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VII. — A Calendar of Natural Periodic Phenomena : kept at Bodmin, 

 for the year 1869. — By Thomas Q. Couch. 



" II semble, en effet, que les phenomenes periodiques forment, pour les 

 etres organises, en dehors de la vie individuelle, une vie commune dont on 

 ne peut saisir les phases qu'en I'etudiant simultanement sur toute la terre." 

 ^Quetelet. 



N.B. — The names printed in Italics indicate plants and animals 

 marked for special observation. 



fl. means flowers ; fol., foliates ; defoL, defoliates. 



The time of flowering is to be noted when the flower is suffi- 

 ciently expanded to show the anthers ; of foliation, when the leaf- 

 bud is so far open as to show the upper surface of the leaves ; of 

 fructification, at the period of dehiscence of the pericarp, in de- 

 hiscent fruits ; and, in others, when they have evidently arrived 

 at maturity ; of defoliation, when the greater part of the leaves 

 of the year have fallen ofi". 



January 2. Hazel (Corylus avellana), fl,. 



— Potentilla fragariastrum, fl. 



4. Wild Primrose (Primula vulgaris), fl. 



5. The Little Bat (Vespertilio pipistrellus), active. 

 12. Cardamine hirsuta, fl. 



14. Elder (Samhucus nigra), fol. This and other natural 

 appearances of unusual precocity, such as the 

 full flowering of the Garden Strawberry, show the 

 unusual mildness and forwardness of the season, 



26. Pilewort (Eammculus ficariaj, fl. 



— Frog (Rana temporaria), spawns. 



27. Daphne mezereum, fl. 



28. Sulphur Butterfly (Gonopteryx rhamni), seen. 



