236 The Botanical Gazette. [August, 
grans, December to March; two species of Erica commence 
flowering in January. From fall to spring: Arbutus Unedo, 
October to February; Passerina hirsuta, October to April. 
North of France flowering rarely begins sufficiently early to 
merit consideration in this connection. 
The various short lists just mentioned indicate very wella 
sort of tendency which certain spring flowering plants have of 
- flowering more and more early, so that in the case of certain 
species the flowering season begins early in the winter, and 
with others, already inthe fall. The fall flowering species of 
this series differ widely from the cases of accidental, or more 
or less regular and repeated reappearance of flowers in the 
fall which was noted in the case of many plants at the begin- 
ning of this paper. 
I. Fall flowering with the second series is nota case of 
the reappearance of flowers for the second time during the 
Same year. 2. A// of the species of this series ripen their 
fruit, although quite frequently not before the following 
spring. 3. all-flowering with them may be regarded as@ 
matter of more or less gradual development, as the tendency 
to blossom early, carried almost to excess, and not, as in the 
case of the plants first discussed, a sort of sport of nature, 
which has assumed a more or less fixed habit with certaim 
species. 
in the fall in Italy, Sardinia and Corsica; the species printe 
Higes ae 
Taraxacum gymnanthum, Erica multiflora, Cyclamen Europeum, pein 
num, C. Poli, aphne Gnidium, Triglochin laxiflorum, Posidonia Cau Leuco- 
cies of Crocus, Narcissus serotinus, Sverndergia lutea, St. colchiciflors, ¢. 
jum autumnale, Scilla intermedia, Colchicum autumnale, C. ae i 
alpinum, Arum pictum, Biarum tenuifolium, and Botryanthus parv! ring! ig 
In addition to the above species in Italics, the following spectes hye in 
Spain, are also found in southern France, with the same habit of Tbocodias 
the fall: Viola arborescens, Androsace pyrenaica, Merendera Bu 
and Crocus nudiflorus E i 
