236 
BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS. 
BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS, 
WITH VOUCHER SPECIMENS. 
Name. 
Date 
1885. 
Date 
1884. 
As¬ 
pect. 
1885. 
Soil, Situation, Ac. 
1885. 
Corylus Avellana 
Feb. 1 
Jan. 13 
Open 
Hedge. Both male 
and female flowers. 
Tussilago Farfara 
8 
„ 12 
S. 
Railway bank, same 
station both years. 
Helleborus viridis 
„ 15 
— 
Open 
Meadow. Inflores¬ 
cence & foliage only. 
Draba verna 
„ 21 
Feb. 17 
Garden path. 
Salix capraea 
Mar. 8 
— 
S.E. 
Coppice. Female 
flowers. 
Ranunculus Ficaria 
„ 8 
Mar. 6 
Open 
Coppice. 
Primula veris 
„ 15 
„ 9 
? 5 
Anemone nemorosa 
,, 15 
„ 16 
Potentilla Fragariastrum 
„ 15 
5 * 
Helleborus viridis 
» 22 
n 
Meadow. Expanded 
flowers, vide supra 
Adoxa lVloschatellina .. 
„ 22 
— 
s. 
Bank. 
Cardamine hirsuta 
„ 27 
Mar. 6 
West 
Side of a stream. In 
fruit. 
Caltha palustris 
» 27 
29 
Open 
Moist meadow. Same 
station both vears. 
Viola Riviniana.. 
» 29 
— 
N. E. 
Hedge bank. 
Nepeta Glechoma 
Apr. 3 
Mar. 29 
S. 
Bank. 
Petasites vulgaris 
„ 3 
— 
Open 
Moist meadow. 
Viola liirta 
» 11 
— 
W. 
Hedge bank. 
Viola Reichenbachiana.. 
„ 11 
? J 
Anemone Pulsatilla 
„ 12 
— 
S.E. 
Chalk hills. Mr. J. 
Catt. 
Prunus spinosa .. 
„ 12 
Mar. 16 
S. 
Warm hedge bank. 
Only a few blossoms 
Cardamine pratensis .. 
„ 21 
Apr. 5 
Open 
Meadow. 
Luzula campestris 
„ 23 
Mar. 30 
S. 
Luton Hoo Park. 
Scilla nutans 
,, 25 
Apr. 6 
s. w. 
Coppice. 
Ranunculus bulbosus .. 
» 25 
— 
! J 
Railway bank. 
Stellaria Holostea 
„ 26 
Mar. 23 
S.E. 
Warm bank. Com¬ 
paratively late. 
Ranunculus auricomus.. 
„ 28 
Apr. 10 
— 
Luton Hoo Park. Mr. 
J. Catt. 
Orchis mascula .. 
May 5 
May 4 
Open 
Coppice. 
Sisymbrium Alliaria 
» 16 
Apr. 19 
> J 
Side of a stream. 
Pyrus acerba 
„ 17 
— 
5 J 
Hedge row. 
Crataegus monogyna 
.. 17 
May 11 
S. 
Geranium Robertianum 
„ 28 
Apr. 10 
s.w. 
Hedge bank. Com¬ 
paratively late. 
Staminate Flowers of Mercurialis perennis were gathered as early 
as the last week of 1884. 
J. Saunders, Luton. 
