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Hocus Lanatus Passim 
*Melica Uniflora Near Gallows Hill 
*Glyceria Rigida Chalk-pit at Gallows Hill 
*Briza Media Passim 
* Festuca Elatior Passim 
* Bromus Sterilis Passim 
* 4, Mollis Passim 
*Triticwm Repens 
*Lolium Perenne Near Hertford 
* Hordeum Pratense St. Margarets 
*  ,, Murinun Passim 
ACOTYLEDONS. 
FILICES. ‘ 
Pteris Aquilina Passim 
Asplenium Ruta-Muraria Terrace field 
Scolopendrium Vulgare Terrace field 
Nephrodium Filix-mas [Lastrea] Passim 
Ophioglossum Vulgatum Hailey House Cricket Ground 
EQUISETACER. 
Equisetum Aryense Passim ” 
»  Silvaticum Hoddesdon-road 
+ 7.. xPanusire Near Ware 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
It may be remembered that in the report for last year the statisties of the 
weather were omitted on account of their incompleteness. It was then hoped 
that we should be able to publish a full and accurate set of tables for the year 
1874, but this hope has unfortunately not been fulfilled. We have to lament 
the complete loss of the statistics for the latter half of December—the most 
interesting period of the year,—and the partial loss of those for April, August, 
and September. But, in spite of these unfortunate losses, it was thought that 
the part of the year during which the observations were complete was long 
enough to warrant their publication. 
In the temperature of the air both higher and lower readings have been 
recorded in 1874 than in 1878. Those under 25° were: 20° on March 11th, 
22° on January 6th and 11th, and 23° on December 3rd, while the temperature 
was down to 25° on January 7th and 12, and on December 4th. Those above 
80° were: 81° on July 11th and 20th, 82° on July 14th, and 85° on Aug. 8th. 
The recorded falls of rain for this year are, on the contrary, much smaller. 
In 1873 there were three falls of more than one inch, viz., 1°39 on July 12th, 
1:50 on August 24th, and 1-07 on September 30th. In 1874 there have been 
no falls of more than one inch, and only the following of more than °70 in.: 
78 on February 27th, °85 on July 1ith (of this -75 fell in thirty minutes), 
1:00 on September 4th, and -72 on November 29th. The total fall for the 
year was 19°63 in. (including that in December, for an account of which see 
the tables appenied) This gives a monthly average of 1-63—without Decem- 
ber the total would be 17°79 and the average 1°61. ‘The driest month was 
March, in which 0°58 in. of rain fell; next comes August, with 0°63in. The 
wettest were October, with 3°08in., and September with 2°36 in. 
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