Meteorohgkal TMe kept at Kinfawis. 385 



ANNUAL RESULTS. 



MORNING. 



BAROMETEtt. THERMOMETEE. 



Obtervations. Wind. Wind. 



Highest, 29th Oct. SW. 30.44 26th June, SW. ...<»• 



Lowest, 21 St Mar. W. 28.59 18th February, SW. . . . 3<r 



BVBNINO. 

 Highest, 28th Oct. SW. 30.48 22d June, SW. ... 69' 



Lowest, 2l8tMar. W. 28.70 10th January, NE. ... 28* 



WEATHER. Days. WIND. Timet. 



Fair, 218 N. and NE, 44 



Rain or Snow, 148 E. and SE 93 



S. and SW 146 



^®^ W. andNW 83 



36G 



Extreme Cold and Heat, by Six's Thermometer. 



Coldest, nth January, . . Wind, NW 22* 



Hottest, 29th June, ... do. SW 78* 



Mean Temperature for the year 1828, 50'.219 



Results of Two Rain-Gauges. 



Iiuioa 



1. Centre of Kinfauns Garden, about 20 feet above the level pf the 



sea, 33.66 



2. Square Tower, Kinfauns Castle, 140 feet, 34.40 



Description of several Nezv or Hare Plants which have flowered 

 in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh^ and chiefly in the Royal 

 Botanic Garden^ during the last three months. 



lOth March 1828. 



Acacia lanigera. 



A. lanigera ; villosa, foliis (phyllodiis) lanceolatis acutis ri^dis nervosis 

 sulcatis mucronatis : mucrone pungenti, capitulis geminis axillaribus, 

 ramulis superioribus leguminibusve lanuginosis. — Cunningham, in 

 Field's Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales, p. 346. 

 A. lanigera; floribus capitatit;, capitulis axillaribus, geminis, multifloris; 

 stipulis subulatis, herbaceis, marcescentibus ; phyllodiis lanceolato- 

 falcatis, multincrviis, ramulisque lanatis. 



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