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Arild, which suggested Mr. Andrews's appellation of ancora. The ledves are subject to vary 
in length and wrath, . ‘ ‘ 
Veronica Dercoentia. A spilted species of very ordinary appearance ftom the banks of the 
tiver Derwent, in New South Wales. It is not co he expected that names like this will be 
getained by the learned botanist and traveller, Who is how preparing a work on the plants of 
New Holland. 
Protea bumiflord A very distitiet species as it appears, dwarfish, with narrow lanceolate 
Seaves, and asconding branches; che flowers, which are not unl-ke chose of P. cordzla, ave 
crowaed together close tg the ground, Ie flowered in Mr. Hibbert’s Conservatory at Claps 
ham Common. This far-femed collection, although no longa continued by its late worthy 
possessor, we are happy to hear, is not lileély tobe Jost to the public.. Mr. Hibbert, we are 
informed, has disposed of it to his late gardener, to whose skilful management its liigh state 
of pteservation hos oven particularly indebted. Mr. Knight goes into the nursery business 
UAder great advantage, with such a cOllection at “his Guteset. 4 
The Paradisus Londinensis has not ¢omé to our hands this month. 
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NATURALIST’s MONTHLY REPORT. 
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Flowering Monzb. 
From brightening fields of ether fair disclosed, 
Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes, ? 
3n pride of youth, and felt through Nature’s depths r 
He comes, attended by the sultry Hours, 
And ever-fanning Breezes, on hia way;  .. * 
While, trom his ardent look, the tarning Spring 
Averts her blushful face; and earth, and.skies, 
All-smiling, to his hot dominion leaves. ~ 
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T the beginning of the month, the eveningsand nights were, for this ¢eason of the year, . 
unusually cold, Son rain fe¥l Un the ath atid sth: tlie 22d was a rainy day, arid on 
the sth we had 4 few showers, but the rest of the mionth’ has been dty. “The Heat, onthe — 
whole, has not been gteat, but on the roth, zoch, and ewo or three dther days, the wea > 
ther was exceedingly hot. The high pasture lands, towards the end’ of the month, were 
beginssing to look brown and parclred; and J am informed that the turhio crops have been 
Considerably injured by the continued drought. wine 
June sg. The eggs of sore silk worms which 1 had last’year put into a dark closet, and 
hac forgotten, began about this day to produce Cheit young. ee “ 
June8. The following garden plants, amjongst numerous others, are now in flower:—-~ 
Poplar-leaved Cistus (Cstus populifolius), Waved Cistus-(Cistit laxus), Rose Cistus (Cisem 
roseus), Gum Cistus (Cistus ladaniferus), White-flowered Peony (Pasiia albiflora), Sweet - 
William (Dianthus barbatus), Tree Primrose (Oxtothera biennis), Perennial Oenothera (Ocwb~ 
thera fruticosa), aid Grea(-flowered Bellflower (Campanula grandifiora). . 
In fields I observed the Maiden pink. ( Dianthus deltcides), Emglisti Catehfly (Silene ongelicay, 
Cross-leaved heath (£rfca tetralia), and fuie-Yeaved heath (Erica cinerea). 
The deep purple Rowe's cf che fatter give, at this season’of the year, a rich and highly 
beautiful tint to almost all the waste lands in the neighbourhoud from which J wrives 
June 16. A great number of persons, chiefly childten, are occhpied in catching leécheg, ~ 
These they sefl, at the race of about three shillings a dozen, to percons who send them off, 
in great’number§ ata timé,’to London, In sonic parts of the tiveys the animals-are in such 
plenty, that a toy has been Known to catch as many ag thitty or forty in a days Those whe 
are most skilful at the businegs tie tip bundles ‘of weeds (sometimes containing blood, or 
er other avimil substance) and throw them into ptaces' which the leeches moat frequent, 
They take these up af certain’ times, and Gn shaking them to pieces, make » pride of such as 
take shelter in them, Others of the leech-cdtchers get into boats, and, by mbving them 
ther violently, from side to sidé, amongst the weeds, put into motion spth Of the leeches 
as happen to be'in the immediate neighbourhood, which they then Catch by means of a small 
fine net at the erid of a long haridle. @ concéive that ic Would be well worth while-te | 
attempt the same in other parts, where the rivets or,streams art favorable for the production _ 
of these,animals. 4 ie i . :e ; 7 2 + FL te “ 2 “5 vat th eet P| 
June21.. Pie. greatest partiof the chaférs have either léft’Us or béen destroyed. The . 
toads and foot-paths wré, i Biany Places, thitkly strewed with their: shells. Such of the . 
trees 4s Huvé bien injured by thelity* aid particularly the oils; “are"beginning to put out new 
Jeavesy:-ad to regain their lost vérdure. : ‘ 
On the commons and Waste lancs I observe great numbers of the black horned beetle, 
Called Bulitcomber (Searabaus typkeus), lying dead, and appearing perfectly dry and pa 
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