196 THE FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 



A large form occurs on banks, Coleshill Heath, which may be 

 I'. intermedia. 

 V. lactea, Em. Smith's Dog Violet. 



Native : on heath lands. Very rare. 

 II. Kersh-y Common, S. Kirk, Spec, in Herb., Perry. 

 V. tricolor, Linn. Heartsease; Field Pansy. 



Native: In cultivated fields, fallows and railway banks. Locally 

 common. April to October. 

 I. Railway banks, Sutton Park, fields at Boldmir, Coleshill Heath, &c. 

 II. [V. Pallouxii,) Honily and Qtyton, Y. and B. ; Lighthorne, Bolton 



King; Drayton bashes, Billesley, etc. 

 V. arveiisis, Murr. Field Pansy. 



Native: In cultivated ground, on banks aud fallow fields. Very 

 common, and flowering from April to mid-winter. 



(To be continued.) 



METEOROLOGY OF THE MIDLANDS. 



THE WEATHER OF JUNE, 1881. 



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



The anticyclone of May did not break up until June 3rd, 

 hence bright settled weather and high temperature were the fea- 

 tures of the first few days, the heat wave holding until the 4th. 

 A trough came up quickly on the evcuing of that day, having its 

 centre north-east of Great Britain, and, as secondary disturbances over 

 our islands accompanied it, the conditions of summer depressions (viz., a 

 deep fall of temperature, heavy rain, and cloudy skies) became very 

 marked. Some hail also fell. Exceptionally low temperature followed 

 with the crest in the rear of this disturbance, 27-7° being registered on 

 the ground at Marlborough on the LOth. Vegetation suffered much in 

 consequence, especially in Low-lying places. Thence, until the 20th, 

 the oscillations of the barometer and thermometer were compara- 

 tively slight. On that day, the second and last great depression of the 

 month approached from the Atlantic, bringing very unsettled weather, 

 with thunderstorms in some places, and more heavy rain. Two small 

 disturbances followed, with showers, but the closing days were finer. 

 In the Staffordshire moorlands the weather was generally cold and 

 showery troin the 1th to the end, and it is worthy of notice that the 

 temperature curve for Ben Nevis coincides almost exactly, allowing 

 for the difference in altitude, with that for the moorlands district. 

 Total duration of sunshine reported from llodsock, 150 hours. Extreme 

 values from radiation instruments, solar, 138"0, terrestrial, 26*1, at 

 Burton and Leicester on the 3rd and 10th respectively. Ozone generally 

 in abundance, the mean daily amount at Buxton being 7-1, ami the full 

 amount 10'0, was registered several times in the Churnet Valley. 

 Me. hh sea temperature at Scarborough, 51 # 3°. The comet was well 

 observed at many stations. 



Notes v\ Obsbbvxbs. — Buxton. — Broom in flower on 3rd, 

 horse-chestnut on 21th. Spondon. — Butterflies far more numerous 

 m .May than June; a large quantity of white clover bloom. 

 Nottingham. Hay crop late; wheat good and forward; barley very 

 much improved towards end of month; oats not at all good. 



Uppingham.- Websofgeometrioal spider, 7th; May fly, 1th; Rosaeanina, 

 Jtnj Urdu* maculata, 8th; Malva sylvestris, 6th; Prunella vulgaris, 

 17th; Bpircea ulmaria, 24th; Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, 10th; 

 PotentiUa wruerina, 3rd. 



