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this singular genus.recorded in. the Flora.Peruviana, and it is not improbable, that 
distinct plants have been confounded under the name of T. peregrinum; Dr. Sims 
doubts if Feuillée’s plant, cited as a synonym of this by all preceding writers, be the 
sane However this may he, there is no doubt respecting Jacquin’s plant, well figured 
in his Hortus Schoenbrunensis. 
The Enews Frora, for last month, offers to our notice, 
Rubus sawatilis, 2 native of high mountains im the northern part of the island. The 
specimen from which the drawing was‘taken was gathered by Mr, Borrex, at Roslin, 
famous for its antique chapel, and delicious strawberries, 
Brasrica campestris. Dr. Smith remarks, that great uncertainty has existed among 
British authors, even from the time of Ray, respecting this plant. Iudson’s campestris is 
a mere yellow variety oforientalis. According to Mr. Edw. Forster, this is the com- 
mon wild navew, growing abundantly by the sides of rivers, marsh ditches, &c.; and 
that the B. Napus of Unglish Flora, is the rape, or cole-seed, so commonty cultivated, 
Hieracium prenanthoides.. Bronght from Scotland many years age by Mr. Dixon, 
and has been ever sincé in Mr. BE, Forster’s curden, from whence the drawing was 
made. Dr. Smith observesthat, in the Flora Britannica, he had confounded ‘this plant 
with denticulatum. There continues to be great difficulty in settling the species of this 
genus.. Dr, Smith believes, from the dried specimens he has received from Mr. G. Don, 
that the Scottish species are not yet all determined, but that the greatest attention te 
living plants can alone enable him to reduce them to order. When that is accom- 
plished, he possesses ample materials for settling their synonyms. 
Carex Micheliana, introduced into, Dr. Smith’s I'lora Britannica, he is now convinced 
is only a variety of recurva, as which he first received it from Dr, Beattie, of Aberdeen. 
The name of Micheliana being therefore superfluous, as Dr. Smith himself allows, ought 
* not surely to have been suffered to stand as the title of this mere varicty of recurva, T 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of December 1810, to the 
24th of January 1811, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's, 
Barotieter. Thermometer. 
"Highest, 30°10. Dec. 30 and $1. Wind N.E. | Higheft, 57° Dec. 27. Wind S.W. 
Lowest, 28°70. Dec, 25, —— S.W. | Lowest, 19° Jan. 10. —_wN Rp, 
In the morning On 
tl 
‘{ of the second inst. Ghastot the iecthy o€ Jan. 
} reXtes was, az 
| Greatest ) 51 hun- the thermometer feo > 
is seen above, at 192, 
variation i, > dredths of but on the 11th it was 
84hours. an inch. at no time lower thaa 
42F ors 
stood at 29°87, and} Variationin 
at the same hour | 24 hours. 
on the third, it 
. was no_ higher 
than-29-36. ° 
Tue quantity of rain fallen this month is but small ; it will be noticed in the 
it has rained six or seyen days, but there was oniy a small quantity fell at a time 
The average height of the thermometer, for the whole month, is only 31° 
the recollection of all, that though at the commencement of our month, viz. t 
weather was remarkably mild; yet, for about a fortnight from the 29th 
during which a good deal of snow fell. There have been some very thick fogs, and 1 : 
dark and dull weather ; nevertheless, the number of brilliant days has been nine. ’ nak i eg 
hag chiefly been in the northerly quarters, and some days it has blown very eolbabiy: re win 
Oar correspondént from the Isle of Wight, has kindly transmitted to us the result of hi 
ebservations, taken during the months of October, November, and December ; by which = 
appears that she . it 
next Report, 
it will bein 
iz. the 25th ult. the 
» IC was very Severe, 
Average heat for Oct. was 50° nearly. 
mcesiie ele’), CONOVa) at Ged O 
eecvescte. Dec. —-499 
Quantity of rain that fell inthe menth of Oct. equal 5-125 : 
ona amen sank wa sacs Be wade «----- Nov. —— 10-400 Sinchesi 
eC ETP IE Ye ca oh lla alas 
f ae 
20-025 
By this it will appear, that in the island, as well as in the neighbourhood ‘ 
those wete very rainy months ; in the. whole quantity being tather more pei snementis 
depth. 
Highgate, Fan. 25, 1814. 
