28 REMARKABLE PLANTS FOUND GROWING, &C. 



OrdeRj CypERACEiE. — Eleockaris palustris, Creeping Spike- 

 rush ; Coleshill Pool, Pebble Mill Pool, and the stream near 

 Vaughton's Hole. Scirpus syhaticusj Wood Clubrush; side of 

 the brook nearly opposite Avern's mill, Edgbaston Lane. Erio- 

 phorum angustifolium, Narrow-leaved Cotton-grass ; Coleshill Bog. 

 — (C. III., Linn.) — Carex stellulatay Prickly Sedge ; Coleshill 

 Bog. C panicea, Pink-leaved Sedge ; same habitat. — (C. XXI., 

 Linn.) 



Order, GRAMiNACEiE. — Nardus stricta, Common Matgrass; 

 Sutton Coldfield, a little beyond the new Catholic College. — 

 (C. III., Linn.) 



DIVISION II.— CELLULARES. 



Class III. — Acotyledones, or Cryptogams. 



Order, Filicaces. — Aspidmm lohatum, Close-leaved Shield- 

 fern ; a bank at Saltley. A. spi?iulosumj Prickly-toothed Shieldfem ; 

 a shady bank in Garrison Lane, opposite the row of Poplars. Asple- 

 nium ruta-miiraria, Wall Spleenwort ; an old wall at Sandwell 

 Park ; Aston Park wall, side next the lane leading to Witton. — 

 Blechnum boreale. Northern Hardfem ; Moseley Common, near 

 the new road ; Coleshill Bog.— (C. XXIV., Linn.) 



In this list I have probably inserted the names of some plants 

 which may be considered common, while, on the other hand, I have 

 omitted others of more rare occurrence. This must unavoidably hap- 

 pen : plants which are scarce in one locality are very often common 

 in another, and to decide in all cases when a plant may be deemed 

 rarCj and when common, is no easy matter. I have purposely 

 admitted a few which are by no means generally rare, though, from 

 local circumstances, they happen not frequently to be met with 

 around Birmingham — such as Nuphar lutea and Anemone nemorosa 

 — merely for the direction of young collectors, whose botanical 

 rambles may be circumscribed to the immediate neighbourhood. 

 Limited as the collection was to the observations of otie summer, it 

 can excite no wonder that this selection is not more extensive ; 

 many plants were not in bloom when I happened to visit their lo- 

 calities, and I hope, by future additions, to make it much more ex- 

 tensive. 



It possesses one merit, however, which a botanist will not consi- 

 der a trivial one: not one plant is inserted on ** hearsay ;" every 

 specimen was collected from the station where it grew by myself. 



nirmingham, Dec. 21, 1836. W. Ick. 



