OBSERVATIONS. 



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Gnaphalium. Linn. Cudweed. 

 G, sylvaticum^ L. Highland Cudweed. P. July — September. Heath. 

 G, ulijinosum, L. Marsh Cudweed. A. July — rSeptemher. Common. 



FiLAGo. Linn. Tilago. 

 F. minima, Pers. Least Mlago. A, June — September. Heath. 

 F. germanica, L. Common Filago. A. July — September. Common. 



Petasites. Desf. Butter-bur. 

 P. vulgaris, Desf. Common Butter-bur. P. March — April. Common. 

 In some places flower stems five feet high, and leaves two feet wide. 

 TussiLAGO. Linn. Colt's-foot. 

 T. Farfara, L. Colt's-foot. P. February — April. Common. 



Erigeron. Linn. Flea-bane. 

 E. acris, L. Blue Flea- bane. B. July — August. Garforth, Wentbridge, 

 Knottingley. 



SoLiDAGO. Linn. Golden-rod. 

 ;S^. Virgaurea, L. Common Golden-rod. P. July — September. Common, 



Senecio. Linn. Groundsel, &c. 

 S. vulgaris, L. Common Groundsel. A. All the year round. Common. 

 S. sylvaticus, L. Mountain Groundsel. A. July — September. Heath, 

 Ossett, Ardsley, &c. 



The Inverness Courier reports : "that the 

 Earl of Cawdor recently shot a very curi- 

 ously coloured grouse and sent it to Mr, 

 Macleay, bird stuff er, Inverness, to he 

 preserved. It is of a uniform pale ash 

 colour nearly white, was in fine healthy 

 condition. Another grouse was also sent 

 to Mr. Macleay, the prevailing colour of 

 which is a faded yellow, a few of the fea- 

 thers being a light brown, the wings and 

 tail ash coloured. " 



London Plants, Wimhledon Common ; — 

 See Naturalist, ii. 113. My friend Mr. 

 Gamble informs me that he found Drosera 



rotimdifoUa last month growing plentifully 

 in the bog under Caesar's Camp ; and that 

 Mr. W. R, Tate has discovered Einlolium 

 angustifolium, truly wild, in abundance by 

 the plank bridge over the brook, in the 

 bottom between Csesar's Camp and Coombe 

 "Wood. These are two interesting addi- 

 tions to the present Botany of that district. 

 — James Britten. 



Birth of an Hii^popotamiis. — On the 1st of 

 August last, the female Hippopotamus at 

 the Zoological Gardens, Amsterdam, gave 

 birth to a fine young male, which the 

 authorities fortunately succeeded in getting 

 away from the mother, without any harm 

 being done to it. Latest advice.s annoimce 

 that the little animal is in good health and 

 condition, and rapidly increasing in size — B. 



