... NATURE NOTES. Many observations are on record respecting the first appearances of plants, but few which inform us of their disappearance. We all know, for example, that the primrose is frequently plentiful in March, and is at its prime about the middle ...

... NATURE NOTES. The last week in May vill be memorable for its extreme cold, the heavy falls of snow with which we were favoured on the 20th and 21st, and the injury resulting to plants and fruit from the untoward atmospheric conditions. On Sunday the mountains ...

... NATURE NOTES. (REV. HILDERIC FRIEND.) THE PERILS OP LIFE. A friend of mine shewed me the other day a new set - 5 coins fresh from the Mint. They had been produced in one of our pushing centres of industry for use by one of those Eastern races who have ...

... NATURE NOTES. (REV. HILDERIC FRIEND.) The Recorder at the Brookfield School, Wigton, reports that during the first six days of March, notwithstanding the fact that all last year's flowers had been killed by the late severe frost, the dandelion, daisy ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY HILDERIC FRIEND. Snow in harvest! One has read of such a thing, but it is not every year that we experience the sight. Yet we have had so many surprises d tirin 4 . the past twelvemonth, that one or two additional abnormalities will create ...

... NATURE NOTES. Some new plant names have come under notice since my last list was written. BLOOMING SALLY. This name is in use at Bownesson-Solway as it is in many parts of Ireland, for the narrow-leaved willow-herb (Lpilobiunt angustijblitem). Like Bouncing ...

... NATURE NOTES. PARASITIC FUNGI continue to come to the fore. The Coltsfoot, which has already yielded us one of the finest of clustercups, may now be found suffused with the brilliant spores of a golden rust (Coleosporium . ). Just as the clustercup is ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY REV. HILDERIC FRIEND. Although the New Year with us commences with the first of January, from the naturalist's point of view, it begins about the first of March under normal conditions. If the season is advanced, we often find the biological ...

... NATURE NOTES. (REV. HILDERIC FRIEND.) The rainfall at Grange, in Borrowdale, during the month of February, amounted to 1,45. The greatest fall was on the 6th, amounting to 0.55, or little more than half-an-inch. Rain (in the form of snow chiefly) fell ...

... NATURE NOTES. (Rev. Hilderie Friend). It is one of the duties of the Naturalist to record the dates when plants cease to flower, and another to observe the time of opening. During a walk along the road from Cockermouth to Pardshaw on June 13th I made ...

... NATURE • NOTES. (Rev. Hilderic Friend). During a walk from Cockermouth to Sunderland the other day I had the good fortune to find one or two varieties in the way of plant-life. The first was a cluster of the smooth leaved rocket (Turritis glabra), a plant ...

... NATURE NOTES. 13 Y HILDERIC FRIEND. The abnormal character of the present season may be gathered from the fact that the hedgerows in the lake district are at the present time (middle of September) gay with the nectar-laden blossoms of the honeysuckle ...