178 midlaKd union — president's address. 



Three duties now alone I'eniaiu for me. In the first place, I must 

 thank several gentlemen who have aided me in the preparation of this 

 address, including Dr. Truman and Messrs. E. Wilson, B. S. Dodd, 

 J. S. Hedderley, and W. J. Harrison. Then I wish to offer the warmest 

 of welcomes to those visitors from the various scientific societies of 

 the Midlands who have honoured and gratified us by their presence 

 here to-day ; and, lastly, I desire to express my personal obligations to 

 this audience for the patience and courteous attention with which 

 thev have favoured me. 



THE FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS 



OF THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. 



BY JAMES E. BAGNALL. 



f Coutiiiueil j'nini puije IS!). ) 



ROSACE^E— Continued. 

 ROSA, continued. 



R. sepium, Tlutill. Small-leaved Sweethriur. 

 Native : In hedges. Very rare. June. 

 b. BilUetii, Puget. 



II. " In a small hedge-row in a pasture field near Bidford Grange,"' 

 Bree, Purt., iii., 41. " In Britain I have seen this only from 

 AUesley, in Warwickshire," Baker, Ulnn. Brit. Bases, p. 224. 

 Mr. Bloxam informed me that the late Rev. W. T. Bree trans- 

 planted the rose from Bidford to his Rectory garden at AUesley. 

 Bloxam's /«.sc/fH//(.v specimens were from this locality. 

 d. jjidvertilenta, Bieb. 



II. A single bush in a field in Cathiron Lane, near Harborougb 

 Magna ! also by the Railway Crossing in the same lane, in 

 1875 ! Eev. A . Blox. 



E. canina, Liiui. Dog Bose. 



Native : In hedges, woods, heath lands, &c. June, July. 



a. lutetiana, Lemau. Common. Area general. 



b. surctdosa. Woods. Rather rare. 



I. Marston Green ; Coleshill Bog. 



II. Barnes Green, near Coventry, T. Kirk, Herb. Brit. Mns. ; lane, 

 Aston Cantlow to Billesley ; lane iiear Exhall ; fine form, 

 with subglobose fruit, field path to Bilton Church, Rugby ; 

 Cathiron Lane ; Lutterworth Road, near Coomb Abbey ; 

 Itchington Holt. 



c. spluerica, Gren. Rare. 



I. Robust fonn in lane to New Park, Middleton ; Dosthill, in the 

 Kingsbury Road. 



II. Lane near the Golden Cross, Exhall. 

 (/. sciiticoxa, Ach. 



