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cheerful little Erophila vulgaris , and the pretty Saxifraga 
tridactylites, whilst about Brailes, Tysoe, and Whatcote, 
I have found Poa compressa, Festuca rigida , and F. myurus. 
The walls about Honington Hall are gay with the purple- 
flowered Linaria Cymbalaria, but this cannot claim to be more 
than an alien weed. 
Besides these stone fences, however, the good old Warwick¬ 
shire hedgerows are a conspicuous feature in many parts of 
the valley, and these have not only gratified my eyes with 
their beautiful hawthorn, apple, and rose blossoms, but have 
filled my vasculum to repletion with noticeable brambles, rare 
roses, and other plants of equal interest. Clematis vitalba is 
rare, I have only seen it at Oxhill; Euonymus europceus and 
Berberis vulgaris are recorded from Honington; Rhamnus 
catharticus and Ligustrum vulgare are frequent, the latter 
evidently wild. Viburnum Lantana and Crataegus oxyacanthoides 
occur at Great Wolford, Long Compton, and Barton-on-tlie 
Heath, Primus Cerasus, a single tree, near Brailes, P. avium , 
Wolford Heath, P. insititia and P. fruticans at Illmington, 
Wimpstone, and Atherstone-on-Stour, and Pyrus Aria , a single 
tree, on Wolford Heath. The protean bramble is abundant in 
many parts of this district, the ubiquitous R. discolor being- 
prevalent ; besides this I have found R. diversifolius rather 
frequent. R. rhamnifolius at Great Wolford, Burmington, 
Halford, Tysoe, and Long Compton. R. pubescens, Atherstone- 
on-Stour, Tysoe, Compton Warren, and Brailes. R. macro- 
phyllus (type), Hill Clump (P. Townsend), and Great and 
Little Wolford. R. glabratus, Compton Warren. R. echinatus, 
Compton Wynyates ! (P. Townsend), Great Wolford, Long 
Compton, and Barton-on-Heath. R. pallidus, Little Wolford 
and Brome Hill. R. ccesius, Atherstone-on-Stour, Little 
Wolford, Illmington, and Halford. Rosa tomentosa is rare, I 
have only seen it at Great Wolford. R. inodora , a very rare 
Warwickshire rose, occurs near Oxhill; but the dog-rose with 
its many forms is beautifully abundant. The robust R. sur- 
culosa grows about Oxhill, Eatington, Illmington, and Wimp¬ 
stone. R. frondosa, Lower Tysoe and Oxhill. R. tomentella 
(type) only near Whatcote. R. andegavensis, Illmington and 
Wimpstone. R. glauca, Illmington. R. subcristata, Lower 
Tysoe and Oxhill. R. Watsuni, at Oxhill, on the way for 
Whatcote. 
Whilst there is abundant evidence that that portion of the 
Stour Valley south of Brailes Hill has formerly been heath 
land, there are now no heaths such as we get in North 
Warwickshire, that is, wild wastes covered with abundant 
heather, ling, gorse, broom, and wood sage. The land has 
