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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 
HORDETJM. 
H. pratense, Huds. Meadow Barley. 
Native: In pastures and grassy roadsides. Rare and local. July, 
August. 
I. Pastures near Curdworth ; pastures near Stonebridge ; meadows 
near Blythe Bridge, Solihull ; Braduock’s Marsh. 
II. Bishop’s Itcliington, Y. and B.; Honington ; Tredington, Newb. ; 
Holbrook Park, R.S.R., 1877 ; pastures near Kineton ; Moreton 
Morrell ; Alveston ; Stratford-on-Avon ; Binton ; Exliall; 
Oversley ; Billesley ; Great Alne; Wilmcote ; Henley-in- 
Arden ; Combe Fields, near Rugby; Birdingbury; Shuck- 
burgh ; Willoughby. 
H. murinum, Linn. Wall Barley. 
Native : On dry banks, by roadsides, more especially by towns and 
villages. Locally common. June to August. 
I. Sutton Coldfield ; Minworth ; Curdworth ; Olton canal bank ; 
II. Warwick! Myton! Kenilworth! Emscote, IT.B.; Honington! 
Tredington ! Newb.; Alveston Heath; Stratford-on-Avon ; 
Binton ; Wixford ; Salford Priors ; Oversley ; Drayton; 
Wootton Wawen ; Lillington; Rugby; Radford Semele; 
Long Itchington. 
Very local and sparse in district I. 
NARDUS. 
N. stricta, Linn. Mat Grass. 
Native: On damp heaths, and heathy roadsides. Rare. May to 
July. 
I. Sutton Coldfield ! Ick. Anal., 1837 ; Coleshill Heath ! Perry FI. ; 
Middleton Heath ; Coleshill Pool; pasture, Blythe Bridge ; 
pasture by Olton Pool; Marston Green ; Baddesley Common ; 
abundant, Forsliaw Heath, near Tan worth. 
II. Studley Common, Part., i., 66; Haseley Common, Y. and B.; 
Kenilworth Heath ! II. B.; Yarningal Common. 
(To be continued.) 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.— July, 1885. 
The barometer was generally high during the month, the mean, 
30T81 inches, being higher than that of July in any of the last six 
years, and the highest since January, 1882. The greatest pi-essure was 
on the 22nd, 30-453 inches; the least, on the 19th, 29’786 inches. 
Temperature was about 1 degree above the average, but the maxima 
were unusually high. The highest readings were on the 25tli, when 
90-0° was recorded at Henley-in-Arden, 89-2° at Loughborough, 87'2° 
at Strelley, 86-0° at Hodsock, and 85-0° at Coston Rectory. 89‘7° was 
registered at Loughborough on the 5th of July, 1881. In the rays of 
the sun, 141-2° at Loughborough on the 26th, 135-2° at Strelley on the 
19th, and 133 - 7° at Hodsock on the 26tli. The lowest minimum 
readings were 38-0° at Coston Rectory on the 2nd, and at Henley-in- 
