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common on our clay here, may have been out in blow some days 

 without my noticing them, such as the Scabiosa arccnsis, S. 

 snccisa, Centaurea nigra, C. cyanus, Chrysanthemum segetum, 

 Anthemis nobilis, and many others. 



Walking by night on the high hills of the South Down, I 

 noticed the most beautiful display of the Cirrocumulus, dis- 

 posed like fine windrows of hay in lofty beds floating gently 

 along in a serene welkin over the calm sea by moonlight. 



28th. Campanula Trackelium still in blow. The White 

 Hedge Bindweed Convolvulus sepium begins to be common, 

 and to hang its white bells about every hedge. The small 

 species C. arvensis is also common. I found to-day that Red 

 Poppies were common all the way from Brighton to Chailey, 

 where they became rare, and at length disappeared. 



30th. Lobelia urens in flower in the garden. Fungi begin 

 to appear. The Nasturtiums Tropaelomn majns now make a 

 splendid figure, but begin to fade away. 



31st. Campanula rotundifolia in flower. 



Being in Hampshire in August, the regularity of the 

 Calendar was omitted. 



SEP. 1st. This month set in with fair weather, a steady 

 Barometer, and clear nights, with stratus. 



2d. Falling Stars observed to-night. The Moorhen Fulica 

 chlorossus noticed in the ponds. 



4th. A Falling Star was described to me by a person this 

 evening as descending and running along the ground : it \A r as 

 probably an Ignis fatuus. 



7th. During the Eclipse the Thermometer fell from ninety 

 three degrees (in the Sun) to seventy degrees. 



18th. I found Agaricnx muscarlus, a beautiful crimson 

 Fimgus with white spots, in abundance, growing on the grass 

 in Stoneland Park, flofate* edtdis is also common. 



19th. The Autumnal Crocus, or Saffron, in blow. 



