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Saxifraga palmata, 22d (1877, May 22 ; 1878, x\pril 30). 



M affinis, 22d (1878, iNIay 15). 



Geranium Robeitianum album, 22d (1877, May 23 ; 1878, April, end). 

 Apple (on wall), 22d (1877, May 19). 

 Phlox setacea, 23d (1877, May 23; 1878, April, end). 

 Stellaria holostea, 24th (1878, April, end). 

 Salix reticulata, 24th (1878, middle of May). 

 II herbacea, 24th (1878, middle of May). 

 Epilobium alpinum, 24th. 



Linaria alpina, 25th (1877, June 4 ; 1878, May 15). 

 Arenaria purpurascens, 25th (1877, June 6 ; 1878", May 15). 

 Cerastium arvense, 27th (1877, May 23 ; 1878, May 15). 

 Saxifraga atropurpurea, 27th (1877, May 29; 1878, May 15). 

 II pectinata, 28th (1877, May 26; 1878, May 15). 

 n hypnoides, 28th (1878, beginning of May). 

 Potentilla lupinoides, 28th. 

 Vinca herbacea, 29th (1878, May 15). 

 Wulfenia carinthiaca, 30th. 

 Geranium sanguineum, 30th (1877, June 6). 

 Saxifraga recta, 30 (1878, May 15). 



n rosularis, 30th (1878, May 15). 

 Alchemilla alpina, 31st (1877, May 30; 1878, beginning of May). 



It conjuncta, 31st (1878, beginning of May). 



Daphne laureola, 31st (1877, May 16 ; 1878, May 15). 

 Oxyria reniformis, 31st (1877, May 20 ; 1878, beginning of May). 

 Veronica chamaedrys, 31st (1877, May 23 ; 1878, May 15). 

 The first leaf of a copper beech appeared on May loth or nth (in 1878 on 

 April 30, and in 1877 on May 9) ; about the i8th or 20th it was half in full 

 leaf (May 21 in 1877) ; and about the 22d or 23d it flowered (May 22 in 

 1877). On the 3d Swallows and Fly-catchers appeared in the garden, and on 

 the 14th Swifts at Perth Bridge (being eleven days later than in 1878). 



F. Buchanan Whitf. 



VARIOUS NOTES. 



Messrs Friedlander & Sohn, the well-known scientific booksellers of Berlin, 

 have published, since the beginning of the year, a fortnightly list of the Current 

 Literature of all Nations on Natural History and the Exact Sciences. The 

 value of such a list, if complete and accurate — and such Messrs Friedlander's 

 seems to be — needs no comment. The title of it is Naturse Novitates. 



Miss Ormerod's Notes of Observations of Injurious Insects : Report 1878 



(West, Newman, & Co., London), contains a lot of useful matter on many 

 common and some rarer insects in all parts of the country. Information is 

 requested on various points relating to such matters as the spread of common- 

 crop insects {e.g.^ the Turnip Fly) from common crop- weeds, &c., &c. ; and 

 probably there are many farmers and others interested in the cultivation of 

 the land who would gladly assist in contributing information, in the hope that 



