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CORRESPONDENCE. 



spots ; Hawthorn in full leaf ; Ranunculus Ficaria in flower at Frampton, 

 near Boston; 9th, Viola odorata in flower at Milton; 19th, Nepeta 

 Gleclioma in full flower at Fletton, cluster cups abundant on Ranunculus 

 Ficaria leaves ; 29th, cluster cups on Ranunculus bulbosus at Frampton ; 

 April 2nd, Cheiranthus cheiri on Cathedral walls, Tustilago Farfara, 

 Lamium album, L. purpureum, Nepeta Gleclioma in full flower at Peter- 

 borough ; 9th, Caltha palustris and Cardamine pratensis in flower at 

 Thorney, Tussilago Farfara in flower and leaf, Narcissus pseudonarcissus in 

 flower in abundance near Croyland; 12th, Alliaria officinalis in flower at 

 Horsey, Matricaria inodora, Cardamine hirsuta in flower near Stanground, 

 and fruiting stems of Equisetum arvense near Whittlesea. — J. W. Bodger, 

 Peterborough. 



Botanical Notes. — February 17th, Snowdrops plentiful in Foremark 

 Wood. March 5th, a few flowers of Viola odorata on Askew Hill ; Colts- 

 foot Tussilago Farfara, in full bloom in several places ; Ground Ivy, 

 Nepeta Gleclioma, many patches in flower ; Marsh Marigold, Caltha palus- 

 tris, one or two flowers in an osier bed ; the Daisy, sparingly, on a bank 

 facing the south. March 17th, Lesser Celandine, Ranunculus Ficaria, in 

 a small plantation ; Dog's Mercury, M. perennis, in bud. March 25th, 

 Draba verna in flower near Ticknall ; Wood Anemone and Primrose in 

 flower at Bretby Wood. April 5th, Saxifraga tridactylites in flower on an 

 old wall ; and White Dead Nettle, Lamium album, on hedge banks. 

 April 12th, Cardamine hirsuta in flower; and C. pratensis not quite out, 

 but showing clearly the lilac colour of the petals. — J. H., Kepton. 



Botanical Notes feom South Beds : — 



Name. Date. Aspect 



Anemone pulsatilla .... 



Primula veris 



Carex prsecox 



Adoxa moschatellina . . 



Viola canina 



Cardamine pratensis . . 

 Ranunculus auricomus 

 ,, bulbosus . . 

 Lamium galeobdolon . , 

 Cardamine hirsuta .... 

 Cerastium semidecandrum 

 Eriophorum polystachyon 

 Luzula campestris . . . 



Myosotis arvensis 

 Paris quadrifolia 



Prunus spinosa 



Cardamine hirsuta, 1878. 

 1879. 

 1880. 



Equisetum arvense 



March 27th 



March 20th 



March 18th 



April 7th 



April 10th 



March 23rd 

 April 2nd 

 April 18th 



April 17th 



April 18th 



March 1st 

 April 15th 

 April 5th 



April 19th 



S.E. 



Situation, &c. 



Chiltern Hills on chalk 



At the edge of a wood. 

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Moist meadows. 



Hedge bank. 



Railway bank. 



Hedge bank. 



River bank. 



Hedge bank. 



Marsh. 



Moist meadow ; protero- 

 gynous — the stigmas 

 had ripened and the an- 

 thers were developed. 



Fallow field. 



In an old clay pit in a 

 wood. 



Hedge. 



(On an old ''wall with 

 N.E. aspect. In 1880 

 the plants are 

 dwarfed ; in 1878 they 

 were vigorous, 

 open Moist j meadow. 



J. Saunders, Luton. 



S. 



s.w. 



open 



S. 



N.E. 



