245 a vegetable clock and barometer. ~Oet. 16: 
ficiently accurate for common purposes, which any 
of your readers may pofsefs, by setting the twelve 
following plants in a row in the order here set down, 
all of which are either indigenous or naturalized in 
Great Britain, and seven of them grow wild in 
Scotland, which I have distinguifhed by the letter 
(S.) before the hour indicated in the margin.—If£ 
the sketches given in these two letters excite. your 
correspondents to treat the subjects hinted at, it will 
give pleasure to 
imp. corps of Noble 
Cadetsin St. Pete use. | 
December i 79+. 
ARCTICUs. 
CE eS eee 
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A VEGETABLE GARD.N CLOCK WITH TWO VEGE= 
TBLE BsROMETERS. 
Hours . 
of As there are but ten of the Eqninoxial 
pening plants which open at stated hours, the two 
or ~ first on the ‘ollowing list, are taken from 
Shutting hose which /hut at a given hour. 
Shut at LEnglifh Names. Linnean Names. 
1 Proliferous pink. Dianthus prolifer. 
2. Marsh sow thistle. Sonchus palustris. 
Open at 
S. . 3. Yellow goats beard. Tiagapogon pratense: 
- 4 Yellowdevils bit. Leontadon autumnale, 
S 
S. 5 Common sow thistle. Sonchus oleraceus. 
bs) 
s 
Spotted hawk wecd. Hypocheris maculata. 
6} Narrow leafedbuthy Averactum  umbella- 
ditto. tum. 
: » Broad leafed ditto. Mveracium sabaudum: 
8 Narrow leafed ditto. Meracium auricula. 
5 (Smoota dityo. FT pocheris glabra. 
{ Carolina mallow. Malva Car oliniana: 
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