EXPLOEATOEY NOTICES FOE SEPTEMBER 



THE gleanings of Flora's fair domain is all that the 

 botanical explorer can reasonably expect in this month 

 of shortened days, bright and exhilirating as are its 

 mornings, and its evenings often glorious with the 

 harvest moon, or lighted up with the grey, green, or 

 ruby-colured columns of the mystical Aurora Borealis. 



The fructification of the Eoses, and many other 

 shrubs, may now, however, be obtained, and should 

 be carefully examined, as, in botanical definition, the 

 character of the genus being taken from, the fruit, and 

 as it is often discriminative also with respect to the 

 species, the observer who desires to verify every fact 

 in nature for himself, should take the opportunity 

 only presented at this time, of gathering ripe fruits 

 and berries. Indeed, several shrubs, as the Euonymus 

 Europceus, and the RJiamnus frangula, are far more 

 conspicuous and beautiful in fruit than in flower, and 

 are more easily detected in the autumnal season than 

 at any other time. The former, loaded with capsules 

 of the brightest pink, when lighted up by a passing 

 sunbeam, is an object of great beauty. On the borders 

 of woods, and in shrubberies, the profusion of berries 

 now exhibited, with their varying tints, from the deep 

 black of the Dogwood (Cornns sanguinea), the light 

 orange of the Guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), and 

 the still deeper orange of the clusters of the Mountain 

 Ash, to the innumerable blood-red haws that crown 



