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April 1. Tussilago Farfara in full fl. Primula veris in fl. 



April 20. Saxifraga granulata in fl. 



May 1. Potentilla Fragariastrum, Oxalis Acetosella and Glecho- 

 ma hederacea about full fl. 



May 2. Primus spinosa, Veronica chamapdrys and Fragaria vesca 

 in fl. 



May 3. Potentilla verna* and Geum urbanum in fl. 



May 4. Primula veris and Viola hirta in full fl. 



May 6. Doronicum Pardalianches in fl. Caltha palustris in 

 full fl. 



May 9. Geum rivale and Galium cruciatum in fl. 



May 14. Anthoxanthum odoratum in fl. 



May 15. Luzula sylvatica in fl. 



May 21. Viola lutea in fl. (Perhaps it should be earlier). 



Rosa canina generally appears in flower about the second week of 

 June or earlier. It was the 17th of June before /observed it this 

 season, but it had probably been in flower a week before that time. 



I will not proceed further with my notes, as by the end of May my 

 journal generally declines much every year, partly from the circum- 

 stance of the busy collecting season then beginning, and partly from 

 the Jirst appearance of many plants not being so easily noticed in 

 consequence of the luxuriance of surrounding vegetation. In the 

 above notes it will be understood that the first flowering is meant in 

 all cases where the fact is not stated to be otherwise. 



George Lawson. 

 Dundee, August 12, 1848. 



On the Occurrence of Tulipa sylvestris in Fifeshire. 

 By George Lawson, Esq. 



I beg to record the occurrence of Tulipa sylvestris in several large 

 patches under trees near to the ruins of Pitcullo Castle in the county 

 of Fife, where I first observed it in the spring of 1847. It does not 

 seem to produce flowers at that place (as I believe is often the case 

 with this plant in other situations), and at the time I first found it I 

 was not altogether certain that it really was the Tulipa, being told by 

 a person living near the place that the plant " produced blue flowers 



* Probably the Potentilla verna generally flowers earlier in this district than the 

 date under which I have given it, but I possess no evidence to show that fact. 



