FLOWERING SEASON AND CLIMATE. 



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With regard to the orders just mentioned (Liliacefe, Diosooreucese, 

 etc.), it seems to be an exaggeration to say that they behave like woody 

 plants as to the special point of their flowering season. 



It is true, many of them are found flowering during the hot season, 

 but still more during the rainy part of the year. Resides, the number 

 of flowering times, as above given, shows that herbs belonging to other 

 orders flower in the same way during the first half of the year. 1 

 add a table of the flowering periods of some orders which all are 

 possessed of tubers, bulbs or rhizomes. 



This table is, of course, not decisive, as just of these orders the data 

 available are very incomplete. It is, however, striking that we find so 

 great a number of flowers just during tne hottest month of May ; after 

 a dry and warm season. Continued observations must be made before 

 we can arrive at satisfactory results. 



Highly interesting it would be to trace the relations which oxisl 

 between the climatic factors and the flowering season of plants belong 

 ins to different orders. The following table contains the flowering 

 periods of the herbaceous plants of some orders : — 



