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NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
BOTANICAL NOTES FROM SOUTH BEDS, 
WITH VOUCHER SPECIMENS. 
Name. 
Date 
1886. 
Date 
1885. 
As¬ 
pect. 
1886. 
Soil, Situation, &c. 
1886. 
Corylus avellana . 
Feb. 14 
Feb. 1 
N. 
Hedge. Pistillate fl. 
only open. 
Mercurialis perennis.. .. 
„ 14 
Jan. 4 
N. 
Bank. 
Daphne laureola . 
„ 28 
— 
W. 
Under trees. 
Helleborus viridis. 
„ 28 
Feb. 15 
Open 
Meadow. Inflores¬ 
cence & foliage only. 
Tussilago farfara . 
Mar. 7 
Feb. 8 
S. 
Railway bank. Same 
station both years. 
In 1884 the date 
was Jan. 12th. 
Ulmus montana. 
„ 28 
— 
Open 
Hedge-row. 
Anemone pulsatilla .... 
April 4 
Apl. 12 
— 
Lower chalk escarp¬ 
ment. 
Viola odorata. 
„ 4 
— 
— 
Bank. 
Potentilla fragariastrum 
„ 4 
Mar. 15 
Open 
Wood. 
Anemone nemorosa .... 
„ 4 
„ 15 
9 9 
9 9 
Caltha palustris. 
„ 4 
„ 27 
99 
Meadow. 
Ranunculus ficaria .... 
„ 4 
„ 8 
9 9 
Wood. March 6th 
in 1884. 
Salix capraea . 
„ 4 
» 8 
9 9 
Wood. 
Petasites vulgaris. 
„ 7 
April 3 
99 
Moist meadow.Many 
dowers in 1886, very 
few 1885. 
Adoxa moschatellina .. 
„ 11 
Mar. 22 
S. 
Bank. Plentiful. 
Prunus spinosa. 
„ 23 
Apl. 12 
w. 
Hedge. 
Eepeta gleclioma . 
„ 23 
„ 3 
s. w. 
Warm bank. 
Ranunculus auricomus 
„ 23 
„ 28 
w. 
Orchis mascula. 
May 16 
May 5 
Open 
Moist meadow. 
Geranium robertianum 
„ 23 
„ 28 
9 9 
Coppice, a few yards 
over the county 
border in Herts. 
Crataegus monogyna.... 
„ 23 
„ 17 
99 
Hedge. 
The retardation of vegetation by the extreme cold of the winter 
months was most noticeable in the earlier spring flowers. Tussilago 
farfara has been observed in the same station for six or seven years, 
and was several weeks later than in any of those seasons. 
James Saunders, Luton. 
Flora of Warwickshire.— On the 14th of August I found, in a 
copse on the border of Packington Park, a large number of plants of 
Agrimonia which at once arrested attention by their unusual height. 
On measurement I found that they varied between 4ft. and 6ft., some 
of them even exceeding the latter height. At that time none of the 
fruits were ripe, but paying a visit to the same locality about a fortnight 
afterwards I found the ripe fruits to agree with the characters of 
A. odoratci. This is the first record of this rare plant for North 
Warwickshire. In the same copse also Genista tinctoria was growing. 
—W. B. Grove. 
