THE ANKER VALLEY AND ITS FLORA. 
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the Canina group R. surculosa and R. senticosa are well repre¬ 
sented. R. Borreri , R. Reuteri , R. implexa, R. Watsoni, and 
R. dumetorum occur in various parts of the district. A form, 
which Dr. Christ named R. concinna, occurs as a single bush 
near Birch Coppice, R. Bakeri, near Shilton, but just in the 
Anker district, and R. bibvcicteata, in Gulley Gap; but the 
prevailing Bose is R. arvensis. R. spmosissima, R. Sabini , 
R. rubiginosa, and R. mollissima, all recorded from the 
Sence Valley, I have not found in the Anker district. 
Among the plants of the meadow lands the Ladies’ Mantle, 
AlchemiUa vulgaris , and the Meadow Barley, Hordeurn pratense , 
are both rare ; but Orchis morio, Colchicum officinale, Bromus 
racemosus, B. commutatus, Ophioglossum vulgatum, and Botry- 
chium lunaria, I have not observed. These are all recorded 
from the Sence Valley. 
None of our Warwickshire rivers can surpass the Anker 
in the abundance of plant inhabitants, and we see on every 
side the beautiful purple Loose-strife, Lythrum salicaria ; forest¬ 
like growths of the Beed, Rhragmites communis ; the Bulrush, 
Scirpus lacustris ; and the Beed Grass, Glyceria aquatica ; 
now and again the Arrow Head, Sagittaria sagittifolia ; the 
beautiful flowering Bush, Butomus umhellatus ; and the Water 
Betony, Stachys palustris ; the Yellow Cress, Nasturtium 
amphibium ; the Horned Pondweed, Zannichellia palustris ; 
and streaming masses of the Floating Crowfoot, Ranunculus 
fluitans. But the most noticeable, because most rare, in 
North Warwick is the Floating (Enantlie, (Knanthe jluviatilis ; 
this plant is evidently brought into this river by the small 
stream which rises near Market Drayton, as it does not occur 
anywhere in the river until we get a little above where that 
stream enters the Anker. Here it suddenly becomes abundant 
and continues at intervals on to Tamworth. In streams near 
Bole Hall. I find the opposite-leaved Pondweed, Fotamogeton 
densus , a plant not before noticed in North Warwick, and near 
Anker bridge the neglected Bur-reed, Sparganium neglectum, and 
an abundant growth of the Starwort, Callitriche obtusangula ; 
in the canals and other waters I also get Ohara fragilis, C. 
Hedwigii , Fotamogeton mucronulatus , P. zosterifolius, F. 
pusillus, Typha angustifolia , and very rarely T. latifolia. 
Carex pendula and C. Pseudo-cyperus, occur in various parts 
of the district, but the conspicuous Hemp Agrimony, Kupa- 
torium cannabinum , is, so far as I have observed, absent from 
the district. 
The foregoing will give some slight idea of the peculiarities 
noticeable in the flora of this district. 
(To be continued.) 
