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known solstitial flowers, generally keeping pretty true to Midsummer, 

 but certainly earlier this year. The Floras all indicate July, and yet, 

 as Mr. Forster truly observes, " coming into flower about St. John the 

 Baptist's-day (June 94), they have thence derived the name of St. 

 John's-wort." 



Crepis virens in flower. The fairy-ring agaric appeared this day as 

 the first fruit of the recent showers, and perhaps indicative of others 

 to come. Storms of rain indeed followed till 



June 15. — Geranium pratense in flower. Mr. Forster and the 

 Floras all agree here. 



June 19. — Ballota nigra in full flower. The Floras not to time 

 again, and Mr. Forster himself behind. The meadow-sweet (Spiraa 

 Ulmaria) has commenced flowering. Forster and Babington agree as 

 to this beginning flowering in June, but Hooker and Steele give the 

 later period of July. 



June 20. — Galium Mollugo and palustre in flower, the latter fully 

 so. The common name Mi*. Forster says should be " our " Lady's 

 Bedstraw, as the Virgin Mary was originally intended. Forster and 

 all the Floras say July for both species. 



Many of the composite plants are now in bloom, and among them 

 in woody places appear Hieracium murorum and Lactuca muralis. 

 The latter would seem to be in advance, as the Floras intimate July 

 for it, yet Forster with more exactness says it begins to show early in 

 June. Lapsana communis is also in full flower, leaving the Floras a 

 month in the rear, but Forster again exhibits his accuracy of remark 

 by indicating the middle of June. Pyrethrum Parthenium and 

 inodorum are also before the time stated in the Floras. 



Corncockle (Lgchis Githago) in full flower. The Floras agree as 

 to June, but the 28th is the day given by Forster, who, placing it by 

 the side of the pretty but rarer Centaurea Cyanus, says they only be- 

 come common in July. 



Hypericum pulchrum expanded this day. 



Convolvulus sepium exhibits its large white bells upon the lofty 

 bushes close to Shrawley Wood. Certainly much earlier than usual, 

 and the Floras are right in giving July as the general month. Mr. 

 Forster, too, remarks that the great bellbinder belongs to the asstival 

 or late summer Flora, and flowers from July 2 to the end of Septem- 

 ber. 



Deptford pink (Dianthus Armeria) in flower. The Floras say July, 

 but I agree with Mr. Forster that it always begins to flower in June. 



I also noticed Reseda luteola, Polygonum amphibium, and Scro- 



