NOTES RESPECTING SOME BIRMINGHAM PLANTS. 
By James BAGNALL. 
the district. Cot ilicus I find abundant on the old ruins of a 
riory near Coleshill (recorded here in 1818) m Ferns are rare, 
Asplenium Trichomanes oc only in isolated tufts at wide intervals, 
occur. Plantago media, however, crops up in one limited area, very 
found is usually abundant. Malva sylvestris and M. moschata are bot 
well represented ; but M. rotundifolia is remarkably rare. " 
our old roads and in wild lanes, Convolvulus arvensis is very abundant. he 
marly soils we get Primula vulgaris very plentiful, and many of t 
meadows are yellow over with Primula veris; Symphytum officinale, how- 
ever, 1s very local, and seems to be dyin P. 
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Argemone is only occasional, and never abundant; but +- 
