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CORRESPONDENCE REPORTS. 



Botanical Notes from South Beds. — Earliest Observed Dates 



of Flowering : — 



Name. Date. 



* Spiranthes autumnalis j August 28th. 

 Hedera helix October 3rd. 



Aspect. 

 S.E. 

 Open. 



Ash. 



Oak 

 Elm 



Foliage. 

 Novem. 1st. 



1st. 

 1st. 



Open. 



Open. 

 Open. 



Soil, &c. 

 Lower chalk, hill side. 



About half the foliage 



fallen. 

 Heads of foliage, full. 

 Heads of foliage, full. 



Second Blossoming this Season. 



Cornus sanguinea 



Lonicera Periclymenum 



Sept. 19th. 

 Oct. 10th. 



S.W. Hedgerow. 

 W. Hedgerow, 

 freely. 



Latest Observed Dates of Flowering. 



blooming 



Lactuca muralis 



Spiraea filipendula 



Calaminta acinos 



Campanula hybrida 



Parnassia palustris 



Anthyllis vulneraria . . . 



Ononis arvensis 



Vicia sepium 



Convolvulus sepium . . . 

 Campanula glomerata . 



Stellaria graminea 



Gentiana amarella 



Helianthemum vulgare . 

 Pimpinella saxifraga . . . 



Keseda lutea 



Scrophularia aquatica . 

 Scabiosa columbaria . . . 



Reseda luteola 



Geranium Robertianum . 



Linaria spuria 



L. elatine 



Myosotis palustris . . . . . 

 Equisetum palustre . . . 

 Ranunculus acris 



Old wall. 

 Chalk, hill side. 

 Stubble field. 

 Turnip field. 

 Chalk escarpment. 

 Chalk escarpment. 

 Chalk escarpment. 

 Hedge. 

 Hedge. 



Chalk escarpment. 

 Green lane. 

 Chalk escarpment. 

 Chalk escarpment. 

 Chalk escarpment. 

 Railway bank. 

 Spring head. 

 Chalk escarpment. 

 Chalk escarpment. 

 Hedge bank 

 Stubble field. 

 Stubble field. 

 Under a warm hedge. 

 Moist meadow. 

 Meadow. 



J. S., Luton. 



Reports rf jfairi jea. 



BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 

 Geological Section. — October 26th. Mr. Morley mentioned seeing four Lunar 

 Rainbows in one evening in Naut, Francon. Mr. C. Pumphrey exhibited a curiously- 

 mottled Limestone f rom Tenbury, collected at the excursion of the Worcestershire 

 Society. Mr. W. Madeley, secretary of tbe Dudley Society, read an interesting 

 paper on " Coal," describing the origin of coal in vegetable matter accumulated 

 in swampy tracts, which were sometimes submerged for long periods, during 

 which shales and bands of ironstone were deposited. The various organic 



* Spiranthes autumnalis, on October 11th, 1879, was in full blossom on a chalk 

 hill side with S.E. aspect. At the same spot, on October 9th, 1880, only a few spikes 

 with ripe capsules, were to be seen. 



