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CoRYLACE^ : 
Alnus cordifolia 
Corylus Avellana 
Garryace^ : 
Garrja elliptica 
Conifers : 
Cryptomeria japonica 
Cupressus Lawsoniana 
Thuja plicata 
Taxace^ ; 
Cephalotaxus Fortuni 
Taxus baccata 
Iridace^ : 
Iris tenax 
Sisyrinchium anceps 
grandiflorum 
Amaryllidace^ : 
Galanthus nivalis 
Alstroemeria aurantiaca 
LiLIACEiE : 
Muscari racemosum 
Tritoma media 
Naiadace^ : 
Aponogeton distachyum 
CYPERACEiE : 
Carex muricata 
paniculata 
Scirpus Holoschcenus 
Gramine^ : 
Arrhenatherum avenaceum 
Gynerium argenteum 
Holcus lanatus 
Knappia agrostidea 
Lagurus ovatus 
Lolium perenne 
Panicum capillare 
Poa annua 
nemoralis = 245 
The following Ferns were also 
Asplenium Puta-muraria 
Blechnum boreale 
Lastrea dilatata 
Filix-mas cristata 
rigida 
in fructification : — 
Polypodium vulgare 
Polystichum acrostichoides 
Lonchitis 
Scolopendrium vulgare = 9 
Note. — Up to 4th February the only other plants in flower have been the 
following : — 24th January — Nordmannia cordifolia. 2d February — Galanthus 
plicatus. 11th February — Leucojum vernum. 
The state of vegetation in December was much influenced by the 
nature of the weather during the preceding months of October and 
November. No marked check was given to it during these months, 
and the temperature was such as to stimulate the action of the cells 
and vessels of the plants. In December the comparatively high 
temperature continued. I have asked my friend, Mr Alexander 
Buchan, Secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society, to draw 
up for me a tabular view of the temperature of the three months 
during the last seven years. I have supplied the lowest daily tem- 
peratures, as observed in the Botanic Garden ; and for want of suffi- 
cient data in the garden, he has selected for the other data a sta- 
tion in Fife (Balfour) where the temperatures in general resemble 
much those noticed at the Botanic Garden. (I hope to be able to 
make arrangements in future for a full series of thermometrical, 
barometrical, and hygrometrical observations being made at the 
Botanic Garden.) 
