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around, bespeaking the approach of winter. A few composite plants 

 remain in bloom, especially Senecio Jacobsea (Hooker, "July, Aug." 

 Babington, "7 to 9") and Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (Hooker, 

 "June, July." Babington, " 6 to 8"). On a piece of elevated, stony 

 ground near a plantation, saw four plants of Viola canina in fi., with 

 one capsule nearly ripe. How untimely, I thought, was their appear- 

 ance. What was the cause ? Were they lingerers in the train of 

 Summer — mourners over its faded splendours ? Or were they to be 

 regarded as pioneers in advance of the distant spring — as harbingers 

 of brighter days to come ? 



November 26. Weather mild. Found in fl. in comparatively shel- 

 tered lanes, but near the sea-coast, Jasione montana, Achillaea Mille- 

 folium, Senecio Jacobaea, Crepis virens, Ranunculus acris, Geranium 

 Robertianum, Betonica officinalis, Linaria Cymbalaria (this on garden 

 walls), and Erythrsea Centaurium. I will not unnecessarily encumber 

 your pages by quoting the range of flowering-season given in books 

 to the plants just named. Such of your readers as may feel interested 

 in the subject will refer for themselves. Suffice it to say, that they 

 should (according to the writers) have long since fallen asleep. 



Christmas Day. Weather moist and mild. Geranium Robertia- 

 num and Lychnis dioica, as well as Crepis virens, still in bloom, at 

 Maker, Cornwall. Iris fcetidissima had not yet discharged all its 

 bright red seeds. They were showing conspicuously in the large 

 spreading seed-vessels. Furze in fl. In the garden of a friend at 

 this place, primroses, " that come before their time," were daring to 

 unfold their petals ; and the large periwinkle was fully open. In the 

 fields, daisies, richly crimson-tipped, were boldly parading themselves. 

 I have remarked that the crimson tinge of the outer florets of the 

 daisy is more deep and exquisite in winter than in summer. 



The season mild and wet to the end of the year. Vale, Vale, 

 1848! Isaiah W. N. Keys. 



Plymouth, February 16, 1849. 



Notice of ' Flora Her tfordien sis : or a Catalogue of Plants found 

 in the County of Hertford, with the Stations of the rarer 

 Species: Part IV. By the Rev. R. H. Webb, M.A., and the 

 Rev. W. H. Coleman, M.A. 



We gave a notice of the above-named work, on publication of Part 

 First, last summer (Phytol. iii. 184). Its appearance was then greeted 

 with much satisfaction, as that of a really valuable addition to our lo- 



