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BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS. 
Jan., 1891 . 
BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS, 
WITH VOUCHER SPECIMENS. 
The earliest observed dates of the flowering of the species enumerated 
below are as follows:— 
Name 
Date. 
Aspect. 
Situation, &c. 
Corylus Avellana 
1889. 
Dec. 25 
Open 
Hilltop. Pistillate flowers only 
Ditto ditto .. 
1890. 
Jan. 12 
99 
Same station. Both male 
Mercurialis perennis 
„ 12 
N.E. 
and female plentifully. 
Shrubbery. Inflorescence only 
Ditto ditto .. 
» 26 
Open 
Meadow. Male flowers only. 
Petasites vulgaris 
.. 26 
99 
Meadow. Several plants in 
Tussilago Farfara 
>. 26 
w. 
blossom. 
Railway bank. One blossom. 
Ditto ditto .. 
Feb. 1 
s.w. 
G. N. R. bank. Several 
Ranunculus Ficaria 
„ 9 
Open 
blossoms. 
Meadow. One blossom. 
Prunus spinosa.. 
„ 23 
99 
A few poor blossoms. 
Cardamine hirsuta 
Mar. 9 
W. 
Brook side. Fairly abundant. 
Ranunculus Ficaria 
„ 9 
Open 
Same station as above, and 
Salix caprea 
„ 16 
?) 
only fairly abundant till 
this date. 
Coppice.Both sexes in blossom 
Anemone nemorosa 
„ 29 
* * 
Plentiful. 
Yiola Riviniana * 
„ 29 
W. 
Hill side. 
Nepeta Glechoma 
30 
S.W. 
Bank. 
Prunus spinosa 
„ 30 
Open 
Fairly abundant by this date. 
Caltha palustris 
30 
99 
Meadow. Two blossoms. 
Equisetum arvense 
Anr. 20 
99 
Hill side. 
Prunus avium .. 
„ 27 
W. 
Hill side. Plentiful. 
Scilla nutans .. 
May 4 
Open 
Meadow. 
Sisymbrium Alliaria 
„ 4 
W. 
Railway bank. Plentiful. 
Ranunculus auricomus 
„ 4 
Open 
Meadow. Plentiful. 
Carex glauca .. 
„ 4 
N.W. 
Hill side. 
Barbarea vulgaris 
„ 11 
S.W. 
Brook side. 
Crataegus monogyna 
14 
Open 
Hedge. 
Sanicula europaea 
„ 18 
»> 
Spinny. 
J. Saunders, Luton. 
•The voucher specimen enclosed was Viola hirta .— Eds. “ Midland 
Naturalist.” 
THE FUNGI OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
BY W. B. GROVE, M.A., AND J. E. BAGNALL, A.L.S. 
( Continued from Vol. XIII., page 282.) 
442. R. fcetens, Fr. Woods and roadsides. Sometimes 
fragrant. Oct. Warwick, Perceval . Crackley Wood 
and The Briars, Kenilworth, Russell, Illustr. Ansty, 
Adams. School Close, Rugby Sch. Rep. Water’s Wood, 
Maxstoke; Kingsbury Wood; Trickley Coppice; Solihull: 
Sutton Park; Berks well; Fen End; Edgbaston Park; 
Coleshill Pool; Packington; Stoneleigli Abbey; Spernall. 
