ExTEA Obseevations, 1845. 



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DATES OF FLOWERING AND LEAFING OF PLANTS, &c. 



1845. 



el.. 22 



:arch 21- 

 23 



Cl- 



ows coming 



23 

 23 

 31 



pril 1 

 1 

 2 

 3 

 5 

 5 

 5 

 6, 

 6, 

 6 

 6 

 19 



21, 



27, 

 27. 



Primula acaulis in flower. 



to their nests. 

 -23. Ranunculus Ficaria, in flower. 

 Corylus Avellana, with catkins 2 inches 



long fully open, probably open a week 



or more ago. 

 A bat seen. 



Ribes Grossularia, leaves open. 

 . Humble bees, tortoise-shell butterfly and 



toads seen. 

 . Fragaria vesca in flower. 

 ? Viola canina in flower. 

 Tussilago Farfara in flower. 

 Petasites vulgaris in flower, 

 -^sculus Hippocastanum in leaf. 

 Ulmus montana in leaf. 

 Alnus glutinosa in flower some days. 

 Larix Europaea in leaf. 

 Corylus Avellana in leaf. 

 Mercurialis perennis in flower. 

 Pulmonaria officinalis in flower. 

 Erodium cicutarium in flower ; must have 



flowered by the 12th. 

 Cerasus Padus in leaf. 

 Lamium album in flower. 

 Prunus spinosa in flower. 



1845. 

 April 27. Fagus sylvatica in leaf for 3 days ? 

 27. Agraphis nutans in flower. 

 27. Pyrus aucuparia in leaf about 7 days. 

 27. Glechoma hederacea in flower about 3 days. 

 27. Myosotis (arvensis 1) in flower about 2 days. 

 27. Tilia EuropcBa in leaf. 

 27. Erysimum Alliaria in flower. 



29. Caltha palustris in flower. 



30. The cuckoo heard for the first time. 

 May 3. Fraxinus excelsior (young tree) in leaf 



about 3 days. 

 3. Pyrus Malus, in flower about 2 days. 

 9. .Slsculus Hippocastanum in flower. 

 12. Quercus Robur in leaf. 

 April 1. Swallows seen at Kelso. Thrush nest 

 nearly finished. 

 Three swallows seen (Hirundo rustica). 

 Swifts seen (Cypselus apus). 

 Young Redbreasts seen. 

 5^. Swallows seen in considerable numbers 



for the last time this year. 

 Fraxinus excelsior, leaves off" one tree. 

 Fraxinus excelsior, Fagus sylvatica, and 

 Platanus occidentalis, have lost the greater 

 part of their leaves. 

 Nov. 8 7^- Two bats seen. 



May 

 Oct. 



5. 



13, 



4. 



4 



13. 



20. 



?eb. 



d. 



13 



h. 

 1. 



P.M. (Mak. M. T.). Temperature of the interior of a large ash-tree, 31°'8 ; the temperature of 

 the air in the shade being 44°-0. At 4*^ the temperature of the ash-tree was 31°*9 ; when 

 the temperature of the air was 45°-0. The bulb of the thermometer was inserted about 

 5 inches into the tree, and the aperture closed, leaving the stem of the thermometer outside 

 the tree, 

 h. 



4. P.M. (Mak. M. T.) Temperature of the ash-tree, 32°-7, of the air, 

 4. 32°-4, 



