Art. IX. Floral Calendar, &c.
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Art. IX. Floral Calendar, &c.
To the Editor of the American Journal of Science, &c.
Plainfield, October 17, 1818.
Sir, Should the following calendar be thought worthy of a place in your Journal, you will please to insert it. Though very brief, it will show that vegetation is considerably later on the range of mountains, on which this place is situated, than in the level parts of our country.
Yours truly,
J. PORTER.
Floral Calendar for Plainfield, Massachusetts, 1818. By Jacob Porter.
March 13. Robins and bluebirds appear.
April 25. Claytonia in flower. A considerable part of the ground is covered with snow, which, in many places, is 2 or 3 feet deep.
April 27. Observed the claytonia, blue violet, strawberry, and a species of sedge, in blossom, at Worthington.
May 1. Hepatica, roundleaved violet, and erythronium in flower.
May 10. Chrysosplenium, or golden saxifrage, in flower.
May 15. The large trillium, or purple wakerobin, in flower.
May 18. Uvularia, or cellwort, and white violet, in flower.
May 19. A fall of snow, so that the ground at night was almost covered with it.
May 22. The beautiful coptis, or goldthread, in flower.
May 25. Ash and beech in flower.
May 26. Sugar-maple, viburnum, threeleaved arum, blue violet, small panax, prostrate mitella, fly honeysuckle, white berried gaultheria, and umbelled Solomon's seal, in flower.
June 17. Absent, since my last date, on a tour to New-York. Four other specimens of Solomon's seal, trientalis, azalea, 2 species of crowfoot, blue-eyed grass, medeola, moose-bush, and several species of vaccinium, in flower. The small trillium, or smiling wakerobin, sarsaparilla, and dentaria, blossomed during my absence.
June 22. Small enothera, 2 species of veronica, and the golden senecio, in flower.
June 23. Mountain ash, Norway potentilla, sanicle, and the lovely linnea in flower.
June 28. Prunella, and red and white clover, in flower.
June 29. Mitchella, in flower.
June 30. Yellow diervilla, in flower.
July 1. Climbing corydalis, in flower.
July 4. The fimbriate archis, and roundleaved pyrola, in flower.
July 5. Spiked epilobium, and roundleaved mallows, in flower.
July 6. Mullen, in flower.
July 7. Small geranium in flower.
July 8. Another species of epilobium, in flower.
August 18. Frost this morning.
ZOOLOGY.
