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The Martin Hirundo urbica first seen, by me, to-day. This 

 evening the abundance of Cirrocumulus and Wanecloud 

 indicates Rain. The weather is very cold. 



4th. Geranium molle in flower. 



6th. I saw Trout, Perch, Bleak, and Roach, caught to-day 

 in the stream. The day was cloudy and cold, with South 

 Wind, followed by Rain and Gales at night. 



9th. As I returned from London, I observed all the way 

 along that the Ranunculus bulbosus was become common, and 

 spangled the meadows and fields with its rich yellow. 



Hesperis inodora, Iris Germanica, and Tullpa Gesneriana, 

 in bloom in the gardens. I saw here and there a very fine 

 blow of Tulips about London. Near Edenbridge I observed 

 the Yellow Asphodel Asphodelus luteus just coming into 

 flower. The weather is warmer after the showers of last 

 night. At Clapton, Narcissus biflorus, N. poeticus, and N. 

 angustifolius, in blow. 



10th. Papaver Cambricum and Peonia tenuifolia in flower 

 at Withyham, in a garden, where I also saw to-day the vernal 

 bastard flower of the Colchicum Autumnale, which is a curious 

 phaenomenon. 



llth. Dentaria bulbifera flowering at Withyham. 



12th. Scandix odorata in flower in a garden. The bulbous 

 Crowfoot is abundant in the fields near Tunbridge Wells, 

 and about London, and other places. The neighbourhood of 

 Hartfield, however, is peculiarly destitute of this and other 

 vernal flowers, the fields here looking quite like winter. This 

 backwardness of the FLORA should be viewed in conjunction 

 with the peculiarly great degree of cold which happened here 

 almost locally in January last ; the Thermometer here being 

 many degrees lower than it appears to have been in any 

 other part of the island. My Thermometer, on the night of 



