18!0.] Naturalist’s ecitie Report. 619 
Lachneea ericcephala. Native of the Cape. 
Corchorus japonicus. The double-flowered variety. Native of China 3 a new and valuable: 
acqulsition to our flowering shrubs. 
Styphelia triflora, Native of New South Wales, near Port Jackson, and a handsome green- 
house flowering shrub. 
TE TTT RE AIRE TRSY ORI PvE ae 
NATURAEIST’S MONTHLY REPOR ey 
MAY. 
Leafng Month. 
~¢¢ Sumer is'i-cumen in 
Lhude sing cuccu. 
Groweth seed, 
And bloweth meed, 
And springeth the wde nu.” —=O7d Ballad. en 
fs wind has been more or less easterly every day during the present month,’ except the 
Sth, 9th, 10th, 21st, and 22d. Oj the evenings of the 4th, 5th, and 10th, it was north- 
west ; and it i ated from south-east to north-west, from the 15th to the 25th. From the 
25th to the Sist it was generally easterly until towards the evening g, when it sometimes 
changed to west or south-west. 
There were strong gales from the south. east on the Sd, 7th, 11th, and 14th; and: from 
the south-west on the Qist. 
During the greatest part of the month the Heathei has been dry ; ‘we had, however, some 
rain on the afternoons of the 7th, 9th, and 12th, andi4th. The 17th and 18th were rainy 
days; and in the night of the 20th some rain fell. The evenings and nights have been for 
the most part unsegsonably cold. 
May i. For the first time this year I heard the,nightingale; but 1 am informed that 
these birds have been heard for several aes past. The swallows and martins are bes 
ginning to build their nests. 
The woud-strawberry (fragaria vesca), jack-by-the- aeaee (erysimum alliaria), Icuse- wort 
(pedicularis sylvatica), harebell (scilla nutans), dog violet (viola canina), cuckoo flower (care 
damine pratcusis), plantain- -leaved sandwort (arenaria trinervia), and thyme-leaved sandwort 
“(arenaria_sepyllifolia), arecin flower, 
May 3d. Atherines,. oreas they are called jin Hampshire; Southampton smelts, are now 
caught on the sandy sea-shores in great abundance. 
The salmon fishers have not hitherto been yery successful; nor does it seem probable that 
the rivers of this neighbourhood can be well supplied with salmon, so lung as nets are per- 
mitted to be hawled through the.winter for the purpose of catching perch and pike. The 
salmon spawn is by this means not only disturbed, but as I am informed, frequently dra ged 
On shore by the nets. The construction of the wiers at the mills is also such, as oftentimes 
to prevent the salmon from passing up the rivers to spawn. 
May 5th. Field crickets (gry/lus campestris) crink. This noise is produced by the males, 
and shrill and loud as it is, is made merely by the friction of one wing-case against the other. 
Each cricket has its own hole, the male separated even from the female. These holes are 
generally first opened in the month of elt and the insects continue to be heard until — 
about the middle of August. 3 
May 6th. The sedge-warbler (motacilla salicaria), j is arrived. : 
May 8th. The following herbaceous plants are in flower: male fool’s orchis onerhe rally, 
common bugle (ajuga reptars), nettle (urtica disica), cow parsnip (beracleum sphondylium), sea 
arrow gress (triglochin maritimum), sea milkwort (glaax maritima), red campion (Lyebnis 
dioica), heath seg (carex recurva), and yellow seg earl tae , 
May 15th. ‘The hawthorn is in flower. 
May 16th. The caterpillars of the six-spot Bontée. moth (sphinx filipendule of Linneus), 
aygacna filipencula of Haworth), begin to'spin (upon the stalks of rushes and grass (the 
yellow cuse in which they change into a chrysalid state... They continue in this state abous 
forty day s, when they break vut from the shell in their perfect or image form. 
The fiy-catchers (muscicapa grisola), are arrived. 
Orange-tip butterflies (papilic cardamines) fly about the roads and hedges. 
May 22d. Cock-chafers (scarabaeus melolontha) ave Jess numerous this year than I recollect 
them to have been for several years past. 
May 23d. The long horned bee (apis long: icornis) appears. These bees form a cylindrical 
kind of nidus, in wh ich the female, about the beginning of July, deposits her eggs. 
A river trout has been caught with a rod aad line which weighed nine pounds, and, in its 
its whole length, measured somewhat more than twenty-seven inches. 
The mackrel fishermen have begun to haw! their Seine nets on the sea-shore for these fish, 
but they haye not hitherto been successful. 
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