4VG CALENDAR, 1820. 



January 14, descended so low as ten degrees below zero ; 

 and at midnight I saw another Thermometer so low as five 

 degrees below zero. I forbear speculating on the cause of 

 this circumstance ; but the comparatively late state of the 

 vegetation here, and the destruction produced in the plants, 

 corroborate the fact, without explaining its cause. 

 13th. Pyrethrum inodorum has one flower already. 

 14th. Geranium mode and G. Robertianum now com- 

 mon. Myositus scorpioides is also in blow, and the common 

 Tormentilla, the Potentilla, Wild Mustard, Charlock, and 

 others. 



16th. Hieracium Pilosella in flower on a warm bank, but 

 it is not generally in blow yet. 



19th. * Hieracium murorum in flower under a steep bunk 

 between Cow den and the high road. 



20th. Sinapis arvensis begins to abound. 

 21st. Hypochaeris radicata in flower. This fine warm 

 weather has in two days produced more flowers than, in the 

 last preceding week, the Rain did. The Iris lurida is in 

 flower in the garden. Nearly all the Ranunculi and Potcn- 

 tillae are in blow in the fields ; and the rapid growth of the 

 midsummer flowering plants is prodigious. The meadows 

 have now assumed their rich yellow bespangled appearance ; 

 while in other places they are beautifully blue with the 

 flowers of the Harebell Scilla nutans ; but still some few 

 fields are almost flowerless, Ranunculus repens not being out 

 yet. 



24th. NATALIS LINNAEI. Tragopogon pratcnsis in 

 flower at Hartfield. The weather extremely hot. 



* I know not to what species to refer the Hieracium. alluded to. I 

 believe it to be u new one. 



