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I. Meadow path, Baulk Lane, Berkswell ; fide Dr. Christ. 

 II. Chesterton Wood, ILB., Herb. Brit. Jltin. Haseler Common, II.B. 

 Rowington ; Pinley Green. 

 e. syh^entris, Woods. Rare. 

 I. Near Shustoke. 

 II. In the churchyard at Harborough Magna and in the Rectory 

 garden, planted by Rev. A. Bloxam ; Chesterton Wood ! Wel- 

 lesbourne Hastings! H.B.; near Harborough Magna ! Rev. A. 

 BI0.V. ; lane from Yarningale Common. Dr. Christ refers the 

 specimen from the last four localities to R. fcetida, Bast. The 

 plant in the churchyard at Harborough Magna is the true 

 plant ; the roots are from North Wales. 

 Var. DeseglUei, from Rugby, and var. cusjndata, from near Ather- 

 stone, are both in Mr. Bloxam's fasciculus of British Roses. I 

 should refer the specimens I possess to R. fcetida. Bast. 

 E. rubiginosa. Linn. Efilantine, Sweet Briar. 



Native : In hedges and bushy places. Rare. June, July. 

 I. Coleshill Heath ; meadow path from Solihull to Blythe Bridge. 

 II. Alne Hills, above the village, /'art., i., 248 : Hampton-onthe-Hill ; 

 Crackley Wood, near Kenilworth ; Yarningale Common, H.B.; 

 Salford Priors, Rev. J. C. ; Bushy common, Billesley. 

 R. micrantlia, Sm. Small-flowered -lueet Briar. 



Native : In woods and hedges. Local. June, July. 

 I. Shustoke ; lane from Knowle to Hampton-in-Arden ; a small neat- 

 leaved form in Wheyporridge lane, Solihull ; Coleshill Heath. 

 II. Between Bidford and the Grange, at Allesley, Rev. W. T. Bree, 

 Pitrt., iii., 40 ; Norton Lindsay, Chesterton Wood, Morton 

 Morrell, II. B.; Bishop's Green, Lighthorne, Bolton Kim]; 

 Shortwood Coppice, near Tardebig: Ragley Woods; heathy 

 pastures, Billesley ; Drayton Bushes ; Oakley : Wroxall ; 

 Itchington Holt, abundant. 

 [b. Briggsii, Baker. Two or three bushes of this occur in Har- 

 borough Magna churchyard and one bush in the Rectory 

 garden ; these are grown from seeds set by the late Rev. A. 

 Bloxam, sent to him by Mr. T. R. A. Briggs! These 

 plants prove that this variety maintains its varietal characters 

 true from seeds. j 

 c. hy.stri.T, Leman. Very rare. 

 II. Heathy pastures, Billesley, named for me by Dr. Christ, 1880. 

 (To be continued.) 



MIDLAND UNION OF NATUKAL HISTOEY SOCIETIES.* 



{Continued from page 114.) 

 The Nottingham Literary and Philosophical Society was founded 

 in 1865, the inaugural meeting being held on the '23rd March of that 

 year. It numbered 207 Members on 1st January, 1881, 90 being 

 Members paying annual subscriptions of 21s., 98 Associates, of whom 

 part pay 15s., and the remainder 10s. annually, and 19 Section- 

 associates, each paying 5s. or 2s. Cd. annually. The ordinary meetings 

 are held every alternate Thursday from the commencement of October 

 to the end of March. Sectional meetings are held in addition. 

 There are two excursions open to all the Members made annually in 

 the summer. Excursions are also made by the sections for field work. 

 Ten papers have peen read before the Society during the past twelve 



* Tho accoinpauyiug particulars of the Societies are printed from the Iteport 

 of the Council presented to the .Vnuual Meetinp; at Cheltenham, held last year. 



