' 446 — Naturalist’s Monthly Reports [Nov. 3 
The Phenogamic plants figured in the English botany for last month, are, 
Gallium erectum of Hudson, which does not seem to have been known to any foreign botanist, 
or passes under some ather name. Rosa iavo/uta, a native of the Hebrides, and taken up as a 
distinct species; perhaps, however, it is only a variety of R. spinosissima; the fruit being 
smooth or hairy, we fear will not be found a constant character any more in this than in the 
gooseberry. 
Carex ¢apillaris; sent by the Rev. Mr. Harriman from the county of Durham. It was 
not known hefore to have been found south of the Highlands of Scotland. 
Another number of the Botanist’s Repository was published last month, but we have not 
been aple to obtain it from our buokseller. he | 
NATURALIST’S MONTHLY REPORT. 
SEPTEMBER. 
How sweetly nature strikes the ravish’d eye 
Through the fine veil with which she oft conceals 
Her cliarms in part, as conscious of decay! 
ROM the first to the fifth of September, the wind was in the east and south-east; but im 
the afiernoon of the latter of these days it became westerly. It continued in the south- 
west, west, and north-west, till the 14th, when it veered to scuth-east. : It again became 
westerly two days afterwards, and continued in the west and north-west till the end of the 
fnonth. 
‘Fhere have been fresh and sometimes strong gales on twenty-six of the days of this month. = 
‘The wind was most boisterous on the 18th, 20th, 21st, 23d, 25th, and 28th. The only mode~- 
yate days were the 1st, 5th, 6thy and 16th, : 
We had more or less rain on the 2d, 7th, 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 2ist, 
@3d, 24th, 25th, 27th, 28th, and 30th. In the night of the 21st, there was a heavy fall of 
rain, and the 24th was a wet day from morning till night. There have been very few per- 
fectly clearand fine days during the whole month. 
Mushroomsare this year extremely scarce ; I have not yet seen a single one, and am informe 
edthat the makers of catsup are likely to be disappointed of their usual supply. Although meist 
weather js, no doubt, favourable to the growth of this vegetable; yet, it is to be presumed, 
that the superabundance of wet that has fallen in the course of the last three months has dee | 
stroyed the young plants before they could shoot out of the ground. L 
- September4. The rainy weather, as stated in the last month’s report, has certainly been 
injurious to the broods of partridges. There are much fewer of these birds than have been 
known for many years past. ; iS 
September 6. There was this day brought fo nfe a number of insect’s'cggs upon the leaf of 
a willow; they were each of the size of a pin’s head, ofa bluish colour, with a black speck in — 
the middle. I believed themto be the eggs of the buff-tip moth ( Bombyx bucepbalus of Haworth,} 
and laid them up with some others, the caterpillars, from which I expected to appear in the 
spring; but I was disappointed, for out of each egg, (about three days after J received them) | 
jssued a smail species of Ichneumon fly. The parent of these fies had deposited an egg into 
-each of the eggs of the moth, soon after they were laid the grub from which egg had subsisted 
on the contents of the moth’s egg, Hed there changed into a chrysalis, and finally into a fly, 
when it broke through the sheli and escaped. 
September 10. The leaves oi the lime-trees are turned yellow, and those of the poplar be- 
” gin to fall. 
: T he autumnal saffron (Crocus sativus), and meadow saffron (Colchicum autummale), are in 
flower; as are also clown’s woundwort (Stachys palustris), hooded willow herb (Scutellaria gae 
_fericulata), and wormwood (A) temisia aisinthium J. 
September 16. I have not lately seen any of the land martins, and J presume that they, as 
well as the swifts, have leit us for this season. The martins and swallows still coatinue in 
great abundance. ; 
September 22. The small birds begin to congregate. ak 2 
The fruit of the bramble, elder, holly, hops, and hawthorn, is tipe. And the yellow willow~ 
herb ( Lysimachia vulgaris) ivy, and traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba,) are in flower. 4 s 
September 29. In consequence of the great quantity of rain that has fallen this year, im- 
sense numbers of bees have been destroyed. Being deprived of a sufficiency of food in the 
waste-grounds and fields, they have swarmed in the gtocer’s shops, and warehouses, in a very 
- unusual manner, The possessors of hives say that there wil] be very little honey indeed this 
geason. - 
~ September 30. Walnuts and hazelnuts gre ripe. 
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