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VIOLA LACTEA. 



A very excellent botanist and one of our most " zealous" pupils, 

 John Nicholson, Esq., of Lincoln, has found a very remarkable state 

 of Viola lactea, Linn., 'E. Bot.' t. 445, in the neighbourhood of that 

 city (at Boultham Lane, on both sides of the road), in habit so un- 

 like the figure just quoted that it might at first sight be taken for a 

 distinct species. Except at the base the stems are quite erect, and 

 many of the specimens from a foot to eighteen inches tall, with the 

 leaves and peduncles very remote from each other, and many of the 

 flowers apetalous. Reichenbach's V. lactea, * Iconogr. Bot.' t. 99» 

 however, admirably represents this variety, only that the latter is much 

 smaller, not above a span high. Its flowers are very pale blue, al- 

 most milk-coloured, otherwise it is hardly to be distinguished from 

 some states of Viola montana, L. — Sir W. J. Hooker. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR NOVEMBER 1838. 



Chiswick. — Nov.]. Overcast: rain : clear at night. 2,3. Fine. 4. Rain. 

 5. Fine. 6. Very fine. 7. Rain ; fine : windy at night. 8. Clear and fine : 

 rain. 9. Heavy rain. 10. Clear and fine. 11. Dense fog. 12. Clear and 

 cold. 13. Frosty: fine. 14. Frosty and foggy. 15, 16. Foggy. 17. Foggy: 

 fine. 18, 19. Rain. 20. Cold haze. 21—23. Foggy. 24. Bleak and cold. 

 25, 26. Fiosty. 27. Overcast. 28. Heavy rain : hurricane at night. 29. 

 Boisterous with heavy rain : much thunder and lightning at night. 30. Rain, 

 fine. 



Boston. — Nov. I. Fine: rain early a.m. 2, 3. Fine: rain p.m. 4. Cloudy: 

 rain p.m. 5. Cloudy. 6. Fine. 7. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 8. Fine. 9, 10. 

 Cloudy. 11. Foggy. 12, 13. Fine. 14. Foggy. 15. Cloudy. 16, 17. Foggy. 

 18. Cloudy: rain a.m. and p.m. 19. Stormy. 20,21. Cloudy. 22. Cloudy: 

 rain early a.m. 23,24. Cloudy. 25,26. Fine. 27. Stormy. 28. Cloudy: 

 stormy with rain p.m. 29. Stormy : rain early a.m. 30. Stormy. 



Applegarth Manse, Dumfriesshire. — Nov. 1. Heavy showers : hail. 2. Fair 

 but cloudy. 3. Frequent showers. 4. Fair and cloudy- 5. Moist: slight 

 showers. 6. Fair: one slight shower. 7. Rain all day : high flood. 8. Occa- 

 sional showers. 9. Fine day. 10. Fine day : rain p.m. 11. Fine day after 

 snow. 12. Hard frost : clear and serene. 13. Temperate. 14. Cloudy and 

 raw. 15. Thick fog. 16. Cleared up : dry. 17. Rain in the night : cold. 

 18. Cold drying day : snow on hills. 19. Cold and threatening a fall. 20. 

 Still cold, yet dry. 21. Still threatening a fall. 22—26. Cold and dry. 27. 

 Cold : snow three inches deep. 28. Wet in the night : ditto p.m. 29. Very 

 wet day and stormy. 30. Showery and stormy : flood. 



