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vules very thin, parallel, equal, forking, &c. The genus Aphle 
bia Sternb., is from its character still less adapted for our plants, 
filiform, ascending. Moreover, both these genera characte 
(To be continued.) 
ArT. XXI.— Abstract of a Meteorological Journal, kept at Marietta, 
Ohio: lat. 39° 25’ N., and long. 4° 28’ W. from Washington 
City, for the year 1861; by S. P. Hitprers, M.D.—[Thuty 
fifth annual Report.] 
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THERMOMETER. | EB RAIN. se 
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MONTHS é |£i¢8|s Bla % WINDS. & a ¢ 
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HF iziaielsifea = a 
January, 32°33| 51| 10! 19] 191 9-704) wx.dss. (29°75/2884 
February, : 8°20; 69 2) 12) 16) 2-316) s,s.w. & B. [29°75 25°80 | 
arch, ; . (3°00) 75 15] 1¥\ 19) 2- s.,8.w. d& n. |29°78/28'95 P 
April, . 2°70! 82 80) 14| 14] 6-372'N., n.w., s. & E24 60/2896 7 
a> 6°39) 86 28 5) 6| 5-619) n., N.e. & 8. |29°65)28 lo 
June, . é 0°25) 92 44) 16! 14) 3-961/ s,s.w. & N. |29°68 2019 
dalye. cco 38°17} 90 48) 16) 15] 5-146) s,a.w. & N. -60)20 20 : 
cs 1-00| 94 50) 18] 13| 3031| s, sw. & x |29 ine 
September, 6°00 89 36) 18° 12) 4312 58.2, & x. 784/28 96| 4 
ober, 14-20) 79 28| 5) 16 4-433) s, s.w. & x. [2980/2895 | 
November, . :1°33) 71 25) 14) 16) 4-631) n., now. & w, |29°64 poe 4 
December, 00) 69 12 21) 10) 1-618) s,s.w. & x, |30-00)2910) * 
Mean forthe year, 51°71, | 185 180'46°441) 
The mean temperature for the year is 51°-71, being not id 
from the average of a series of yes 
. eon 2 - d con: 
e amount of rain and melted snow is 46-441 inches an 
siderably above the mean for this locality. ; «33°55, 
_, Winter months.—The mean temperature for the winter 18 aie 
It was a very mild winter—the mercury being at no time at 2) 
though very near that point. The Ohio river was not a 
as to prevent navigation, but contained at times co : 
floating ice, lasting only a few days. There was but litle 
