ARTICLES 



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Name of Species; 



Malva sylvestris . 

 Rosa canina 

 Polygonum aviculare 

 Stellaria graminea 

 Poa pratensis 

 Valerianella auricula 

 Festuca ovina 

 Poa fluitans 

 Vicia cracca 

 Mimulus luteus 

 Galium mollugo 

 Achillea millefolia 

 Apium graveolens 

 Rosa rubiginosa . 

 Ononis arvensis . 

 Spiraea ulmaria . 



Average 



G 6 



5 

 6 



5 

 7 

 6 



7 

 5 



Trifolium arvense 

 Teucrium scorodonium . 

 Linaria vulgaris . 

 Digraphis arundinacea . 

 Sambucus ebulus 

 Eupatorium cannabiense 

 Artemisia vulgaris 

 Arctium lappa 



Average 



Time 



Range in 



Days. 



17 

 17 

 24 

 30 

 22 

 26 

 16 

 26 



15 

 26 

 16 



19 



27 



19 



20 



24 



21-5 



20 



17 



24 

 26 



19 

 23 

 26 



15 



Average Date of Flowering. 



June 



I 

 I 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 4 

 5 



7 



II 



II 



12-13 



14 



16 = 



17 = 



18 = 

 20 = 



93rd day 



93rd „ 



94ti^ .. 



95th „ 



95th „ 



96th .. 



97tli .. 



99th „ 



103rd „ 



103rd „ 



104-5 ,. 



io6th ,, 



108th „ 



109th „ 



iioth ,, 



ii2th ,, 



21-25 



June 25 



„ 28 



30 



July 6 



6 



.. 13 



19 



20 



1 1 7th day 



I20th ,, 



I22th ,, 



128th ,. 



128th „ 



135th „ 



141st ,, 



142nd „ 



Crithmum maritimum 

 Mentha aquatica . 

 Mentha arvensis . 

 Humulus lupulus. 

 Spiranthes autumnalis 

 Hedera helix 



Average 



14 

 24 

 30 

 28 

 21 

 22 



23-16 



July 28 

 August I 



8 = 



„ 8 



.. 25 



Sept. 6 



150th day 



154th 



i6ist 



i6ist 



178th 



190th 



and the March i records in successive years thus afford a 

 valuable phenological index to February or even to January 

 and perhaps December as well. 



Now the junior of the present authors has been for over nine 

 years a very keen and zealous member of the Wild Flower 

 Society ; and the data here utihsed have been carefully 

 selected from her diaries ^ from records of over 400 plants 

 occurring in this neighbourhood. For reasons just given, all 

 species normally or frequently found in flower on March i 



1 As a precaution, the records of her first year — 191 1— have been ignored ; 

 as it seemed probable that she was not then so fully acquainted, as afterwards, 

 with the habitats of some species, and may therefore have failed to find the 

 flowers at their earliest dates. 



