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damp and misty. A very large colony of these birds established itself the 

 same year in the sand-pits, near the Itchen Ferry, but the bulk of its 

 members did not make their appearance till three or four weeks after the 

 above date. 



A-bout the end of March, 1849, I saw a Crested Grebe, {Podiceps cristatm,) 

 on the Southampton Water. 



Fleetwood, September 1th., 1852. 



NOTES ON 

 SPRING FLOWERS AND MIGRATORY BIRDS. 



BY S. HANNAFORD, ESQ., JUN. 



My Botanical papers in "The Naturalist," having commenced with May, last 

 yearj there are some few of our rarer plants which I did not then mention, 

 and some even which are not included in my "Flora Tottoniensis," 1851; these 

 I purpose naming very briefly here, with the dates of the arrival of such of 

 our migratory birds as I have seen. 



April 2nd. — On the banks of the Dart, between Hood Cottage and Austin's 

 Bridge, I found this day Vacoinium Mt/rtillus, (Whortleberry,) many of the 

 flowers of which have ten stamens, although included in the Linnaean class 

 Octandria; Calluna vulgaris, (Common Ling;) Alchemilla arvensis, (Lady's 

 Mantle;) the two last-named are not yet in flower, but mentioned here as 

 this is a new habitat for the former, and the latter has not been previously 

 observed. Tassilago petasites, (Butterbur;) occasionally in dry hedges, Luzula 

 campestris, (Field Rush;) Hypnum hornum, H. dendroides, H. alopecuruni, 

 H. squarrosum, Polytrichura commune, Anomodon viticulosum, etc., etc. 



April 7th. — ChiiF-chafi", (Si/lvia hippolais,) heard this day. 



April 9th. — On an orchard hedge between Totnes and Truestreet, I met 

 with Vinca major, (Greater Periwinkle,) some distance from any house; on a 

 bank in Weston lane, near Truestreet, which was covered with Vinca 7ninor, I 

 obtained specimens of Asarum Europcmmi, (Asarabacca;) Helleborus viridis, 

 (Green Hellebore;) and in a copse on the Paignton road. Daphne 1 aureola, 

 (Spurge Laurel;) in great beauty Viola odorata, (Sweet Violet,) the white 

 variety; and F. canina, in greater abundance and finer than I have ever seen it 

 elsewhere; by the roadsides everywhere Cardamine hirsuta, (Hairy Cardamine,) 

 and on walls Arabis hirsuta, Hairy Wall Cress;) Galium cruciatum too, is 

 just coming into flower, and it occurs to me here that no botanical work men- 

 tions the beautiful dark crimson colour of the stem above each whorl of flowers. 



April 9th. — Blackcap, (Ourriica atricapilla,) heard this day. The early 

 arrival of this bird is rather extraordinary, the weather being very cold; an 

 east wind having prevailed for twelve weeks. 



xVpril 13th. — Martin, {Hirundo urbica,) and Redstart, (Phoenicnra ruticilla,) 

 seen this day. 



