r June 16, 1882.] 



• KNOWLEDGE 



41 



WEATHER CHARTS FOR WEEK ENDING SUNDAY, JUNE 11. 



Sunday, 4th. 



Monday, oth. 



Tuesday, Cth 



Wkdnesday, 7th. 





Thursday, Sth. 



Friday, 9th. 



Saturday, IOth. 



Sunday, 11th. 



In the above charts Iho dotted lines are "isobars," or linos of equal barometrical pressure, the vahies which they indicate being- 

 given in figures at the end, thus- — 30-1. The shade temperature is given in tignres for several places on the coast, and the weather is 



recorded in words. The arrows fly with the wind, the force of which is shown by the number of barbs and feathers, thus : — ^ , 



light ; > , fresh or strong j ■ > > , a gale ; » > , a violent gale ; signifies calm. The state of the sea is noted in capital 



letters. The • denotes the various stations. The hour for which each chart is di-awu is 6 p.m. 



water, in which much suf;ar ha-s been dissolved. Afterwards 

 ■whites of eggs dissolved in water, six to the half-pint, 

 shojld bo freely administered. Milk or wheat Hour may 

 be put in the water if tliere are no eggs in the house. 

 Sugar may be added to whatever draughts are thus taken, 

 and everything acid, especially vinegar, is to be avoided. 

 The time between sending for a doctor (wliich should be 

 done at once) and awaiting his arrival, can hardly be better 

 employed than in following the above instructions. 



JUNE FLOWERS. 

 Bt Grant Allen. 



JUKE is the botanist's despair: there are so many beautiful 

 plants in blossom, that he can never hope to examine them all 

 at once. The only possible plan for liim is to specinliso himself, 

 and take a few families at a time each year. The pea flowers are 

 a good group to study in Junoj they are recognisable at once by 



their peculiar blossoms, which even the unlearned know at sight 

 and they are full of varied interest from every jioint of view- 

 Among smaller herbs of this class, the simplest division is into 

 those with trefoil foliage, like the clovers, and those with leaves of 

 various other types. The medicks (Mrdicajo) belong to the tirst- 

 named group. The only common kinds in England have emali 

 yellow flowers, and all may readily bo known by tlieir curved spiral 

 pods. M. lupulina, nonsuch, has but ono twist to the pml, and a 

 single seed ; it grows abundantly in meadows. In .V. macutala tho 

 pod has three or four tight whorls, and becomes almost globular as 

 it ripens ; its edge is furrowed, anil lined with close pricklt>s. il. 

 denliftilata is a rarer plant, found chiefly in tbe eastern ctmnties and 

 on the south coast ; its \tmi has also prickles, but is not furrowed, 

 and the whorls aro loose, like a corkscrtjw, instead of being tightly 

 curled together, like a snail, ^fc^ilotu^ has also trefoil leaves, pecu- 

 liarly thick and jointed at the point of union ; its long and hand- 

 some liioso bunch of bright yellow flowers at once distinguiahcs it 

 from tho clovers, while its small straight [mxI .separates it immediately 

 from tho medicks. Only ono species is likely to be found by 

 beginners, and that is M. ojffieinali.i, with a net-veined pod. 

 J/. Arvcngi», almost confined to eastern Kngland, has tho jxxl simply 

 wrinkled, while tho rare U. alba may bo clearly known by ila white 



