202 A YEAR S WEATHER. 



September... 3-49-ms 2-63-ins 303-ins. 



October 4-81-ins 3-02-ins 8-55-ins. 



November... 4-37-ins 4'35-ms 5'03-ins. 



Total ... 36-87-ins 40-03-ins 39.83-ins. 



The mean of the maxima — greatest heat in shade in day-time 

 — was 51*7 ; of the minima — greatest cold under cover at night 

 — 39-3 degrees ; we had frost on six nights ; an exposed thermo- 

 meter registered 12 degrees of frost on the 25th, and there was 

 hoar frost on the same date ; we had mist on three days ; on the 

 22nd a slight, and on the 30th a heavy, fog. How little this was 

 in comparison with other places I have had several opportunities 

 of learning. 



There is one aspect of the month, I think, rightly follows 

 the above paragraph — the floral aspect. Mr. Davey says on the 

 24th of November, in a walk through Kennal Vale, he saw 44 

 plants in bloom ; in a short walk near Truro, and not in the most 

 sheltered situation, I saw, at the very end of the month, nearly 

 40 flowers in bloom. They were surrounded in many cases with 

 spring-like grass, so favourable had the weather apparently been. 

 Some of the peltate or shield-like leaves of the common penny- 

 wort were two and a half inches across. Three kinds of coloured 

 flowers were common ; I trust to be forgiven for calling white a 

 colour, but it expresses here a distinction. White starworts, 

 pepperworts, wild strawberries, and others ; yellow dandelions, 

 potentillas, hawkweeds, etc., and blue and purple blossoms. 

 Now the latter colours are the highest and brightest attractions 

 plants can offer to their insect friends, and hence a ramble which 

 presented red deadnettle, red campion, heather, dove's-foot ger- 

 anium, herb-Eobert, sheep's bit, knapweed, ivy -leaved toadflax, 

 and blue veronica, seemed a time of sunshine and heat rather 

 than, as the calendar says, November, fog common. 



A peep backwards; November, 1791, 100 years ago. 2nd 

 — Many flocks of thrushes seen. 6th — Frost powerful. A great 

 many hips and haws. Daisies, and many flowers in bloom. 

 The season mild in general until end of month, when stormy. 

 Fall of rain, 4-2-inches. 



December 14th, 1891. 



