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THE FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
distributed over from 21 to 24 days. The amounts measured in 24 
hours were exceptionally large, particularly on the 23rd, when 1-67 
inches were registered at Hodsock; 156 inches at Strelley; 1-54 inches 
at Coston Rectory; and P24 inches at Loughborough ; 0‘75 of an inch 
at Henley-in Arden, on the 6th. Sunshine was about the average. 
High winds prevailed generally through the month. 
Wm. Beriudge, F. R. Met. Soc. 
12, Victoria Street, Loughborough. 
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 295.) 
CRYPTOGAMIA. 
ACOTYLEDONS. 
FILICES. 
POLYPODIUM. 
P. vulgare, Linn. Common Polypody. 
Native : On mossy banks, on the branches of old trees, and rarely 
on old walls. Locally common. June to October. 
I. Sutton Park; Colesliill Heath ; lanes about Maxtoke and Fil- 
longley ; Marston Green, Olton Lane; lanes about Knowle, 
Solihull, Honiley, Shirley, and Hockley ; Forsliaw Heath. 
II. On a bank near Meriden Church, Kirk, Phyt., ii.,809 ; near Norton 
Lindsay, Perry, Pliyt., i., 510 ; lanes about Allesley ; Corley ; 
Tile Hill; lanes about Baddesley Clinton ; Rowington. 
OSMUNDA. 
0. regalis, Linn. Royal or Flowering Fern. 
Native: In bogs and on river banks. Very rare. July. 
I. Moist banks by the new park, Middleton, Ray, Gough's Carnb., ii., 
350; bog at Colesliill Pool, Bree, Part., ii., 518.* Found 
formerly at Coleshill Heath and other places, but I cannot 
find it now. Sutton Park, as I am informed, but very spar¬ 
ingly, Bree, Phyt., i., 511. Extirpated in Sutton Park many 
years since. It has been recorded from near Marston Green 
and by the Blythe, near Coleshill, but on uncertain authority. 
* “ It must be near thirty years ago that I saw and gathered a 
single specimen, and that a weak one, of Lycopodium selago, and also 
of Osmunda regalis, in the bog below Coleshill Pool ; but repeated 
search has never subsequently been rewarded by another specimen of 
either plant in that situation.” — Bree, Mag. Nat. Hist., v. 199, 1832. 
