe in the weet o' the morn." 



