l6 THK KLORA of WARWlCliSHIREi. 



11. (I'riloliina iiirlilotiix fljliriiialii^.) Hpernal, Kinwarton, Grafton, 

 I'lirt., i., iiH) ; between Warwick and Tachbrook, Pcrnj; Whit- 

 nawh, Harlmi'v, 1'. and J]. ; Kugby district, J!. S. Jl., 18()9 ; 

 Tredinj^ton ; Tvhou ; Honinj^ton ; Sbipston-ou-Stour ; Wbat- 

 cote, Ni'irb. ; Bidford ; Drayton Busbew ; Little Alne ; Bearley 

 Canal bank. 

 M. alba, Lum. White Mililot. 



Alien : On railway banlvs. Rare. July, An<^ust. 

 I. Stecbford Railway bank ; on tbc sidings of new line from Castle 

 Broniwicb to Sutton I'ark, 187H-1SO, becoming quite sbrubby 

 bere ; a few plants at Four Oaks in 1874. 

 II. Near Emscote Mill, H. Jl. 

 M. arvensis, ]raUr. Field ilelilot. 



Casual : On waste places and waysides, &c. Rare. June, July. 

 I. Waste stony places in a lane near Bodmir, 187-5, abundant ; in 

 Sutton Park on waste spots, near the new railway banks. 

 II. Warwick Stone Quarry, and Castle walls, 11.11. ; a few plants Ijy 

 tbe side of a field near to tbe allotments, Honington, Neicb. ; a 

 few plants on waysides, near Wixford, 1872. 

 IM. jxirrijlora, Lam., has occurred as a casual on the canal bank 

 near Olton, and in potato fields and waste places, Kenilworth. j 

 (To be cotiVuiued.) 



METEOROLOGY OF THE MIDLANDS 

 THE WEATHER OF NOVEMBER, 1881. 



BY CLEMENT L. WEAGGE, F.K.G.S., F.M.S., ETC. 



The ineteorological conditions of this month were very remarkable ; 

 the abnormally high temperature and barometric depressions and gales 

 calling for special notice. So unusually mild was the weather, that 

 the violets forget-me-nots, daisies, etc., were in full bloom — lowering 

 November seemed running its length, joined hand in hand with 

 blushing May. At Orleton no temperature so high vi^as recorded within 

 the last twenty-tive years, and tbe mean temperature was more than 

 6° above the average of tbe last twenty years. That the atmosphere 

 of northern latitudes was generally in an extraordinarily unsettled 

 condition, and that a remarkable main disturbance covered a wide area 

 of the earth's surface, is sufficiently proved by the depressions and 

 consequent gales of the last part of the month, with the low crests of 

 pressure intervenmg. Over the moorlands of North Staffordshire the 

 south-west wind accompanying the great depression of the 27th 

 travelled with a velocity of fully 70 miles per hour, Beaufort scale, as 

 recorded by two practised and experienced observers. The rainfall 

 was much about tbe average. Duration of sunshine at Hodsock, 62 

 honrs, and at Aspley Guise, Woburn, 74 hours. Mean sea temperature 

 at Scarborough, 47"5. 



NoTKS BY Observkks. — Clu'lteiiliaiii. — Roses, stocks, violets, and wall- 

 flowers in full bloom, and Clemati.s JaclvKinii putting forth spring 

 shoots. More Rectory. — Blossom of gooseberry, raspberry, etc., fornjing. 

 No winter birds seen. Ditdleij. — Spring flowers blooming. Deiiiiis. — 

 Roses, primroses, pansies, Ac, in bloom. Henh'i/-in-Ardc'ii. — Mean 

 temperature 47-;S, 7-ii higher than mean of the ten previous years. 

 Spoiulo)!.— Crocus, snowdrop, and narcissus already above the ground. 

 Kihwortli. — During tbe month we have gathered roses, stocks, wall- 

 flowers, cowslips, polyanthus, forget-me-nots, mignonnette, double 

 daisies aud violets. WaUhain-le-Wold. — Many wild flowers in bloom. 



