76 Bigelow on Climate. 
limosella,* with its congeners, hence will take its place in the 
natural order lysimachize of Jussieu. 
Ant. XV. Professor Bicerow, on the comparative i 
wardness of the Spring, in different parts of the United 
States, t in 1817. ; 
Wi: have been favoured with an ingenious memoir on this 
subject, by the author, Professor Bigelow, of Boston ; it is @ 
part of the fourth volume of the Memoirs of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
Professor Bigelow, availing himself of a hint given him 
some years ago by the late venerable Dr. Muhlenberg of 
Pennsylvania, ascertained, through the medium of corres- 
pondence with accurate observers in different parts of North 
America, the time of flowering, for “1817, of the common 
fruit trees and a few other plants”—« found i in most parts of 
the United States.” 
The peach-tree was the one most uniformly returned, and 
the following table exhibits the time of its flowering, in places 
sufficiently numerous and remote, to afford a fair specimen of 
these observations : 
Lat. Long. Peach-tree in blossom 
Fort  Clatberi: Alab. Ter. 31° 50’ 87° 50’ March 4 
Charleston, S.C... . . 52 44. 60 SO, - Oe 
Richmond, Va. . . . . . 37 40 77 50 .. .23 Ap-& 
Demupten, Ry... S. 88 6 85 8 April 6 16 
Baltimore, Md... . . . ao: 3. 37 4A 
Philadelphia, P. . . so: 36 75 3 eg ne <, 
New-York,N.Y.. . . . 40 T gl, ok ae ee 
Montreal, Can... . . . 45 $5 738 1... 12 
+ No return of this tree was Swart om Brunswick. The date of 
wan is therefore substinted, whith! is usually in blossom at the sa 
