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hortorum is now common in the gardens; as are Auriculas, 

 Sweetwilliams, Marigolds, Garden Mallows, and other summer 

 flowers. 



20th. Fine warm weather has at length succeeded the 

 cool. The hay is down, and in some places stacked. The 

 Yellow Lily is in full flower; as are likewise the Pike 

 Geranium, the White and also the Blue Flaxinella, and 

 numerous Roses. The Peony is already casting its petals to 

 decay. A variety of Centaurea cyanus, almost white, is 

 common here. 



Malva sylvestrls in flower. The Stone Curlew heard by 

 night. The Charlock, or Yellow Cornweed, of Hampshire, 

 seems to be all Sin apis arvensls. In some places the fields are 

 quite yellow with it ; in others the Corn Poppy gives them 

 the distant look of a scarlet sheet thrown over the meadows. 

 Verbascum Thapsus coming into bloom. 

 23d. I gathered the seeds, of Tragopogon pratensis near 

 Odiham. Crepis tectorum abundant. 



24th. Showery weather again, and a clouded Sky, which 

 retards the progress of the SOLSTITIAL FLOKA. The Pike 

 Geranium G. sanguineum in full blow. 



26th. Lychnis Chalcedonica the Scarlet Lightning in 

 flower. The Canterbury Bells Campanula Medium in full blow 

 in the garden. The Poppies in my garden are late this year ; 

 being sown in spring, instead of last autumn. 



27th. Carduus palustris C. arvensis and C. acanthoides, 

 in flower. Papaver hortorum flowering against the wall of 

 the porch. I noticed this evening, among the high wheat, 

 abundance of the Corn Chamomile Anthemis cotula in 

 flower. 



28th. Showery weather, and a great deal of hay beat 

 down. I found this morning, among an abundance of the 



