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ALCHEMILLA. 

 A. arvensis, Scop. Field Ladiea' Mantle. 



Native : In fields and on heathy waysides, etc. Common. April 

 to August. Area general. 

 A. vulgaris, Linn. Common Ladie'^' Mantle. 



Native : In pastures and on waysides, etc. Local. April to August. 

 I. Tanworth, Fart., i., 102 ; Coleshill Heath ; Ballard's Green, Arley ; 

 Hampton-in-Arden ; Bentley Heath, etc. 

 II. Overslev, Pm/7., i., 102 ; Wroxall ; Budbrook, Y.andB.; near Law- 

 ford, R. S. R., 1877 ; Iddicote, Rev. J. Gorle ; High Cross, etc. 

 The variety b, montana, Willd. appears to be the most frequent 

 form in the county. 



POTENTILLA. 

 P. Fragariastrum, Ehrh. Barren Strdu-herri/. 



Native : On dry banks, in woods, and on waste places. Common. 

 March to June. Area general. 

 P. Tormentilla, Srlienk. Common Tormentil. 



Native : On heaths, banks, and in woods, f'ommon. May to 

 August. Area general. 

 P. procumbens, Sihth. Creeping Tormentil. 



Native : On heath lands, woods, and bushy places. Rare. May to 

 Augi^st. 

 T. Coleshill Heath ; Shelly,* near Solihull ; Four Ashes.* 

 II. King's Lane, near Stratford-on-Avon ; Hampton-on-the-Hill, Herlt. 

 Per. ; Rounshill Lane ! Itchington Holt ; Highdown, Tach- 

 brook, H. B. 

 * The fonn from these localities is probably P. mixta, Nolte. 

 P. reptans, Finn. Creeping Cinque/oil. 



Native : On marly banks, heathy waysides, etc. Locally common. 

 May to September. 

 I. Sutton Park ; Coleshill Heath ; Hampton-in-Arden, etc. 

 II. Warwick, Perry Fl., 44 ; Honington, Ti-edington, Willington, Newb. ; 

 Whatcote, Rev. J. Gorle ; Drayton Bushes. 

 A variety having four petals occurs near Water Orton, on gravelly 

 waysides ; it does not otherwise differ from the tj-pe. 

 P. anserina, Linn. Silver Weed. 



Native : On damp, sandy waysides. Common. May to August. 

 Area general. 

 P. argentea. Linn. Iloarij Cinquefoil. 



Native : On heathy and sandy places. Rare. 

 I. Coleshill Heath, Bree. Furt.. iii., 40. 

 II. On a sand-rock near the Woodloes ! Pern/ FL, 44, Griff Hollows, 

 Kirk, Herb. Per. ; Gaveston Hill, H. B. 



{To be continued.) 



THE MINERALS OF THE MIDLANDS. 



BY C. .T. WOODWARD, B.SC. 



I am indebted to a Nottingham correspondent for a statement 

 that he has found Galena near the town, in Permian Limestone, 

 and also that in the Cresswell Crags occur dendritic markings, 

 probably of Manganese. 



The following paper, read before tiie Chemical Societ}-, (see 

 Journal, 1876, vol. i., p. 154,) is not, I think, much known, so I give 

 it here nearly in full : — 



