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WORCESTERSHIRE PLANTS. 



By R. F. Towndrow. 



The following plants have not been recorded for the Malvern 

 district of Worcestershire, and those marked with an asterisk are 

 also new to the county. 



'■■'Fumaria Borcei Jord. var. verna Clavaud. Abundant in an 

 arable field at Welland, April, 1912. 



Viola sylvestris Kit. forma leucantha G. Beck. Half Key, 

 near Malvern. 



*Trifolium dubium Sibth. var. pygmceum Soy. Will. Castle- 

 morton Common. 



'•'Vicia tetrasperma Moench var. tenuissima Fr. Hanley Castle. 



*V. Gracca L. var. argentea Coss. & Germ. Malvern Wells. 

 Sedumpurpureum Tausch. Welland. This confirms the species 

 as a Worcestershire plant. It is entered, with some doubt, in 

 Amphlett & Rea's Botany of Worcestershire. 



Caucalis daucoides L. One plant in farmyard, Malvern Wells. 



■''Callitriche obtusangula Le Gall. Abundant in ditches on the 

 Common at Gnarlford, F. C. Morgan & B. F. T. 



'■'■'- Gnaphaliicm uliginosumTLu var. pilulare (Wahlenb.). Malvern 

 Link Common, 1877. Castlemorton, 1912. 



"Cnicus arvensis x palustris. Castlemorton Common. 



'■'Hieracmm Pilosella L. var. concinnatum F. J. Hanb. Hill 

 above Little Malvern. 



*H. serratifrons Almq. var. grandidens Dahlst. Grassy bank, 

 Malvern Wells. 



■'H. pinnatifidum Lonnr. var. vivarium Lonnr. Grassy bank, 

 Malvern Wells. 



*H. sciaphilum Wechtr. var. transient Ley. Grassy bank, 

 Malvern Wells. 



'■'H. sabaudum L. var. rigens (Jord.). Railway cutting and 

 embankments, Malvern and Bransford. The four last mentioned 

 species have been kindly named by the Rev. E. F. Linton. 



■•'Leontodon nudicaule Banks & Soland. var. lasiolcenum Druce. 

 Castlemorton, Barnard's Green, and Malvern Link Commons, and 

 on a hedgebank at the Rhydd. 



■L. hispiduni L. A plant which I have observed in Welland 

 and five adjoining parishes is considered by Mr. C. E. Salmon, to 

 whom specimens gathered at Little Malvern were submitted by 

 Mr. A. J. Crosfield, to be the variety glabratus Gren. & Godr. It 

 has the involucre and upper part of scape glabrous. It differs 

 from var. hastile L. by having hairy leaves, though it exactly 

 matches a plant I received from the B. E. C. so labelled. 



Chenopodium serotinum L. Abundant on a rubbish-heap 

 at Malvern. This plant is placed in the table at the end of 

 Edwin Lees's Bot. of Worcestershire (1867) as having occurred in 

 the Severn District, and at p. xlvii. of that work is included with 

 plants that have but one record each. This record, therefore, is 

 only new for Malvern. 



