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week 58f °. I noticed the Libellulidae to be exceedingly numerous 

 this month, especially the bronze-winged fluttering Agrion Virgo, most 

 commonly the attendant of the succeeding month. 



June 1. — Privet generally in flower. The elegant crimson grass- 

 vetch {Lathyrus Nissolia) out most profusely, as well as the rarer 

 Lathyrus Aphaca. Hooker gives May for the former, which is correct. 

 Lathyrus pratensis also sparingly in blossom, though the Floras all 

 say July for it. 



June 2. — CEnanthe pimpinelloides in flower in its old habitat on 

 the dry red marl at Powick. The Floras are here again " behind time," 

 for they all say July, though even in ordinary seasons it begins to 

 flower about the middle of June. It is remarkable, that although this 

 plant is abundant in many hilly meadows between the Malvern hills 

 and the Severn, I have never found it north of Worcester. 



June 4. — Woodbine (Lonicera Periclymenum) in full flower. This 

 no doubt came out earlier, but I did not happen to meet with it. 

 Forster says it may be called a solstitial plant, but " flowers all sum- 

 mer, from May to August." 



Corn poppy {Papaver Rhceas) in flower. A true solstitial sign. 

 "Flowers about St. Barnabas (June 11)," says Forster, " and by mid- 

 summer quite reddens the corn-fields, in some soils." The poppy has 

 been always singularly connected with corn, and perhaps Virgil's ex- 

 pression, " rubicunda Ceres," in the 1st Georgic, may allude to this. 

 At all events, Ceres is often very much reddened with the interloping 

 poppy ever clinging to her robe. 



Lapsana communis in flower. July and August according to Hook- 

 er and Babington. Steele rightly says June and July. Rubus cordi- 

 folius in flower, and R. suberectus most beautifully so. Many oak- 

 trees almost bare from the attacks of an overwhelming army of cater- 

 pillars ; I believe that of the little green Tortrix viridana. 



June 5. — Potentilla reptans and Genista tinctoria in flower. The 

 latter belongs to July and August according to the Floras. 



June 6. — Sedum acre in flower. A sure solstitial sign when roofs 

 glow with the expanded golden petals of this plant. Hay-making has 

 commenced. 



June 9. — Barnaby bright of the old style. " It is now the begin- 

 ning of the solstitial season," says Forster, " and consequently marked 

 by many distinguishing phenomena. The various poppies, the roses, 

 the pinks, and other solstitial plants, begin to flower plentifully." 



Rosa arvensis in flower. This trailing rose, distinguished by its 

 peculiar and less grateful odour, blossoms later than any of our other 

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