4 THE FLORA OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 



Farther south the county is watered by the Stour and its affluents. 

 The Stour enters the county east of Cradley, forming the county 

 boundary for several miles, and draining a thickly populated dis- 

 trict, yielding little of botanical interest except the ever-present 

 coltsfoot, and, passing through Stourbridge and Prestwood, receives 

 the Smestow at Stourton. The Smestow with its affluents is far- 

 reaching, receiving waters from Patingham, Wolverhampton, the 

 west side of Dudley,. Himley, TrysuU, and Enville, and at Stourton 

 joins the Stour. The Stour now takes the course of the Smestow, 

 and, flowing through Kinver and part of Worcestershire, joins the 

 Severn at Stourport. The Severn proper flows through the narrow 

 tongue of Statibrdsbire in which Arley and Seckley Woods are 

 situated, and is fed by streams from North Wood and Seckley 

 Wood. 



Authorities, Books, &g., quoted. 

 Brown. — Flora of Di>trict around Tutbury and Burton, by Edwin 



Brown, in Mosley's Nat. Hist, of Tutbury (1863). 

 i?/w.— Rev. W. Bree in Purtou's Midland Flora (1817-21). 

 CarUv, 1889. — Magazine of Natural History, 1839, pp. 72-76. 

 Doiujias. — Li >t of Stafford plants sent to Watson, 1851 (see Top. Bot. 



ed. 2, 5^3). 

 Eraser, .John, M.D. — MS. Notes on the Flora of Staffordshire. 

 Gam. — Robert Garner, F.L.S. Natural History of Staffordshire 



(1841-60). 

 Moore. — In Reports of North Staffordshire Natural History Society 



(dates various). 

 N. S. S. Rep. — Reports of North Staffordshire Nat. Hist. Society. 

 Painter, Rev. W. H. — "Plants seen within six miles of Biddulph 



Church," &c., in Reports of North Staffordshire Nat. Hi«t. 



Society (dates various). 

 Power. — MS. Notes and specimens, by the favour of C. E. Salmon, 



F.L.S. 

 Piirchas, Rev. W. H., of Alstonlield Vicarage. — Notes, &c. 

 Hay, Syn. — Ray, Synopsis, ed. iii. (172-1). 



Pleader, Rev. H. P., of Hawkesyard Priory, Rugeley, — Notes, &c. 

 Shaw. — Natural History of Staffordshire, List of Plants, by Rev. S. 



Dickenson, vol. i. pp. 97-115, vol. ii. p. 5 ; Riley, vol. ii. p. 7 ; 



VVainwright, vol. ii. p. 6 (1798-1801). 

 Stokes. — In Withering's Natural Arrangement of British plants, 



ed. ii. (1787). 

 With. — Withering in ditto, ed. iv. edited by William Withering, jun. 



(1801). 



