l62 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 



A FEW NOTES RE THE SEASON OF 1891. 



Read before the Biological Section. 



BY D. F. H. WILKINS, B. A., BAG. APP. SGI. 

 Headmaster High School, Beamsville. 



The season opened early, after a short mild winter. 



Crows were first seen February 6th. 



Sugar making was begun March 4th. 



A robin (not a resident) was seen March loth. 



Frogs first heard March 23rd. 



Growth commenced March 28th. 



Bulbs of Adder-Tongue Lily sprouting, and Scarlet-Cap Lichen 

 abundant, at this date. 



Hepatica and Spring Beauty in flower April 2nd. 



Adder-Tongue Lily in flower April 4th. 



Blood Root in flower April 6th. 



Red Maple in flower April 12th. 



Marsh Marigold in flower April 12th. 



Dicentra cucullaria, also D. Canadensis, in flower April 15th. 



True Anemone in flower April 16th. 



Cuckoo Flower, Skunk's Cabbage and Cursed Crowfoot in 

 flower April 15th. 



Red and White Trilliums in flower April 20th. 



Sugar Maple in flower April 24th. 



Hooded Violet, Beaked Violet, Yellow Violet and Sweet Violet, 

 White Birch and Water Elm, in flower April 24th. 



Indian Turnip in fiower May 4th. 



First Golden Rod (Solidago Canadensis) in flower July 20th. 



First Aster (Aster Icevis) in flower July 20th. 



Sugar Maples beginning to turn in color September 22nd. 



Red Maples beginning to turn September 25th. 



Maples in full flush October loth. 



White Oaks turning, also Red Oaks and Scarlet Oaks com- 

 mencing, October loth. 



