:2'84 THE CALENDAR OF FLORA. 
Sept. IX. 
xvii. Sampire, golden flowered , 174. i. Inula 
crithmoid . 
*S WALLOW goes under water . 
WAGTAIL, white , departs . 
Nos quoque flpruimus, fed fios fuit ille caducus. 
X. SHEDDING MONTH. 
From the firft fall of the leaves of trees to the l aft . 
xxii, Orach, fea 9 152.8. Artiplex piaritima. 
Leaves of trees are changed,*, of the oak , maple , r<A'~ 
W caragana , £&*, &»*, to a yellow j of the fpin- 
tree to a brown , of the qidcken tree and flumacb 
to a red colour. 
Leaves of the oak dry and yellow. 
xxiv. || Leaves of the maple begin to fall in the night , 
xxv. Hoar f reft. 
xxvi. Leaves of the robinia caragana fall , 
Sycamore firipped of its leaves. 
OdL X. 
iv. Cherry, bird, firipped of its leaves. 
v. A ft or m. 
* Adamfon in the account of his voyage to Senegal, p. 121. fays, 
that Oftoher 1749 , European fwallows lodged on the veffel in which 
lie went from Goree to Senegal, and that they are never feen there but 
at this time of the year, along with quails, wagtails, kites, and fame 
other birds of paflage, and do not build nefts there. This teftimony 
Teems to take away all doubts about this long conte fled point. 
|| Geminus, either from himfelf or Democritus, which i s much tl e 
fame, as Rome and Abdera were nearly in the fame latitude, fays 
that the leaves of trees began to drop the fourth of Scorpio^ which 
anfwers to October z%. 
Green 
