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NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
R. Hydrolapathum, Huds. Great Water Dock. 
Native : In marshes, pools, canals, and rivers. Local. July, August. 
I. Tamwortli at the foot of Bowbridge on the Coventry Road, With., 
ed. 7, ii., 455 ; meadows near Dosthill; canal near Atherstone ; 
lane from Water Orton to Minwortli. 
II. Near Bidford ! River Arrow, near Alcester ! Purt ; Hill Wootton ; 
Myton ; "Warwick; Wasperton, H. B.; Salford Priors ! Rev. J.G.; 
Binton Bridges; Oversley Mill; Bearley Canal; Tardebig 
Canal; Sowe waste canal; canals near Rugby. 
R. Aeetosa, Linn. Common Sorrel. Green Sauce. 
Native : In woods, pastures, meadows, on banks and waste places. 
Very common. May to July. Area general. 
R. Acetosella, Linn. Sheep's Sorrel. 
Native : On heath lands, railway banks, sandy fields, etc. Common. 
May, June. Area general. 
(To be continued.) 
Sapcote Boring. —Mr. Paul sends us a lengthy note on this subject, 
but as it is mainly personal and controversial, without adding a single 
new or unpublished fact, we do not feel justified in printing it. 
Badger.— On the 15th Feb., 1881, a fine female badger was met 
with and captured in the parish of Packington, Leicestershire, and is 
now in the care of the Earl of Loudoun. I cannot learn that a badger 
has been seen in the neighbourhood for the last forty or fifty years, 
until now, and consequently they were believed to be extinct. I am 
informed that this one was found whilst coursing in some fields. It 
was seen to come out of one hole and try to force itself into another, 
which it failed to do, and thus was easily secured from behind.— 
W. S. Gresley, Overseal, 19th Feb., 1884. 
Meads of Asphodel.— “ He prayeth best who loveth best all things 
both great and small,” so that there is little need to wonder at 
Kingsley’s love for beautiful blossoms. Writing from Biarritz in April, 
1864, he says, “ The hills here are covered with the true Cornish Heath, 
pale blue vernal Squills, a great white Potentilla (P. verna), and a long 
lilac flower, which seems to me a Borage or a Bugloss. There are the 
most lovely sweet-smelling purple Pinks on the rocks here, and the 
woods are full of Asphodels—great Lilies, four feet high, with white 
and purple flowers. I saw the wood yesterday where the dreadful 
fight was between the French and English, and over the place where 
all the brave men lay buried, grew one great flower bed of Asphodels. 
So they “ slept in the meads of Asphodel,” like the old Greek heroes 
in Homer. There were great “ Lords and Ladies ” (Arums) there 
growing in the bank, twice as big as ours, and not red, but white and 
primrose—most beautiful. You cannot think how beautiful the 
commons are ; they are like flower gardens, golden with Furze, and 
white with Potentilla, and crimson with Daphne, and blue with the 
most wonderful blue flower (Lithospermum) which grows everywhere, 
— Veronica , from The Garden. 
