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The distinction between y e Scirpi, & the Junci. 



Scirpus, a bull-rush : this kind of plant bears stamineous 

 flowers, & naked seeds gathered into a squamose Head ; 

 each scale holding a flatish triangular seed ; the stalk is 

 without any knots, round, & has a spongy pith. 



Juncus, a rush, differs from y e bull-rush in having an 

 hexapetalous Calix, & as many stamina as y e Calix has 

 leaves ; & many seeds contained in a seed-vessel. 



Nov r ' 25. Discovered the Joy-leaved speed well, or 

 small Henbit (veronica flosculis singularibus, hederulae 

 folio, Morsus Gallinae minor dicta) plenty in every garden 

 & field. 



Discovered on a bank at Faringdon Filex elegans, 

 Adianto nigro accedens, segmentis rotundioribus ; a beauti- 

 ful fern about six inches high : Pilewort, or y e less Celan- 

 dine (Chelidonium minus) in it's first leaves ; it blows in 

 March, & April : The greater Celandine in it's first leaves 

 (Chelidonium majus vulgare) & chervil in it's first leaves 

 (Cicutaria vulgaris ; sive Myrrhis sylvestris seminibus 

 loevibus) called also wild Cicely, & cow-weed. 



Detf- 6. Finish'd tacking, & trimming my fruit-wall 

 trees : the peaches, & Nect : lie well to the wall, but seem 

 not to be well-ripened in their wood this Year. The vines, 

 (which were contracted to make room for y e Peach : & 

 nectarines) have large well-ripened shoots. 



12. Found in a stubble in bloom, & pod the oval-leaved 

 Turritis (Turritis foliis ovatis). 



The flowers now in bloom are Yarrow, Turritis, spurrey, 

 butter-cups, viola bicolor, dandelion, dead nettle, hedge D- 



Put a finishing hand to my new stable by making my 

 saddle cup-board, shelves, &c. 



Discovered in shrub : wood l Rough spleen-wort. (Con- 

 chitis aspera) it is known from poly pody by the tapering 

 leaves reaching down to y e bottom of y e stem. 



14. An hard frost. 



31. A severe frost with an harsh E. wind, & cloudy 



1 Shrub Wood, a copse near by. [H. M.] 



