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it has clearly been precipitated from a state of solution, and, being 

 itself insoluble, it must have been formed by the decomposition of 

 carbonate or silicate of barvta by soluble sulphates. Bisulphurets 

 abound, ijenerally as pyrites ; arseniatus, south-west of the Midsummer 

 Hill, and in the Kagt^ed Stone ; fluorides, in the trap dykes and lava 

 beds, most abundantly in those of recent formation, as the bosses in 

 the field near Fowlett's Farm." 



THE FLOEA OF WAEWICKSHIKE. 

 ACCOUNT OF THE FLOWEEING PLANTS AND FEENS 

 OF THE COUNTY OF WAEWICK. 



BY JAMES E. BAGNALL. 



(Continued from "page 181. j 



ROSACE./E— Continued . 

 PYRTIS. 

 P. torminalis, Elirh. Wild Service tree. 

 Native : In hedges. Eare. June. 

 I. Two or three trees in the foot road from Olton to Elmdon. 

 II. On the footway to Mr. Petford's, Alcester Park, Part! 230. 

 Claverdou, Bree, 2Iafj. Nat. Hi^t., iii., 164; Great Alne ; 

 Oversley Wood. 

 P. Aria, Hooker. Common Wlnteheam. 



Native (?) : In hedges and woods. Eare. June. 



I. Sutton Park, near Bracebridge and Blackroot Pools, Upper Nut- 



hurst ; Marston Green. 

 II. Ipsley ! pointed out in several hedges about here by Mr. T. J. 

 Blatter, but has not been seen in flower in this district. 

 Bascott Heath ; Ufton Wood ; AUesley. 

 I sti'ongly doubt this tree being a native in any locality in which 

 I have seen it in this county. 

 P. rupicola, Si/me, E.B. 



Denizen : In hedges. Very i-are. June, July. 



II. A tine tree in the lane from Billesley to Eed Hill, in good flower 



and fruit, 1873. I think it is an introduced plant in this 

 locality. 

 [P. pinnatijida. Sm. Several trees of this species near the Great 

 Western Eailway Station, Leamington ; all, however, have 

 been planted there]. 

 P. Aucuparia, Gaert. Jlonntniu Axii. 



Native : In woods and hedges. Locally common. May, June. 

 I. Frequent in Sutton Park, springing up abundantly in the woods ; 

 New Park ; Trickley ; woods at Solihull, etc. 

 II. "It is very common in our woods here (Allesley), and, I believe, 

 most other places." — Rev. W. T. Bree, Purt. iii., 361, Note. 

 Hatton ; Haywoods ! i'. and B. Oversley Wood, etc. 

 P. communis, Liiai. Wild Pear. 



Denizen : In woods and hedges. Eather rare. May. 

 II. Great Alne! Kinwarton I Purt. i.,2ii7. Hamptonon-the-Hill, /'er. 

 FL, 43 ; Whitnash pastures, //. Bromicicli, Herb. Brit. Mus.; 

 Tachbi-ook, Eowingtou, Y. and B.; Stivichali ; near Arbury, 

 T. K., Piiyt. ii., 9U0 ; near Arrow ; Alcester ; Eed Hill ; 

 Spernall Ash ; Drayton Eou'.^h Mi)ors; Pinley ; liascott Heath ; 

 near Pillerton. 



