208 THE FLOKA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 



This seems as truly a native iu these localities as does the 

 Mountain Ash or the Apple. Both the varieties are found in 

 the county, but I have not always discriminated between them 

 in my note book. 

 P. Malus, Linn. Crab Apple or Wild Apple. 



Native : In woods and hedges. Rare and local. April, May. 



a. acerba. Local. 



I. Sutton Park ; Coleshill Heath ; Solihull, etc. 

 II. Near Bascott Hall, Y. and B., Bascott Heath ; Bidford, etc. 



b. mitis. Rare. 



I. Near Arley Village. 

 II. Beausale Common, 1'. and 7)'., near Rugby, R.S.Ii., 1S68, 52. 

 Bascott Heath ; Claverdon ; Red Hill ; not unfrequent between 

 Bascott Heath and Southam, 187<J. 



LYTHRACE^*:. 

 LYTHRUM. 



L. Salicaria, Linn. Purple Loosestrife. 



Native : By rivers, streams, pools, etc. Locally common. July to 

 September. 

 I. Sutton Park ; Middletou Park ; Curdwoi'th Bridge ; Stonebridge ; 

 Knowle, etc. 

 II. Emscote Bridge, Perrij, Fl., 42. By the Leam and Avon, 1'. and 

 li. Honington, Tredington, iV('»-/;. Salford Priors ! Rev. J. C, 

 Stratford Canal, etc. 

 [L. hyssopifolinm, Linn. Occurred as a weed in the kitchen garden 

 of Myton House, near Warwick, Cross.] 



PEPLIS. 



P. Portula, Linn. Water Purslane. 



Native : In pools, damp woods, and heathlands. Local. July to 



September. 

 I. Coleshill Pool! Part, i., 182. Sutton Park! Freeman, PIn/t. i., 26L 



Near Chelmsley Wood ; sand quarry, near Stonebridge ; sand 



quarry, near Cornel's End ; drive by Chalcot Wood ; 



Hartshill Hayes, etc. 

 II. At the top of Spernal Lane, Purt. i., 182. Lye Green, near 



Claverdon ! 1'. and B. Kenilworth, H. B. Oversley Wood ; 



Haywoods ; Coomb Abbey Woods ; Alveston Pastures, near 



Stratford-on-Avon. 



(To be continued. ) 



METEOEOLOGY OF THE MIDLANDS 



THE WEATHER OF JULY, 1882. 



BY CLEMENT L. WRAGGE, F.R.G.S., F.M.S., ETC. 



A cold, wet, cheerless, and unsummei'like month throughout the 

 Midlands. Hay crops much retarded, ruined, or seriously damaged 

 iu parts of our district. 



