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A.pingnis Dmrt. Jungermannia pinguis L., Hook. Marshy and moist 

 places, local. Near Iron Wood, Olbury, near Atherstone in good 

 fruit April, 1870. Olton, near Mill Pool ! Rowington Canal bank ! 

 Marsh, near Packington ! April. 



Purton states that this plant is common ; such, however, is not my 

 own experience. 



Pellia epiphyUa Corda. Jungermannia epiphyUa Hook., Purt. Wet, 

 shady banks, drains, bogs, &c. Very frequent, and fruiting abun- 

 dantly. March, April. 

 Purton considered this plant rare. I find it in all the woods near 

 Alcester, where he resided. 



P. cahjeina Nees. Jung. epiphyUa, c. furcigera Hook. On moist, marly 

 banks, very local, if not rare. Abundant on Rowington Canal 

 bank \ near Bentley Park ! near Shustoke ! April. 



Lunuiaria cruclata Dmrt. L. vulgaris Cooke. Moist banks and stone 

 work, local. Abundant on stonework bounding Waterworks 

 Reservoir, Aston ! Sutton Park on banks of streams ! Barren. 



Marchantia polymorpha Lin. Moist banks and in drains, frequent. On 

 burnt heath land, Sutton Park, abundantly in fruit ! Waterworks 

 Reservoir, Aston ! Shustoke ! and abundant on pots in Tropical 

 House, Aston Lower Grounds. June, July. 



Preissia hemisphcrica Cogn. P. commutata Cooke. Marchantia hemis- 

 pherica Hook. Banks of streams, rare. Stream near Blythe 

 bridge, Solihull ! Barren when found, but fruited when grown in 

 fern case. 



Conocephalus amicus Dmrt. Marchantia conica L., Hook. Fegatella 

 conica Corda., Cooke. Side of streams, damp banks, etc., frequent, 

 local in fruit. In fruit Sutton Park, near Bird-in-Hand, Henley- 

 in-Arden. March. 



Anthoceros punctatus Lin. Marly and sandy fields, local or overlooked. 

 " In a stubble field at Kinwarton." (Purt.) Field by Brown's Wood, 

 Solihull ! stubble field, near Old Park Wood, Leek Wootton, 

 abundant ! stubble field at Wishaw, abundant ! October, March. 



A. Icevis Lin. A. major Purton. " Moist, shady places, rare. Arrow, 

 August 11th, 1812." (Purt.) 



Biccia glauca Lin. Marly and sandy heaths. "Pare, Kinwarton, 

 Salford," (Purt.) Local, field by Brown's Wood, Solihull. 

 Stubble fields at Wishaw ! and Leek Wootton ! abundant, Coles- 

 hill Heath ! &c. Winter and spring, 



R. glaucescens. Carr. Banks rare. On new railway embankment, Sutton 

 Park. March, 1879. 



Ricciella fliutans Al.Hr&im. Riccia fluitans Hook., Purt., Cooke. On the 

 mud of pools and also floating, rare. " In a pond upon Alne 

 Hills," Purt., Arbury Park, T. Kirk, Coleshill Pool ! Barren. 



METEOKOLOGY OF THE MIDLANIS, 

 THE WEATHER OF OCTOBER, 1880. 



BY W. JEROME HARRISON, F.G.S. 



The total rainfall of the month was large, but nearly the whole fell 

 in two periods of two days each, viz., on the 4th and 5th, and again from 

 the 25th to the 27th ; disastrous floods were the result in many localities. 

 At Orleton the downfall of the second wet period (26th — 27th) pro- 



