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CORRESPONDENCE. 



Botanical Notes from South Beds, with Specimens. — 



Name. 

 Corylus Avellana 

 Mercurialis perennis 



Ranunculus Ficaria 



Date. 

 Feb. 13th. 

 March 6th. 



March 1st. 



March 6th. 



Draba verna March 8th. 



Caltha palustris March loth. 



Cardamine hirsuta March 15th. 



Anemone nemorosa .... March 18th 



Potentilla Fragariastrum.. March 26th 



Petasites vulgaris March 29th 



Nepeta Glechoma March 30th 



Viola sylvatica April 2nd. 



Aspect 

 S.W. 



S.W. 



W. 



open, 

 open. 



W. 

 S.W. 



W. 

 open. 

 S.E. 



S.W. 



S.W. 



Soil, Situation, &c. 

 Chalk. Coppice. 

 Marsh spinney. First 



pistillate plants seen. 

 Staminate flowers not 



unfrequent. 

 Warm bank, on sandy 



soil. 

 Itoad side, on sandy soil. 

 Boggy meadow.* 

 Bank of rivluet. 

 Coppice, on clay soil. 

 Coppice, on chalky soil. 

 Boggy meadow.* 

 Warm hedge bank, chalky 



soil. 

 Warm hedge bank.chalky 



soil. 

 Coppice, on chalky soil. 



Fragaria vesca | ,, 



* On March 13th, 1880, in this meadow, Butter-bur, Marsh Marigold, 

 and Pilewort were well out in blossom and much more advanced than 

 at the end of March of this year. — J. S., Luton. 



Flowering of Plants. — March 15th. Potentilla Fragariastrum, 

 Ranunculus Ficaria ; March 16th, Belli* perennis, Tussilago Farfara ; 

 April 7th, Adoxa moschatellina ; April 11th, Anemone nemorosa ; April 

 14th, Viola eanina, Glechoma hcderacea, Luzula eampestris ; April 17th, 

 Stellaria llolostea, Oxalis Acetosella. — O. M. F., Frankton, Salop. 



Autumn Flowering of Mercurialis perennis, Ac. — On November 

 27th, 1873, a specimen of this plant was brought to me ; on September 

 27th, 1878, my sister found one in flower, and others were found that 

 year up to December 6th. Again, from October 17th to November 5th, 

 1879, specimens were gathered from time to time. I have been led to 

 expect specimens every year, though last autumn none were found, so 

 far as my experience goes. The remarkably warm December of last 

 year brought Ruscus aculeatus into bloom. Potentilla Fragariastrum 

 was in flower on November 29th, and Veronica hederifolia as early as 

 October 6th. All three of them have continued in flower ever since. — 

 T. A. Preston, Marlborough. 



Glossary of Minim; Terms. — I am preparing for the English 

 Dialect Society a " Glossary of Mining Terms," and shall be much 

 indebted to any one who will help me by sending lists of the terms 

 now actually in use ; or references to published works in which such 

 terms are contained. — James Britten, Nat. Hist. Museum, South 

 Kensington, S.W. 



Dicranum montanum, new Warwickshiiu- habitat. — On Saturday, 

 April 16th, whilst searching in some of the woods near Coventry for 

 Hepaticao, I came across a fine growth of the rare moss, Dicranum 

 montanum. This moss I first found, in 1870, in Sutton Park ; it was then 

 new to the British Flora, and for some little time the Sutton Park 

 locality was the only known British station. Subsequently, Mr. E. M. 

 Holmes, one of the most indefatigable of English Bryologists, found it 

 iu Abbe; Wood, l\ent, from whence lie sent me nice specimens; more 

 recently it has been found in the North of Scotland, in the East 

 Highland province. Unfortunately, in 1871, the oak upon which this 

 moss was abundant in Sutton Bark was felled, and so my first station 





