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NOTES ON THE REA VALLEY. 
nutumnale, the Meadow Saffron, interesting from its peculiarity 
in putting forth its leaves, flowers, and fruit, and as being in 
bloom when most of the other flowers are faded and gone. 
One of my best stations is Lifford, with its combination of 
canal banks, canals, pools, and marshes. Among the best 
plants obtained there I would mention Nasturtium palustre, in 
abundance on the muddy shore of Capon’s Pool; Reseda 
Luteola, Viola odorata (white variety), Epilobium roseum, Sium 
angustifolium, a rather rare plant; Silaus pratensis , Senecio 
erucifolius , Stachys palustris , Rumex Hydrolapathum, Spar- 
ganium simplex , and Sparganium ramosum, the branched Bur- 
weed ; Potamogeton pectinatus , Sagittaria sagittifolia, Alisma 
Plantago, var. lanceolatum, Scirpus setaceus, rare ; and 6 'arex 
vulpina. King’s Norton, perhaps through want of more 
accurate search, has furnished nothing worthy of special note, 
but Northfield has proved a more fertile locality. Among 
many plants obtained there I select for mention Ranunculus 
aquatilis, R. sceleratus, and R. arcensis , Cardamine amara, a 
good local plant; Chelidonium majus, Lychnis vespertina, com¬ 
mon, but rare in the Bea Valley; Malba moschata, Pyrus 
mains, Circcea lutetiana, Sedum acre, Centaurea Cyanus, a 
colonist; Achillea Ptarmica, Hieracium umbellatum, rare; 
Campanula latifolia, the Giant Bell Flower, abundant and 
luxuriant on the railway bank; Convolvulus sepium, Orchis 
maculata , Listera ovata, and Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus, 
the latter a common plant which deserves special mention 
here as giving a name to a locality,—the Daffodil Fields— 
meadows on either side of the Bea, made golden by a pro¬ 
fusion of these glorious wild flowers, these early gleams of a 
returning spring. Of the grasses of this district I would 
name Air a ccespitosa, Melica uniflora, Triticum caninum, and T. 
repens. Several members of the Society also report the 
Snowdrop for this locality. Proceeding from Northfield to 
Frankley Beeches along the lanes, I cull Epilobium angusti¬ 
folium, rare in the Bea Valley ; Bryonia clioica, Tamus com¬ 
munis, Asperula odorata, Primula vulgaris, strangely rare in 
the Bea district; Epipactis latifolia, abundant in the copse of 
Frankley Beeches; and Epipactis media, nearer Bubery. 
Bubery, with its neighbouring hills, the watershed of the 
Bea, 1 have not yet worked out, but I would mention Cory- 
da-lis claviculata and Geum rivale, the Water Avens, as good 
plants, also Salix pentandra and Typha latifolia ; and from the 
“Shoulder of Mutton Hill” Lycopodium clavatum, never 
previously recorded as part of the flora of the Lickey Hills. 
The Bev. J. H. Thompson also records, for the first time, 
Melampyrum montanum, from Bednal Hill, in the year 1884. 
