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field with myself, which I trust I ever shall be, not " damning with faint praise," 

 or damning with no praise at all, too often practised by envious and unworthy 

 rivalry to the prejudice of science, I cannot here avoid referring to the list of 

 Malvern Plants published by Mr. Addison, of Malvern, and appended to his ad- 

 mirable article on the Medical Topography of Malvern in vol. iv. of TJie Tran- 

 sactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. As I fear that 

 article will scarcely penetrate beyond professional hands, from the nature of the 

 volume in which it is placed, I shall here subjoin those plants found by Mr. Addi- 

 son and not noticed by myself. I, of course, exclude the Mosses and Lichens — of 

 which Mr. Addison has produced a copious list — as too numerous to copy, and 

 being excluded from Mr. Watson's book, as not conducive to the purpose I have 

 in view. 



" Viola hirta. — In a lane at Colwall [Herefordshire] abundantly, Cowleigh 

 Park, &c." 



" Campanula latifolia. — In a coppice below the Chalybeate Spa." This is, 

 however, very rare in the vicinity of Malvern, a thousand and one excursions 

 there never having exhibited it to me. I had the pleasure to see it in Mr. A.'s 

 herbarium. 



" Bupleurum tenuissimum. — At Barnard's Green, on the right of the road 

 below Garford Court." One of the most remarkable of Mr. Addison's discoveries. 

 From Mr. Watson's Guide it appears that, excepting near St. Vincent's Rocks, 

 Bristol, this is the only station for this very rare plant on the western side of 

 Britain. 



" Torilis infesta. — Corn-fields below Great Malvern." 

 " Luciola Forsteri. — In a coppice near the Well House." 

 " Saxifraga tridactylites. — On the walls and the roofs of cottages." Very 

 common when it once becomes social upon the walls of man, but rare under other 

 circumstances. 



" Reseda lutea. — By the sides of the road, common." Mr. Addison's accu- 

 racy is not to be suspected, or I should have imagined some mistake. Mr. Wat- 

 son has not recorded it as found in Herefordshire or in any part of South Wales. 

 As far as I have noticed it is uncommon. 



" Nepeta cataria. — Near the turnpike, by the entrance to Eastnor Castle," 

 Herefordshire. 



" Mentha Pulegium. — On the common by the road-side at Barnard's Green." 

 " Geranium phceum* — By the side of a watery lane beyond the Hales-end, 

 Cradley," Herefordshire. 



" Vicia angustifolia. — Near the Well House." 

 " Hypericum dubium. — Frequent about Malvern." 



" Epipactis latifolia In Cowleigh Park, and other places." 



" Euphorbia Characias." — This occurs in Mr. Addison's list without any 



