wes Monthly Botanical Report. [March 1, 
weighed seventeen pounds, was on new-year’s day 3 the second eae twenty te oat 
the third was not quite ‘so large as the first. 
January 20th. The catkins of the alder and hazel are nearly ready to burst. this day 
observed the following plants to be in flower: chickweed, purple dead nettle (lamium purpu- 
reum), daisy, and furze. 
No additional quantity of wild-fowl appears to have yet been driven in by the severe wea- 
ther which we have experienced for the last seven or eight days. | 
January 24th. In consequence of the surface of the earth having been loosened by the 
thaw of last night, I this morning remarked that the earth-worms “had come out of the 
ground during the night in great numbers. ‘Some of the pastures were, in ‘particular spots, 
almost covered with the earth that they had thrown up. 
January 20th. The flower-buds er the Laurustinus are beginning to open in sheltered and 
warm situations. 
January Sist. Of indigenous pibeibss the following ate now in niet Groiindsel (senecie 
wuigaris) wall-flower, (cheiranthus fruticulosus) and Dandefion ; and in gardens the buds of the 
snow-drop and Hepatica will soon expand their petals. 
Hampshire, 
Errata in our last Report.—For ‘ eweret,” read ¢6 leweret = and aint the comma after the 
word leisure, ], 4: from the end. i 
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MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
OF the monthly botanical publications, we have not, for some time, had to notice any but 
the Botanical Magazine, and English Botany : all the others, either unable to cope with 
the difficulties of the times, or from the leisure of their authors bEIne occupied with other 
pursuits, have been dropped, or at least suspended. 
Dr. Smith has lately published the first;partfof his Prodromus Flore Grace ; ee tie 
néan Society have published a part of the tenth volume of their Transactions: but of these 
“works we-must defer any further notice till another opportunity. 
The Botanical Magazise for the last month contains :, 
Yucca gloriosa. Mr. Gawler observes, that this species has pent confounded with alvifolia, 
which is very distinct, and that the Yucca gloriosa of the Botanist’s Repository, is realiy the 
aloifolia of Linnzus. The synonymy of this plant seems to be very complete. 
Iris pumila var. vislacea. The purple and yellow varieties of this species have appeared 
before. In all these three, something generally different from each other, besides the colour 
of the flowers, may be observed, which to us leads to. a doubt whether they may not in reality 
be distinct species; we are therefore glad to sce good figures of all of them in the magazine. 
Mr. Gawler Arty the difficulty of ascertaining the Tae species; the one here figured is 
usually called biforain the nurseries. The bifiora of Linnzeus, according to the synonymy from 
Basler, appears to Mr. Gawler, to bea dwarf variety of the subbifiora of the Botanicat Ma- 
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_ gazine 
‘Aves, AS sit has usually occurred to our observati on, 
“Narcissus triandrus var. luteus. As this appears to be precisely the same variety as the one 
figurei jn an early number of the magazine, we do not see the reason of repeating it here; it 
cannot have béen an oversight, because the former ene js quoted. In the two figures haw- 
ever, there is 2 considerable difference in the length of the nectarium. We have heard a 
story of this species having been found apparently wild, somewhere in the north of England ; 
but we have. no doubt that this is a mistake, 
Mimosa pubescens. “This appears to us to be one of the most beautiful figures in the work, 
and we doubt not will be selected by many a fair artist co ormament her Sre-skreens, os tablis, 
if the quantity of labour should not deter her from the undertaking. 
Nigella srientalis. “Nigella Hispanica. Garidella Nigellastrum. Nigella and GarideHia Are 
so nearly 2ilicd, that we are glad to see these three plants, which mutually illustrate each 
other, brought togetter. 
The En English Botany for Februar except three species of mint, contains no other heno-. 
y Ys P wee > Pp 
gamic ¢ olant. 
Ment ha gentilis, The original of the variegated ‘variety, which | is SO weasel cultivated 
by c Peete {a scverdl counties of England, and usually called Oranges Mint. We have 
found this species in a ditch on St roud’s Greeny near Hornsey, and observe the character men- 
tioned by Dr. Smith, ‘of the smoothness of the lower part of the calyx and of t‘ e peduncles to 
to be constant, though i in some specimens of Mentha gevtilis trom gardens, it does not appear 
t be so. 
Mentha arvensis. This figure does not appear at all characteristic of the habit of the plant. 
Mentha agrestis of Sole, and considered by Smith, in his FloraBritannica, as a variety of M. 
“t he-two figures, as here given, are certainly so much alike, that they can hardly 
ara €nsis. 
t two distinct species; but neither of them gives ua an idea of Mentha 
be supposed to represen 
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