76 CRYPTOGAiVnC FLORA OF W.\IIWICKSHIRE. 



Var. patnlum Schimp. On elevated grassy places, rare, gi'owing 

 in smaller, looser tufts, oi: a pale green colour, ajjpareutly rare in 

 fruit. Fruiting in Autumn. Sutton Park ! near most of the 

 streams. Coleshill Bog ! July, August. 



2. — S. fimhriatum Wils. Ii. marshes and hogs, rare. Sutton Park ! 

 in marshy ground above Blackroot Pool, destroyed by railvpay 

 embankment in 1876, not found there since. Marshy ground in 

 Beutley Park, near Atherstone, 1878 ! July. 



4. — S. squarrosinn Pers. Boggy places, rare. Sutton Park ! near 



Bracebridge ! Blackroot! "Windley! and Powell's Pools! readily 



known by its very squarrose leaves. July, August. 



Var. b. teres Angst. Marshes, rare. In marsh by Windley Pool, 



Sutton Park! 1876.* 



7. — S. intermedium Hoffm. S. recurvum, Beauv., Hobk., Berk. 

 S. ciispidatum, h. recurvum Wils. In bogs and marshes, very 

 variable, local, rare in fruit. Abundant in Sutton Park ! but 

 usually barren. Coleshill Bog! fruiting. Trickley Coppice, in 

 drains ! July. 



8. — S. cuspidatum Ehrh. Near streams, rare. In a drain in Trickley 

 Coppice ! 



11. — S. subsecundum Nees. S. contortinn, b. suhsecundum Wils. Turfy 



bogs, marshes, local. Sutton Park! Coleshill Bog! Haywoods, in 



first drive below Woodman's cottage ! Spring Wood, near Hockley 



Cut-throat Coppice, near SohhuU ! July! 



Var. b. contortum Schultz. S. contortum Wils., Berk., Hobk. 



In marshes. Dogs, and watery places, local, rare in fruit. Sutton 



Park frequent! Coleshill Pool! Coleshill Bog! Arley Wood! 



Bannersly Pool ! Drive by Chalcote Wood ! Cut-throat Coppice, 



near Solihull ! In fruit in a sinall bog, near Great Packiugtou. 



Var. b. contoi'tum, forma rufescens, Nees and Hsch. occurs in 



small pools in bog, near Packmgton Park ! July. 



Var. c. turgidum 3Iull. S. contortum, c. obesum Wils., Hobk. In 



small pools, bog near Pacldngton Park ! In bogs above Blackroot 



Pool, Sutton Park ! 



Var. d. auriculatum Lind. In drains and wet bogs, rare. Above 



Blackroot Pool ! Pool Hollies Wood ! near Long Moor Mill Pool in 



di-ains ! Sutton Park. 



13. — S. rubcllumWils. Elevated places in bogs, rare. On the turfy tufts 

 formed by Molinia ccerulea in Coleshill Bog ! fruiting in July. Dr. 

 Braithwaite puts this as a variety of S. acutifolium in his Sphag- 

 uacese Britanuicas Exsiccata3, No. 36, as I think correctly. July. 



16. — S. papillosum Lind. Var. b. confertum. In bogs and near 

 streams, rare. Sutton Park ! fruiting in bog above Blackroot Pool 1 

 near stream above Bracebridge Pool ! Pool HoUies Wood ! July. 



17. — S. cyynbifolium Ehrh. In bogs and naarshes. S. latifolium 

 E. B., 1405. Coughton Lane ; Purt. Vol. II. The most frequent 

 Warwickshire species ; rare in fruit. Sutton Park ! abundant, 

 fruiting in Pool Hollies, 1875 ! Poor's Wood, Honily ! Brown's 

 Wood, near Solihull ! Arley Wood ! Trickley Coppice ! New Park, 

 Middleton ! Coleshill Bog, fruiting 1876 ! bog near Packington 

 Park ! in quarry near Cornels End, fruiting ! Fruits, Autumn. 



* I am somewhat in doubt as to the plant I find here being the true S. teref 



Angst.) 



