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THE FLORA OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
EQUISETACEvE. 
EQTJISETUM. 
E. arvense, Linn. Corn-field Horsetail. 
Native : On damp lieatbs, heathy roadsides, hanks and fields. 
Common. March, April. Area general. 
E. maximum, Linn. Great Water Horsetail. 
Native: Near rivers and in damp places and woods. Itare. May, 
June. 
I. In a marshy copse, Edgbaston, W. Southall ; Kingsbury Wood, 
abundant; Bentley Park, near Atherstone, abundant, 1883-84. 
II. River Avon; Nicholas Meadow, Perry FI, 80. In a marshy 
situation ; Arbury Hall ! Kirk Phyt. ii., 810 ; Wroxall, Y. and 
B; Pit near Lawford Road, Rugby, Blox. B.S.R., 1867; 
abundant, canal siding near Ansty, 1884. 
E. sylvaticum, Linn. Wood Horsetail . 
Native : In woods and damp pastures. Rather rare. April, May. 
I. About and in New Park! Middleton, near Tamworth, Bay Cat., 
100; near Botanic Gardens, W. Southall, Phyt. i., 511; near 
Elmdon, Cameron, Phyt. i., 555 ; Trickley Coppice, Middleton ; 
Kingsbury Wood; Bentley Park, near Atherstone ; Frogmore 
Wood, near Temple Balsall; Earlswood Reservoir. 
II. Boggy ground in Grafton Field, Purt. i., 501 ; on the borders of a 
wood, and in a cornfield near Arbury Hall, T. Kirk, Phyt. i., 
972; near Norton Lindsay, II. Brovncich, Burton Green; 
Kenilworth, Y. and B. 
E. palustre, Linn. Marsh Horsetail. 
Native: On damp heaths, in marshes and on other damp places. 
Local. June to September. 
I. Elmdon, Southall; Phyt., i., 512 ; Sutton Park ; near Bannersley 
Pool; Coleshill Pool; near Solihull; Earlswood. 
II. Exhall, Purt. ii., 501 ; boggy field at Norbrooke, Perry FI., 80 ; near 
Budbrook Field, Warwick, Ferry ; meadows at the Woodloes ! 
and Bubbenhall ; Stoke, Baly Phyt., i., 512 ; near Harborougli 
Magna, Blox. M.S. ; old canal between Newbold and Little 
Harborougli! pond near Cawston, B.S.ll., 1877; Beausale ! 
Y. and B. 
E. limosum, Linn. Smooth Naked-horsetail. 
Native : In pools, marshes, rivers, and canals. Rather local. June 
to September. 
I. Coleshill Pool! mill pool, Bristol Road, Cameron; Bannersley 
Pool! Murcott Phyt., i., 512; Sutton Park! Middleton Pool, 
near Tamworth ; Kingsbury; Bentley Park, near Atherstone ; 
Oldbury Reservoir; Seas Pool, Arbury; Olton Pool, near 
Solihull; Earlswood. 
II. Studley, Purt., ii., 510 ; windmill field, near Haseley, Perry FI., 81; 
St. Nicholas’Meadow, Warwick ; Chesterton Mill Pool! near 
Oldham’s Mill, Leamington, Perry ; several pits in Warwick 
Old Park, Murcott Phyt., i., 512 ; Wroxall, Y. and B.; Sowe 
Waste Canal. 
b. fiuviatile, Linn. Rather rare. 
I. Copse, near Elmdon, Cameron Phyt. i., 555 ; Sutton Park; ditches, 
Kingsbury ; near Bentley Park; Oldbury Reservoir; Seas 
Pool, Arbury ; near Solihull; near Shirley; Earlswood Reser¬ 
voir ; pool, near Forshaw Park. 
