January 10. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
203 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Weather near London in 1863. 
M 1 i> 
l) | w 
JANUARY 19—25, 1854. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. Wind. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
; Moon 
R, & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
Dav of ! 
Year. 
19 Th 
Crvptops hortensis; gardens. 
29.957—29.799 
54—47 
s,w. 
05 
58 a 7 
24 a 4 
1 10 11 
20 
11 
2 
19 
20 F 
Crvptops Savignii ; gardens. 
29.714—29-509 
55—37 
s.w. 
17 
26 
: 11 27 
21 
11 
20 
20 
s 21 ! S 
Sun’s declinat., 19° 55' s. 
29.463—29.360 
50—33 
s.w. 
0(5 
50 
27 
morn. 
22 
11 
37 
21 
22 Son 
3 Sunday aftek Epiphany. 
29 . 764 — 29.523 
42—35 
N.W. 
00 
55 
29 
0 46 
e 
11 
54 
22 
J 23 , M 
Geophilus Acuminatus. 
30.122—29.970 
43—31 
N. 
00 
54 
31 
2 8 
24 
12 
9 
23 
j 24 ! Tn 
Geophilus longicornis. 
3U.157—20.004 
42-34 
N. 
00 
52 
33 
3 34 
25 
12 
24 
24 
25 W 
Conv. of St. Paul. 
29.803—29.647 
42—32 
E. 
00 
51 
34 
4 59 
26 
1 12 
38 
25 
Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick,from observations during: the last twenty-seven years, the average highest and lowest tem¬ 
peratures of these daysare 43.1° and 33.1° respectively. The greatest heat, 60°, occurred on the 19th in 1628 ; and the lowest cold, 45°, on the 
10th in 1838. During the period 93 days were fine, and on 06 rain fell. 
BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
{Continued from page 233.) 
Arabis iiirsuta : Hairy Wall Cress; Daisy Tower 
Mustard. 
Description .—It is a perennial. Root strong and woody. 
Stems several, about a foot high, upright, leafy, clothed with 
thick-set, spreading, or partly bent-down hairs ; branched, 
and less hairy, at the top. Leaves bluntish, variously 
toothed, more or less rough, with short, bristly, simple or 
forked, prominent hairs; the root-leaves largest, reversed- 
egg-shaped, tapering at the base ; stem-leaves numerous, 
stalkless, oblong-egg-sliaped. Flowers small. Calyx smooth, 
purplish. Petals white, moderately spreading. Stigma 
stalkless. Pods forming very long, close, smooth clusters, 
erect, slender, smooth; valves with a slight keel half way 
up, undulated from the alternate projection of the seeds, 
which are in a single row, not a double one like Turritis. 
This last character, confirmed by a similitude of habit, is 
admirably chosen by Mr. Brown to define the genus Arabis, 
in contradistinction to Turritis, whose much more numerous 
seeds are disposed in double rows. 
Time of flowering. —May. 
Places where found .—On old walls, stony or rocky banks, 
and mountain dry pastures. Not common. 
History .—Parkinson calls this the Erysimum or “ Hairy 
Hedge Mustard, with uncut leaves,” and Ray describes it as 
Barbarea muralis, “Wall Cress, or Tower Mustard, with 
Daisy leaves." It is the Turritis hirsuta of Linnaeus, and 
many other botanists. If grown in a rich soil it not only 
acquires a much larger size but loses all its hairiness. It 
is one of the “ Sciatica Cresses ” of the old herbalists, who 
say that if the roots, or leaves, but especially the roots, are 
bruised in summer, and made into an ointment with hog’s- 
lard, applied to the part affected with rheumatism, for four 
hours, and the place afterwards bathed with a little oil, and 
covered with wool or other warm wrapper, a cure will always 
I be effected. {Smith. Withering. Bay. Parkinson .) 
The January Meeting of the Entomological Society was 
held on Monday, the 2nd inst., at the Society’s Rooms, 
and, notwithstanding the great severity of the weather, 
was much better attended than could have been antici¬ 
pated. The Members of the Council had, however, 
been especially summoned to a meeting previously to 
the general meeting, to settle the lists of Council and 
Officers for the ensuing year, to he proposed at the 
Anniversary Meeting on the fourth Monday in the 
month; the result of which was, that Messrs. Spence, 
Curtis, Westwood, and Janson, are proposed to be re¬ 
moved from the Council, and Messrs. Stainton, Dallas, 
F. Smith, and Edward Shepherd, to bo elected in their 
stead. We are not sorry to perceive, in this arrange¬ 
ment, that the Council are anxious to bring the younger 
active members of the Society into the Council, re¬ 
moving such as from their length of service may desire 
to be released from the duties; but we think that the 
rule which is adopted of striking off such Members as 
have attended the Council Meeting the fewest number 
of times has been too rigidly adopted in the case of oue 
of the gentlemen proposed to be removed, as his absence 
was known to have arisen from his having been abroad 
for a long period, and his long service and devotion to 
the science, with his return to this country, ought, in 
our opinion, to have ensured his retention on the 
Council, and which, in fact, we hope may still be 
effected at the Anniversary Meeting. The Council do 
not propose any alteration in the list of officers for the 
ensuing year. 
Amongst the donations to the Library and Museum, 
received since the last meeting, were the “ Transactions of 
CCLXXVII., Vol. XI. 
