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TllANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [sess. lv. 



among the worst injured, but the full extent of the injury- 

 will be better known next month. Of the forty spring 

 flowering plants whose dates of flowering are annually re- 

 corded the followmg eleven came into flower: — PJiododendron 

 Nohleanum (March 1st), Scilla hifolia (3d), S. hifolia taurica 

 (5th), Iris reticulata (6th), Mandragora vernalis (14th), Scilla 

 hifolia alba (14th), Narcissus pumilus (19th), Sisyrinchium 

 grandiflorum (23rd), 8. grandifiorum alburn (28th), Orohus 

 vernus (29th), Eibcs sanguineum (31st). On the rock-garden 

 forty species and varieties came into bloom as against 

 seventy-three for the corresponding month last year. The 

 most interesting were : — Chionodoxa Lvxillice, Ch. sardensis, 

 Corydalis angustifolia, Da^jkne Fhillipiana, Dentaria entua- 

 phjjlla, Doronicum caucasicum, Draba Mauni, Polygala Chamce- 

 buxus 2mrpurca, Saxifraga Burscriana Boydii, S. crassifolia, 

 S. junipcrina, S. lutea purpurea, S. oppositifolia, S. sancta, 

 Soldanella montana. 



Readings of exposed Thermometer at the Rock-Garden of the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, during March 1891. 



Date. 



1st 



2nd 



3rd 



4th 



5th 



6 th 



7th 



8th 



9th 



10th 



11th 



12th 



13th 



14th 



15th 



16th 



Mioiiinini. 



42^ 



37 



30 



35 



35 



36 



22 



25 



15 



15 



27 



19 



20 



19 



25 



34 



Date. Miuimum. 



17th 33^* 



9 A.M. Maximum. 

 35° 42" 



18th 



19th 



20th 



21st 



22nd 



23rd 



24th 



25th 



2Gth 



27th 



28th 



29th 



30th 



31st 



37 

 31 

 29 

 29 

 34 

 28 

 32 

 35 

 30 

 29 

 33 

 32 

 26 

 25 



38 

 35 

 39 

 37 

 40 

 40 

 39 

 40 

 38 

 34 

 41 

 44 

 35 

 44 



45 

 47 

 46 

 45 

 44 

 53 

 49 

 48 

 46 

 46 

 48 

 51 

 46 

 51 



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