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25th. Tragopogon porrifolium in flower. In the gardens 

 about London the Lilium bulbiferum is already in blow. 

 Papaver orientate is in flower at Clapton and elsewhere. 

 Hypochaeris radicata begins to abound. 



26th. Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum in flower. I also 

 saw the Papaver nudicaule in blow in abundance in a garden 

 in Penshurst parish.* 



29th. Sonchus oleraceus, Lychnis Flos Cuculi, Saxifraga 

 granulata, Hemerocallis flava the Yellow Day Lily, and 

 Linum perenne in flower. 



30th. Aquilegia vulgaris in flower. This plant is found 

 apparently wild hereabouts, though I have never yet found 

 it greatly remote from the houses. 



31st. The different varieties of Azalea are in beautiful 

 bloom. The weather is still very showery, and the tempera- 

 ture low for the time of year. The rising of the Barometer 

 is unattended now by fair weather ; and the showers fall so 

 rapidly, that one can scarce get away from them. The 

 FLORA is very backward here. The meadows are hardly 

 yellowed with Crowfoot in some places yet, particularly where 

 the R. Repens grows. Some garden flowers, however, have 

 been early this year, as Tulips and Crown Imperials. 



JUNE 1st. This month has set in with showery weather, 

 which has continued for a long time past, while the tempera- 

 ture remains low, and the Wind South and Westerly. There 

 is nearly twenty degrees of difference between the maximum 

 heat of this and of last first of June. The VERNAL FLORA 

 is passing away, while the SOLSTITIAL is backward in the 



* This is the Papaver erraticum nudicaule of Dillenius, in llort. 

 Kltham. It is about the size of P. Cambricum, but the flower is of a paler 

 yellow, and approaches more to sulphur colour. 



