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NATURALIST S calendar. 
II.—NATURALISTS CALENDAR, 
OR OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE, FOR NOVEMBER. 
The figure of the Ficaria ranunculoides or Ranunculus Ficaria, given page 
140, being inadvertently inserted incorrectly, see p. 329, we have given another 
figure (65, 1) one-fourth of the natural size which we drew from a plant now 
lying before us. This plant is found in meadows, bushy places, and hedge banks, 
thriving best under the shade of trees. The roots lie near the surface, and are 
sometimes laid bare by the rains. The plant is injurious to moist grass lands, 
where any quantity of it grows, but may be effectually destroyed by a dressing 
of coal or wood ashes. The flower is usually closed in wet weather. The petals 
are usually nine, and the sepals of the calyx three. On the bogs and moors 
where there is much moisture, that curious plant the Drosera anglica (2) may be 
found ; it grows about six inches high, and has the remarkable property of de¬ 
taining any insect that may venture to settle upon its leaves. The figure is 
about one-fourth of the natural size. The petals are five in number and white, 
the calyx consists of the same number of sepals. A little evergreen perennial 
plant with bright blue flowers, bearing a considerable resemblance to borage may 
be found more or less throughout Britain growing in waste places upon rubbish, it 
is the Anchusa sempervirens or evergreen Bugloss. It usually grows about a 
foot and a half high. 
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New Species of Fish. —The enclosed is a pen sketching of a small Fish l 
caught about eighteen months ago, while pleasuring in the West Indies. I did 
not see many of them, and was upwards of half an hour in chase of this one, as 
they swim uncommonly fast, and the environs being rocky, I lost him several 
