25G THK FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 



GROSSULARIACEyE. 

 RIBES. 

 R. Grossularia, Linn. Gooseberry. 



Denizen : In hedges. Ratlier rare. April. 

 I. In a wood near Olton, W. B. Grove ; Sutton Park ; lanes near 

 Marston Green ; Water Orton ; in a liedj^e near Hoare Park, 

 Atherstone Road ; lane to Windmill, Packwood. 

 II. Oversley Wood, and in hedges at a distance from any house, Purt. 

 ii., 730; on the stump of a willow, by the side of the River 

 Avon, Warwick, Per. FL, 23 ; apparently wild, growing on 

 carriage road to Brown's Over, Ji. s. R., 1877 ; near Ryton-cn- 

 Duusmore ; near Pinley Green. 

 R. alpinum, Linn. Tastelens Mountain Currant, 

 Denizen : In woods. Very rare. 

 I. In a wood on the south-west side of a pool at Edgbaston, plentiful, 

 With., ed. 7, ii., 334 ; side of Edgbaston Pool, Freeman, Plnjt., i., 2()1 

 R. rubrum, Linn. Red Currant. 



Denizen : In woods and on river banks. Rare. May. 

 I. A single bush in lane out of Wheyporridge Lane, Solihull, probably 

 planted. 

 II. On the banks of the Avon, near Warwick, Rev. W. T. Bree, Purt. 

 iii., 19 ; side of the River Avon, between Emscote and War- 

 wick, Per. Fl., 22 ; Coventry Wood, Arbury Hall, Kirk, 

 PJiijt. ii., 970 ; in hedges, between Newbold-on-Avon and 

 Harboro' Magna, also in a hedge near the Lime Works near 

 Lawford, R. S. R., 1877 ; Offchurch, //. B.; Old Park and 

 River Avon, near Guy's Cliff, H. B. ; Salford, Rev. J. C. 

 R. nigrum, Linn. Black Currant. 



Alien: Damp woods, hedges and river banks. Rare. May. "We 

 obsei'ved it {R. nifjruni) in Warwick," Ray, Syn. iii., 456. 

 II. On the banks of the Arrow in the Hamlet of Oversley, Part., iii., 

 20; in a boggy spinney, called "The Alders," Arbury Deer 

 Park, Kirk, Plnjt. ii., 970 ; banks of the Sherbourne, T. Kirk, 

 Herb. Brit. 3Ius. ; Ragley Wood. 



CRASSULACE^^E. 

 SEDUM. 

 S. Telephium, Linn. Live-long or EverlaAtiny Orpine. 



Native: In pastures and woods. Rare. July. 

 II. Alne Hills, Purt. i., 218; woods, Allesley, Bree, Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 iii., 164. Chesterton Wood. 

 Although quite abundant in Chesterton Wood I have never found 

 it in flower there. 

 [S. album, Linn. White Stonecrop. 



Alien : On walls, roofs, and in quarries in marly and calcareous 

 soils. Rather rare. June. 

 II. On a wall at the back of Little Park Street, Coventry, Kirk, Plnjt. 

 ii., 970; Lighthorne, Y. and B. ; roof at Berkswell, H. B.; 

 quarry at Edge Hills, Dr. Baker ; roof of cottage at Lapworth ; 

 walls about Temple Grafton and Binton ; Edge Hills.] 

 Although admitted here this plant has no claim to a place in the 

 flora of this county iu my own estimation. 

 S. acre, Linn. Biting Stonecrop or Wall Pepper. 



Native: On walls, roofs, and like places. Local. June. 

 I. Nuneaton Abbey ; Hartshill Priory ; walls at Meriden ; walls and 

 roofs at Coleshill, &c. 

 II. Walls at Wixford ! Purt. i., 218; about Warwick! very common. 

 Per. Fl. 41 ; Salford ! Rev. J. C. : on walls and roofs about 

 Binton ; Temple Grafton, 



