THE FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE . 57 



By the kindness of Canon Young, I was allowed to revise the proof 

 sheets of this catalogue, and to make many additions. This list is a 

 record of the observations of the compilers, the Rev. A. Bloxam, 

 Henry Bromwich, the Rugby School Natural History Society, and 

 myself, and is the most complete list yet given of the plants found 

 in Warwickshire since the publication of the Midland Flora. The 

 above was afterwards issued as a separate publication, and is, I believe, 

 still to be had. 



In the various reports of the Rugby School Society, published from 

 1867 to 1879, valuable information has been given on the Flora of that 

 part of Warwickshire immediately around Rugby. Many of the 

 botanists of this Society were good and reliable ones, and as they had 

 until recent years the constant aid in all difficult matters of that most 

 able, amiable, and courteous of Warwickshire botanists, the Rev. 

 Andrew Bloxam, these lists are of permanent value. By the kindness 

 of Mr. Trott, such vo nines as were not in my possession were 

 forwarded to me, and I have availed myself of the information 

 contained in these freely. 



In 1877, the Rugby School Natural History Society published a very 

 complete register of the flowering plants and ferns, from observations 

 extending over five years, which will be quoted with other reports as 

 occasion serves. 



In 1877, the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 

 Society published " Notes on Sutton Park and its Flora," to which is 

 added " The Rubi and Rosae of Warwickshire,"' by James E. Bagnall. 

 In this, all the plants, both rare and common, to be found in this 

 portion of the county were noticed. 



In Mr. Hewett C. Watson's " Topographical Botany," and also in 

 •• The Compendium of the Cybele Britannica," by the same author, 

 many references occur relative to Warwickshire plants. Besides the 

 above-mentioned works, occasional notices, bearing on the Flora of 

 this county, have appeared in the " Journal of Botany — 1863 — 1880;" 

 but no paper of any great importance occurs on the flowering plants. 

 The yearly reports of the London Botanical Exchange Club and of the 

 Botanical Record Club both contain notices of plants collected in this 

 county. 



(To be continued.) 



A PICTURE IN THE KOSMOS. 



The evening of the 31st of January, 1881, will long be remembered 

 by all hereabouts who delight in the beauties of creation. A baro- 

 metric trough from the Atlantic was passing briskly away to eastward, 

 with gentle westerly airs, veering west-north-west, playing round its 

 Bouthern aide, resulting in clearing skies, air becoming drier, diather- 

 mancy increasing ; hence free radiation and a crisping soil. Low in 



