... NATURE NOTES. The introduction and spread of plants is at times most remarkable. Some consider that a plant is not a native unless its pedigree can be traced hack to pre- Roman days. SOMO very handsome wild flowers in our corn-lands are not indigenous ...

... NATURE NOTES If familiarity did not breed contempt the Ragwort would be admired as much as many a tender plant, like its near relative the Cineraria, which has to be carefully martured in the hothouse to bring it into flower. Were it not so common its ...

... NATURE NOTES. The duration of the roadmen's strike in Cardiganshire may be guaged pretty fairly by rank growth of certain weeds along the kghn - ays. In the Vale of Aeron. where the road runs near the railway, the strong eolonie., of the Willow Herb and ...

... NATURE NOTES. The two wild species of pansy are the common heart's-ease and the mountain pansf. The former is abundantly met with almost throughout Britain, while the latter, though common on the bills of dcotland and Wales, and the northern parts of ...

... NATURE NOTES BIRD NOTES.-I the 180 species of birds that , an properly be called British 36 are summer visitors. They arrin here in spring to breed. and depart in late summer or early .iutumn to winter in mme sunnier clime; Attics. India, China. and parts ...

... NATURE NOTES. VL-BIRD6 01 THE WEEK. Every week the chorus of birds' sellge Swells. louder, as new voices join hi th res hes, eirattiue.hes,' hedge-sparioss, tits, wrens and golden-crested), greenfinehes, and yellow-hionmers are inking their parts in the ...

... NATURE NOTES. September ushers iL tho season cif allots and mellow fruitfulitess:' The tree,s are beginning to change coiner, and the fledge, are brightened. with a profusion of scarkt berries, of Ztipe. haws, homersuekles, meontain a viburnum. and Ission ...

... NATURE NOTES Among the most interesting of the many wildlings in flower just now is the Goat's Beard. At Aberystwyth a strorg colony of this plant may be seen in the old St. Michael's Churchyard. Those who are not famOar with it may easily discover it ...

... NATURE NOTES IX.-BIRDS OF , WEE The simplest bird's neat is indeed a ma-terpiece; and when we examine some of the more complicated kinds, and think that they have been constructed with no tools slept the 'bird's beak and slaws, and with as material except ...

... NATURE NOTES. New that the wheat is getting white already to harvest. there is hardly a .ornfield in the land where the Scarlet Pimpernel does not spread its brilliant little flower. This tiny a - di:Ling has some pretty English names, as the Shepherd's ...

... NATURE NOTES A rhange in the weather has at last brought the Lesser CeEindine into flower—fully six weeks later than some previous records at Aberystwyth. A Blackthorn (the Myrobella) has been in flower in the Rheidol Valley for near a week The Elm is ...

... NATURE NOTES The carlet pimpernel peep: here and there. linid the corn th.? crirncon poppies bltsb. iijll on the brooks gleam water-lilics rare. And purple looseArife, and the fiowe-ing rush. The blue campanula, the chicory wild. And yellow toadflax. ...