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Mr Sadler's Nok on Floivcrimj Plants. 



Aster grarninifolius, 

 Anthericum liliago. 

 Cathcartia villosa. 

 Campanula thyraoidea. 

 Cypripedium spectabile. 

 Dianthus alpinus. 



„ suavis. 

 Eriogonum aureum. 

 Gentiana lutea. 

 Gorteria acaulis. 

 Gillenia trilbliata. 

 Kalmia angustifolia. 



Lilium Chaixii. 



,, colchicum. 

 Linnaea borealis. 

 Lonicera tomeiitella. 

 Milla longipes. 

 Orchis foliosa. 



„ maculata superba. 

 Papaver alpina. 

 Primula capitata. 

 Spirtea aruncus. 

 Stenactis speciosa. 

 Wulfenia Amherstiana. 



July. — The lowest readings of the thermometer during 

 the month were registered on the mornings of the 5th, 44""; 

 9th, 45°; lltli, 44°; 12th, 45°; 25th, 46°; 26th, 45°. Since 

 last month 135 species and varieties of plants came into 

 flower in the rock garden, making a total of 801 compared 

 with 561 at the corresponding period of last year. The 

 following were amongst those which came into flower 

 during the month : — 



Alstroemeria aurea. 

 Baptisia australis. 

 Cassinia fulvida. 

 Convolvulus lineatus. 

 Delphinium velutinum. 

 Dianthus cruentus. 

 Erica ramulosa. 

 Gaillardia grandiflora. 

 Gentiana septemfida. 



Hypericum empetrifolium. 

 Lilium pardalinum. 

 Mcehringia muscosa. 

 Potentilla formosa. 

 Senecio pulcher. 

 Lilium auratum. 



„ dalmaticum. 

 Mulgedium alpinum. 

 Olearia Haastii. 



Note on Table of Flowering of Plants in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, fiom 1850 to 1882, By John 

 Sadler, Curator. (With Table). 



(Exhibited 13th July 1882.) 



The annexed table shows the dates of the flowering of 

 forty plants during three decades and two years. The 

 observations were begun by the late James Macnab, and 

 continued by his successor. 



