Natural History in the Englis?i Comities, 



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Park : they seemed travelling, as I looked for some time, and did not see 

 them return as they usually do when in search of their food. [We oh- 

 served a flight of swallows the same day at Bayswater, as did Mr. Sweet at 

 Fulham.] 



The Nightingale I have not yet heard, this season, in the Park ; though 

 I heard it last year before the 20th of April. I am. Sir. &c. — R. G. 

 Sussex Place J Regent's Park, April 27, 1829. 



Art. III. Natural History in the English Counties* 



Indigenous Floras of London and Plymouth compared. — Sir, The fol- 

 lowing tables, illustrating the difference of climate between this neighbour- 

 hood and that of London, were furnished, at my request, by my friend, 

 Mr. Banks of Devonport, who unites to a profound acquaintance with our 

 indigenous botany the greatest accuracy of observation. Hence, the greatest 

 dependence may be placed upon the materials which he has furnished, and 

 which I place at your disposal, as a hint which will, I hope, be followed up, 

 in other places, by equally attentive observers. In this the means will be 

 furnished of comparing the climate of different parts of our island even 

 more accurately than by the most correct registers of meteorological ob- 

 servations. I am. Sir, &c. — William Hamilton. 1 5. Oxford Place, Ply- 

 mouth, March 1. 1829. 



A List of early-flowering Plants growing in the Vicinity of Plymouth, with their usual Period of 

 beginning to flower there, compared with the Periods assigned for their flowering in the 

 Vicinity of London in the last edition of the Hortus Kewensis : from the Observations of 

 Mr. Gborgb Banks, Lecturer on Botany, &c., Devonport. 



Names. 



Dkphne Laur^ola 

 Gal&nthus nivalis - 

 /Tell^borus viridis 

 Fragaria v^sca 

 Z/Smium purpfireum 

 Stellaria mfedia 

 Ribes Grossulkria 

 A'arcissus Pseudo-^arcissus 

 Tussilago ii'arfara 

 Draba v^rna 

 -Buxus sempery'irens 

 Fickria v^rna 

 ^'rabis ThsiMana 

 Cochlearia officinalis 

 Primula vulgaris 

 0'*xalis Acetos^Ua 

 riola hirta 



can^na 



palustris 

 Potentilla fragarioides 

 Ranunculus AederJiceus 

 Prtinus spinbsa 

 ^nembne nemorbsa 



insititia 



C^rasus . . - 



Primula elMior 



vferis - - - 



t/Mex europse'us 

 f raxinus exc«51sior 

 Barbar^a pras'cox 



vulgaris 

 Pulmonkria ofBcinMis 

 Trifblium subterrkneum 

 Sherard«a arv^nsis 

 Fedia olitbria 

 Stellkria J?ol6stea 

 Facclnium Myrtillus 



Vol. II. — No. 8. 



