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power and omniscient will, shall act in such manner as to 
evolve and perfect from the lower creations a being whose 
progression to perfection shall be in such a delicate gradient, 
that it shall be impossible for the human understanding to 
point out where the animal ceases and man begins. 
(To be continued.) 
THE FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS 
OF THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. 
BY JAMES E. BAGNALL, A.L.S. 
(Continued from page 268.) 
CRYPTOGAMIA. 
ACOTYLEDONS. 
FILICES. 
PTERIS. 
P. aquilina, Linn. Brake or Bracken. 
Native: On lieatlis, hedge hanks, and woods. Very common. 
June, July. Area general. 
LOMARIA. 
L. spicant, Desv. Hard Fern. 
Native : In woods and on damp hanks. Local. 
I. In lanes about Aston Park, With., Ed. iv., 750 (extinct); Coleshill 
Bog! Ick. Anal., 1837; Sutton Park; Trickley Coppice; New 
Park and other ^Middleton woods ; Bentley Park; Hartshill 
Hayes; Coleshill Heath ; Marston Green ; woods near Solihull; 
Olton Reservoir ; Monk’s Path, near Shirley ; Windmill Naps, 
Little Ladbrook. 
II. Heathy places on Honiley Common! Baynes ; Haseley Common, 
Perry, Phyt. i., 510; Stoke Heath Woods, T. K., Vhyt. ii., 810; 
Fern Hill! Y. and B.; near Wolston Heath, H. W. T., R.. S'. R., 
1874 ; very fine and abundant in Haywoods. 
ASPLENITJM. 
A. Ruta-muraria, Linn. Rue-leaved Spleenwort. 
Native : On old walls and ruins. Local. June to October. 
I. Aston Park Wall! Ick. Anal., 1837 ; Bickenliill Church ! Maxtoke 
Castle ! IF. T. Bree, Phyt. i., 511; ruins of Nuneaton Abbey ! 
T. K., Phyt. ii., 810; old walls about Dostliill; old walls, 
Ansley ; near Curdworth Bridge ; Water Orton Bridge; bridge 
near Castle Bromwich ; bridge at Elmdon; old walls, Mancetter 
abundant; old walls, Wilnecote, near Tamwortli. 
