COKl!ESPOXt)EN"CE. 



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Pl.\xts IX Bloom First Wkeic ok Jaxcaky, 1882. — I enclose a list 

 of plants found by myself in bloom in the first week of this year. 

 I thought such a list would prove interesting. It shows how extremely 

 mild the winter is this year. If you remember, the winter of 1877 and 

 opening months of 1878 were remarkably mild, but I am under the 

 impression that the present winter is milder. There are not so many 

 plants in flower, for this reason that many of the late summer flowers 

 were killed by the frost and snows in November or early part of 

 December. Vegetation is everywhere remarkably forward, and in 

 many trees the new buds are opening. Rumex obtusifolius. Sisym- 

 brium thalianum, Potentilla Fragariastrum, Hisymbi'ium officinale, 

 Cardamiue hirsuta, Heracleum Hphondyliuni, Ranunculus Ficaria, 

 Seneci vulgaris. Geranium molle, Draba verna, Lactuca muralis. 

 Lychnis vespertina, Veronica Buxbaumii, V. agrestis, V. hederifolia, 

 Scleranthus annuus, Viola tricolor, Calluua vulgaris,' Capsella Bursa- 

 pastoris, Lamium album, L. amplexicaule, L. purpureum. Cerastium 

 viscosum, C. vulgatum, Bellispereimis, Helleborus foetidus. Taraxacum 

 Dens-leonis, Ulex Europajus, Vicia hirsuta, Alchemilla arvensis, Rubus 

 communis, Shei'ardia arvensis, Lapsana communis, Spergula arvensis, 

 Sagina procumbens. Euphorbia peplus. Galanthus nivalis. Primula 

 vulgaris, Fumaria officinalis. Ilrtica ureiis, Ranimculus repeus, 

 Matricaria inodora, Carduus nutans. Euphorbia helioscopia, yinapis 

 arvensis, Sonchus olcraceus, Myosotis collina, Matricaria parthenium, 

 Hieracium sylvaticuui, and male catkins of Alder and Hazel.— J. 

 Caswell, St. Mary's, Oscott, January 19th, 1882. 



Botanical Notes from South Beds, with Voucher Specimens : — 

 Name. ,oo„ : ^gyj_ ^gg^ 



Helleborus viridis 

 Cardamiue hirsuta 



Date. Date. Date. . , 1 f,...,„t- o i ^ 



1880 1881 1882 'Aspect. aituatioii. Soil, etc. 



Feb. 11 — Jan 



April 5 liar. 1.5 .Jan. 10 X.E 



Corylns Avellaua ...Feb. 22 Feb. 13.Jan. 

 Potentilla Fragarias-| — !Mar. 20 Jan. 



truiii I I 



Tussilat;o Farfara . .Mar. 3' — Jau. 

 Kanuuculus Ficaria ... JIar. 13 — — 



Kanuuculus Ficaria ... I — Mar. CJau. 



Draba veriia ..I — iMar. 8 Feb. 



Adosa moschatelliurt .Mar. 20.-Vi)ril j Feb. 



.\neiiiouc ucijiorosa 

 Salix capvea 

 Petasiti's vuIkbHs 

 Caltha i)aliistris 

 Prunus spiuosa 



IMar. 13 Mar. iH.Mar. 

 [Mar. V- — Mar. 

 ;Mar. 13Atar. 29 Mar. 

 Mar. 13 Mar. I.t Mar. 

 i.Vpril 1.S — Mar. 



7 Open Moist meadow— First fo- 

 I liage and inflorescence 

 Wall top— 111 fruit this 

 year Jan. 10 ;" the other 

 dates in floicer oiilv. 

 11 Open .Hedge row. 

 15 AV. Coppice. 



25^ S. iRailway bank. 

 Open Boggy soil. 

 W. Warm bank, sandy soil ; 

 not general till middle 

 of February in 1882. 

 Open Fallow fields. 

 S. Warm bank— Foliage & 

 inflorescence about 3 

 in. high, mu flowers 

 unoi)ened. 

 3 — IWoods. 

 o Open Hedgerows. 

 10 Open Boggy meadow. 

 10 Open Boggv meadow. 

 IC Open iHedges. 



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It should be stated that the stations of the above were the same in 

 each season, or with precisely similar conditions. During the whole of 

 the present abnormal winter, from October, 1.S81, primroses and dog 

 mercury have been in blossom in coppices w-here the uudergro\vth had 

 been previously cut down, but none appeared where this had not been 

 done. In fallow fields Veronica ari-ensi>i and ScivkU.v I'l'den-Vinerit 

 have been in blossom both plentifully and coutinuouslv. — J. Sauxdkk.s, 

 Luton. March LSth. 1882. 



