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I have thought that it would prove interesting to put before the readers of the, and especially those who are fond of Botany, the results of a ramble in the neighbourhood of Birmingham during the first week of the new year. Several paragraphs had appeared in the newspapers of that week, calling attention to the fact that primroses and violets were already in flower. I notice also that a correspondent (E.W.B.) in the February number of the magazine gives a list of flowers gathered from his garden on Christmas-day last. The mildness of the present winter naturally led us to expect that the winter and early spring flowers would blossom sooner than usual; and, therefore, one was not altogether surprised to hear of primroses and violets having already appeared, but the addition given by E. W. B. is one worthy of notice, as it is evidence not only of a mild winter, but of a very mild autumn also; otherwise, such flowers as roses, stocks, mignonette, &c., would not be in blossom at this season of the year, is in the nature of things they ere kill by the frosts and cold nights which usually characterise the autumn season. I therefore venture to add to the lists already given the plants I found in flower during the first week of January last. For some years I have made a ramble during that particular week, and always in the same locality, in order to note what plants were in bloom, as a record of the mildness or severity of the autumn and winter seasons, and for other reasons. Whilst in preceding years I have not found on an average more than twelve plants in flower in the district to which I limited my survey, this year I have recorded upwards of eighty British wild flowers, besides an unusually large number of garden flowers. The following is the list:—

Caltha palustris. Geom urbauds. Texoniea Buxhaurnii. Helleboras fetidns, Alehemilla arvensis. Veronies rgcestis. Capsella Bursa-pastoria. Spergula arvensis. enerium Seorodonis, Draba verna. Sedum reflexnm. Bullota nlera. Gurdamine hirsuta. Chssrophbyliun = temuicn- Tiamium albu. Karharea yvalearig. pum. Laminm purpuretm. Sistmbrinm oficinale. Hedera Helix. Lamium amplexicale. Chuiranthus Cheiri. Gelium aparinc. Prbnnla yulguria. Sinapis arvensis, Sonehus oleracens. Armeria. maritima, (in Viola odorata. Crepis yirens. gardens.)

¥iola tricolor. Leontodon Varaxaeam. Pilantago major, Lyehnis vespertina. Lapsana vomuiiunis. FPlantage Corenepus. Sagina procumbens. Carduns antars, Polygonum avienlare. Stellaria media. Senecio yniaris. Euphorbia Pepins. Stellaria graminer. Bellis perennis. Enpharbia hehoseapta, Arenaria trinervig. Chrysanthemum Tcnern- Jinxms sembervirens. Cerastium yiscosani, themium, Urties nreny, Cerastiam ralgatum. Matricaria Parthenium, Galanthus nivalia, Getanilim sanguinenia. Matricaria inddera. Jmzila campestris. freranium malic. Anthemis nabilis. Calhina. vulgaris. Gerantim Rebertiannm. <Arbrias Unedo, Fricw cinerea.

Ulex Huropeus. llex aquifmlimnn. Spergniuna rubra. Ulex uauns. Myosotis eollina. Daphne mezcrean, Vicia hirsaca, Weronica hedere folin. Scleranthus annuns,

In addition to these, I lave found several species of Rubus, Rumex, Cyperacem, duncacee, and Graininer, This list will, I dare say, cause surprise to some, and perhaps doubt; but in all eases, except one or two, the specimens I gathered were very good ones, and would not have disgraced any collector's herbarium. I have not included plants found in bud, though I have taken a note of them, nor those in fruit, whose petals had evidently just fallen; but only those actually in blossom. I found them all within a few miles of Birmingham, I had not the opportunity to wander through, or doubtless some