IX. 



EErORT OX PHEXOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OBSERVED IN 

 nERTFOIIDSIIIEE DURING THE YEAR 1881. 



By JouN HoPKiNsoN, F.L.S., F.M.S., Hon. Soc. 



Bead at TFatford, 2lst March, 1882. 



Neaklt all the observers "wlio recorded Phcnological Phenoracna 

 in 1880 have continued to observe in 1881, and the localities at 

 "which regular observations have been made are almost the same as 

 in that year. In the principal table giving the dates of flowering 

 of plants, instead of Hoddesdon, at which 12 species were observed 

 this year as last, is inserted Berkhampstead, at which were observed 

 21 this year and only 3 the previous year, and for South End near 

 St. Albans we have had to substitute St. Albans. Tlie supple- 

 mentary table is considerably extended, comprising seven stations 

 instead of five, and twenty species in place of fourteen. 



The latitudes and longitudes of the phonological stations, from 

 which returns are entered in the tables, are as follow : — 



N. Lat. Long. N. Lat. Long. 



"Watford 51 39 24 w Hertford 51 48 5w 



Hunton Bridge 5141 26w Harpenden 5148^ 21w 



St Albans 5145 20w High Wych 51 48| 8e 



Berkhampstead 51451 34w Fanhams Hall 5149" Iw 



Hoddesdon 51 46 Iw Throcking 51 57 3w 



Hailey Hall 51 46^ Iw Great Hormead 5157 2e 



Redboum Bury 5147" 23w Odsey 52 1^ 7w 



For their position in the county, reference should be made to the 

 outline-map given in the previous report.* 



Of the 71 species of |)lants in the Meteorological Society's list 

 the date of flowering of 70 species has been observed in the county, 

 the same number as in 1880. Of these we observed 51 in the 

 neighbourhood of Watford; 21 were observed at Berkhampstead 

 by Mr. A. S. Eve ; 23 at St. Albans by (1) Mr. A. E. Gibbs ; 18 

 at Redbourn Bury near St. Albans by (2) Mrs. Arnold ; 57 at 

 Harpenden by Mr. J. J. Willis; 64 at Hertford by ^[r. R. T. 

 Andrews ; 34 at Fanhams Hall near Ware by Mr. R. B. Croft ; 33 

 at High Wych near Sawbridge worth by Miss Simpson ; 45 at 

 Great Hormead near Buntingford by the Rev. J. S. fPoster Chamber- 

 lain ; and 18 at Odsey by Mr. H. George Fordham. These obser- 

 vations are recorded in the table on pp. 72, 73. 



In the following supplementary table are recorded 7 observations 

 at Watford by Dr. A. T. Brett ; 3 at Hunton Bridge by Mrs. 

 Vaughan ; 4 at St. Albans by (1) Mr. F. W. Silvester (Hedges) ; 

 4 at St. Alhans by (2) Miss Rose C. White; 12 at Hoddesdon by 

 !Miss Alice Warner; 8 at Hailey Hall near Hertford by Mr. H. ('. 

 Heard; and 14 at Throcking near Buntingford by the Rev. C. W. 

 Harvey. 



* 'Trans. Herts Nat. Hist. Soc.,' Vol. I, p. 257. 



