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[Sept. 1* 
Monthly Botanical Report* 
There were strong gales on the Sd, 14'^h, and 22d, and fresh gales on the 4th, 12 th, ISth* 
16th, 17 th, 18th, I9ch, 23d, and 25th.^ We bad rain, more or less, on tlie 2d, 3d, iOth, Ijthj 
(St.-Swithin) ISch, 19th, 20ch, 21 st* and 22d. On the 2 d the showers were excessively 
heavy, and accompanied with thunder 5 this, however, was the only thunder storm we had 
during the whole month. 
Julv 3d. The young swallows begin to leave their nests. The bloom of the lime trees 
drops off. 
julv 4 th Apricots are ripe. In this part of the country fruit of almost all kinds is now 
extremely scarce, owing to he frosty nights which occurred during the time in which the trees 
were in bloom Goeseoerries and currants are nearly the only kinds which do not appear to 
have suffered injury. The apples in several parts of Hampshire are fewer in quantity than 
have been known for many years past. 
July 8 th. Alanjprey (petramy-zon marirrus oi lAnncSMt) was this day brought to me. These 
fish, although in some places held in the highest esteem for the tables of the opulent are 
here e.itirely neglectea. No one, in this neighbourhood at least, appears inclined to risk the 
fate of our King Henry the first, who died in consequence of a surfeit oy eating too voraciously 
of them. Lampreys are inhabitants of the sea, but come up the rivers, in the spring of the 
year, for the purpose of ceposlting their spawn. It is about the months of June and July 
that in our rivers they are caught, but as they are in no request the fishermen seldom expose 
the m :br saie. 
July 11 th. The mackarel fishers have been veiy unsuccessful, except during a few days 
at the commenc'^ment of the season. 
July 14ch. Bank martins (hirundo r:par\a of Linnaeus) have left their nests and fly about. 
Co" 5 r!mon dodd-r (cascuta Europaa) ^ bog pimpernel (andgalFn tenella)^ marsh cinquefoil 
(^comjru.''n paluitre), hare’s foot trefoil (trifelium ar-veme), hoary cinquefoil (potenulla argenrta)^ 
joint cLrush {jur.cus articulatus), hard rush Quncus inj^exus), wild teasel (,dlpsacus falloman) ^ 
bull-rush or reea-mace {typka great bind-weed (^cin'vdvidus sepium'), and yellow 
scone crop (^sedum rcfiexum), are now in flower. 
July loth. Sc. iwithirr. The omen of rain for forty successive days, by rain having 
fallen on the commemoration day of the Winchester saint, has this year entirely failed. 
July 20 ch. The rye i.s nearly ripe. The barley and wheat are now quite yellow j and the 
CroDS for the most part extremely abundant, notwithstanding the outcry respecting' a blight, 
which has been with great industry spread abroad by a few of the farmers, for the purpose of 
enhancing the price of grain now on hand. 
July 23d. A salmon of considerable weight, whic.h it is supposed had been struck by H 
porpoise, was caught by one of the bathing women wfithin a few yards of the shore. Ic was 
still alive. 
July 2 Dch. Field pease, are cut. Morelia cherries are ripe. 
July ti7ch. I this day heard, for the first time, the shrill, continued crinklng of the larg^ 
green locust (grylius ‘verruci'vorus of Linnseus.^ 
July Slst. Oats, rye, and wheat, have been cut. 
The srt allow tribe appear to be congregating much earlier than usual. This, however, I 
presume, is entirely owing to the cold weather w'hich has of late been so prevalent j and no 
doubt, when the weather again becomes seasonable, they will again disperse, until the regular 
period of their migration approaches. 
■HiTT-pibire. 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
second volume of the Hob Tus Kewensis, which has been published since the ever- 
to be-lamented death of Mr. Dryander, appears by its contents to have undergone, 
throughout, the revision of that enoinent botanist. We observe, however, in many parts, 
marks of haste j andaoubtsor diflicult cases are frequently slurred over without that careful 
investigatiun and lucid ceter.niination which was to have been expected from his abilities, 
and which would, most certainly, not have been wanting, had he entered upon his task coij 
am're. 
Professor \\ ilde.now’s Species Plantarum is generally followed, and, as being the com- 
plerest catalogue, and now in the hands of every botanist, there is certainly a considerable 
convenience in this, yet we cannot help regretting, that the references to Linnaeus’s own 
edition of the Species, should not have been preserved, the more especially, as these have 
been so mquently omitted by Wilcenow himself. 
In the Asclepiadeae, Mr. Brown’s Genera, as published by him, in the transact'ens of the 
Wernerian Society, are adopted, whicli makes a considerable change in the arrangement of 
the species belonging to that natural order. Something was necessarv to be done, i>nd per* 
Jiaps author coula not do better than to follow the system tf Mr. Brown, who has taken 
great pains with it, and made more observations upon this order than any other botanist. 
Linnaeus 
