58 Some LocaL PLANTS. 
other non-poisonous umbelliferous plants by its finely divided 
leaves, slender growth, and perfectly smooth stem, spotted 
with red. It is a biennial, and flowers in June and July. 
Weather and Other Notes taken at Jardington 
during 1915. 
By Mr J. RUTHERFORD. 
JANUARY. 
New-Year’s Day came in with a nice mild morning and 
a rather cold south-east wind. The distant hills were white. 
A very red and purple sky preceded sunrise. The barometer 
fell very sharply from 29.5 in. on the previous day to 28.9 in. 
at g a.m. A cold, dull, cheerless, stormy day followed. At . 
8 p.m. the barometer stood at 28.6 in., which was the lowest 
reading of the year. On the 2nd there was thunder, with 
hail showers. Broken, mild, showery weather, mixed up 
with some frost at night, continued till the zoth, when 
Queensberry and the distant hills had a covering of snow. 
No rain fell from this date till the last day of the month. 
During this time there was a continued mild frost; most of 
the mornings were rather foggy and there was white frost on 
the grass. There were sleet and snow showers on ihe 
31st. This left a trace of snow here, but higher lands had a 
fair covering. The wind for the month was principally from 
the north, north-west, and south-west, except on four days, 
when it was from the south-east. 
The temperature of the month was about normal when 
compared with the preceding months of January during the 
present series of mild winters that we have recently had. 
There were no heavy gales of wind and no heavy floods. 
Snowdrop came into bloom on the 19th, two days later than 
IQI4. 
FEBRUARY. 
The last day of January left the higher lands and distant 
hills covered with snow. The southerly morning sky of the 
Ist was a peculiar yellowish purple colour, which I have fre- 
