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tHE ELuKA WAKWICKSHIKE. 
G. anglicum, Huds. SvutJl Tjudloi' BoAUtraw. Small Goose-prass. 
Native: “ On wallsandy ground. Rare. July.” 
II. “ On high ground in Oversley Wood,” Purl., i., 97. 
Although I have made special search for this plant on all the 
high ground in and near Oversley Wood, I have not been able 
to find it. I found an abundance of a tall form of G. mxatile. 
This Purton does not record. 
G. Aparine, Linn. Common Goose-prass, Cleavers. 
Native: In hedges, woods, and as a weed in arable land. 
Common. May to September. Area general. 
The plant is better known among the peasantry by the name of 
Haprif or Herrif. According to Prior this is derived from the 
A.-S. hepe., hedge; and reafa, a tax-gatherer or robber, so 
called, we may suppose, from its plucking wool from passing 
sheep. It is in much repute as a diuretic. 
G. tricorne. With. llouph Corn Bedstraw. 
Colonist: In arable land, in calcareous and marly soils. Rather 
rare. July, August. 
II. On Alne Hills; in a cornfield by Drayton Bushes! Part, i., 99, in 
the last locality in 1880 ; near Birdingbury, R. S. R. 1877 ; 
Chesterton; Tachbrook; Harbury; Lighthorne, H. B.; 
Kineton ; Chadshunt, Bolton Kinp : Moreton Morrell; near 
Binton ; Steeple Hill, Bidford ; Red Hill; Temple Grafton ; 
Wilmcote; Birdingbury; Brandon. 
Although occurring over so wide an area in the Avon basin, I have 
never found it in any locality in the Tame basin. I should, 
however, expect it to be found about Hartshill or Nuneaton. 
ASPERULA. 
A. odorata, Linn. Sweet Woodruff. 
Native: In damp woods and on banks in marly soils. Locally 
abundant. April to June. 
I. Hockley, near Knowle; lanes about Meriden and Meriden Shafts; 
lanes about Arley ; Hartshill Wood. 
II. Oversley! Spernal! Ragley Woods! Part., i., 101. Honley! 
Whitnash, Y.and B.; Cathiron Lane, R. S. R., 1877 ; Red Hill, 
near Alcester; Combe Woods ; Harborough Magna ; Kemp’s 
Green. 
A. cynanchica, Liiui. Cainancy-wort. 
Native : In cornfields in Lias soils. Very rare. duly. 
II. Cornfields, near Wilmcote, Rev. A. Blow. 
SHERARDIA. 
S. arvensis, Linn. Blue Field Madder. 
Native: In fields and meadows. Common. May to October. 
Area general. 
VALERIANAGE^. 
VALERIANA. 
V. dioica, Linn. Marsh Valerian. 
Native : In marshes and wet meadows. Local. May, June. 
I. Garlick Meadows, Erdington, With., ii., 90; Sutton Park; Middle- 
ton Heath ; Coleshill Pool; Hampton-in-Arden ; meadow by 
Olton Pool; near Hockley ; near Solihull Railway Station. 
II. Marshy ground by Hoo Mill ; near Middletown, Part, i., 59. At 
Leamington; near the Race Stand, Warwick, Perry FI., 4 ; 
Kenilworth, Y. and B. 
V. officinalis, Linn. Common Valerian. • 
a. Mikanii, Symc. 
Native: In woods and moist places. Rare. duly. 
