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BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS. 
Aug., 1889. 
BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS, 
WITH VOUCHER SPECIMENS. 
Name. 
Date 
1888. 
Date 
1888. 
Aspect 
1888. 
Situation, &c. 
1888. 
Mercurialis perennis .. 
Ditto ditto 
Feb. 12 
Dec. 9 
„ 26 
1889. 
S.W. 
1889. 
Hedge bank. Three 
female stems, with 
buds and foliage. 
Coppice. Male flow¬ 
ers plentiful, female 
rare. 
1889. 
Poten. Fragariastrum .. 
Apr. 15 
Jan.20 
N.W. 
Bank. Numerous 
flowers and ripe 
fruits. 
Corylus Avellana 
Jan.29 
„ 26 
N. 
Hill top. Female only 
Tussilago Farfara 
Mar. 3 
„ 26 
S. 
One flower only 
Cardamine hirsuta 
„ 30 
Mar. 9 
S.W. 
Brook side. 
Petasites vulgaris 
.. 4 
»» 9 
Open 
Moist meadow. In 
1888 only one plant 
in blossom, March 
4th, which was cut 
off by frost. The 
plants generally 
were a fortnight 
earlier in 1889 than 
in 1888. 
Helleborus viridis 
A pr. 1 
„ io 
W. 
Moist meadow. 
Ran. Ficaria 
Anemone Pulsatilla 
Mar.30 
„ 10 
Apr. 1 
S.E. 
Country orchard. 
Barton Hills. On 
Chalk ; Mr. C. 
Crouch. 
Caltha palustris.. 
Apr. 13 
„ 1 
N. 
Barton Spring. Mr. 
C. Crouch. 
Anemone nemorosa 
„ 15 
„ 13 
Open 
Moist meadow. 
Viola Reichenbacliiana 
„ 19 
W. 
Coppice. 
Nepeta Glechoma 
„ 28 
„ 20 
N. 
Plantation. 
Stellaria Holostea 
May 12 
„ 21 
Hedge. One blossom. 
Primula veris 
Apr. 21 
„ 21 
W. 
Meadow. 
Prunus spinosa .. 
29 
„ 27 
Open 
Hedge. 
Cardamine pratensis .. 
May 12 
„ 27 
>5 
Meadow. 
Scilla nutans 
„ 13 
„ 27 
s. 
Coppice. 
Galeobdolon luteum 
May 4 
w. 
Hedgebank. 
Sisym. Alliaria .. 
„ 12 
„ 4 
>1 
Bank. 
Ger. Robertianum 
„ 21 
„ 18 
Bank. Plentiful. 
Orchis Morio 
„ 19 
Open 
Pasture. 
Crataegus monogyna .. 
„ 13 
„ 23 
N. 
Hedge. 
The unusually warm weather of the late autumn of 1888 
brought on the plants of Mercunalis perennis, so that many of 
them had thrown up their vernal shoots early in December, 
and were in full blossom before the end of the. year. With 
reference to Tussilago Farfara , observations have been con¬ 
tinued in the same station since 1880, the date for each year 
being as follows:—1880, March 3rd; 1881, January 29th; 
