OBSEETATIOXS IN HEETFOEDSHIRE IN 1880. 



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Tliesc places very fairly represent the coniity, beinfj; spread over 

 the northern, southern, eastern, western, and central districts ; 

 but there are, nevertheless, other localities from which it Avould 

 he desirable to have retnrns. In the extreme south-east of Hert- 

 fordshire observers arc required in the neighbourhood of Bainet, 

 and also near Waltham Cross or Cheshunt ; and in the north-west 

 it would be an ad\antai::;e to have observers at or near Tring, 

 Eensworth, Hitchin, and Stevenage. 



The time of flowering of seventy species of plants, a larger 

 number than in any previous year, has been observed in the county. 

 The total number of species selected by the Meteorological Society 

 for observation is seventy-one, one species only, Gentiana campestris, 

 having thus escaped observation. For this, in my report for 1878, 

 I suggested that Gentiana Amarella should be substituted, for 

 reasons then explained, but no observations of this species have yet 

 been recorded. 



Of these 70 species we observed 57 at or near "Watford ; 16 were 

 observed in the neighbourhood of St. Albans by Mr. George 

 "Willshin (South End), and 47 by Mrs. Arnold (Reclbourn Bury); 

 58 were observed at Harpenden by Mr. Willis; 12 at Hoddesdon 

 by Miss A. Warner; 61 at Hertford by Mr. R. T. Andrews ; 13 at 

 High Wych, near Sawbridgeworth, by Miss Simpson ; 42 near 

 Ware by Mr. "R. B. Croft (Fanhams Hall) ; 48 at Great Hormead, 

 near Buntingford, by the Eev. J. S. ifoster Chamberlain; and 19 

 at Odsey, by Mr. H. George Fordham. These observations are all 

 recorded in the table on pp. 258, 259. 



In the following supplementary table are recorded 7 obsei'va- 

 tions at Watford by (1) Dr. Brett, and 7 by (2) Mrs. Joseph Hill; 

 3 at Berkhampstead by Mr. A. S. Eve ; anci 5 at St. Albans by 

 (1) Mr. A. E. Gibbs, and 3 by (2) Miss Rose White. 



Xo. 



1 

 2 



4 

 12 

 16 

 22 

 25 

 37 

 52 

 57 

 61 

 65 

 61 

 71 



Species. 



Anemone nemorom 



Ranunculus Ficaria 



CaJtha palustris 



Stellnria Holostea 



Geraniicin Robertianum .... 



Pruntis spinosa 



Potent ilia Frngariaatrum 



Tussilago Farfara 



Veronica Chatnccdrys .... 



Nepeta Glechoma 



Primula veris 



Salix caprea 



Xarcissits Pseudo-narcis. 

 Emlymion nutans 



Of the 26 species of insects and birds, etc., in the list, 20 have 

 been observed during the year, this being, as in the case of the 

 plants, a larger number than in any previous year. 



