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cifera is indeed very nearly peculiar to the Dowards ; one specimen alone having 
been found elsewhere—on the Coppet hill—last summer. Then Epipactis ovalis 
and media, with Cephalanthera grandiflora would all be unique in the Hereford- 
shire Flora, were it not that the latter is to be met with, within a mile of the 
Dowards, on the other side of the river, and that Mr. Towndrow informs us that 
Epipactis media is common in the Malvern district. On the Dowards it rests upon 
a single specimen, picked some years ago. Epipactis ovalis is, we may fear, a thing 
of the past. It was a native of the Lesser Doward; but has disappeared with the 
change in the vegetation of Little Doward above alluded to. 
Another feature of the Doward botany, is its rare Carices, humilis, mon- 
tana, and digitata. C. digitata has been found recently at one or two other spots 
within the county ; otherwise all the three would be confined to these hills. 
Last, as perhaps the greatest peculiarity of all the Doward vegetation, Atropa 
Belladonna deserves especial mention. It occurs not sparingly upon both hills ; 
but, as above mentioned, the southern slopes of the Lesser hill are sometimes a 
dense mass of this plant—seemingly the only one deadly enough to be proof against 
the deer. 
It is proverbially difficult to establish a negative; and we are by no means 
certain that a good part of the subjoined list of common plants not found upon the 
Doward Hills, will not eventually be obtained from them—especially of the var- 
ieties of Bramble and Rose which need such a practised eye to discriminate. There 
are at present upon this list 44, the names of which here follow :— 
Ranunculus hederaceus, LZ. Carduus eriophorus, LZ. 
a sceleratus, L. Centaurea Cyanus, L. 
Trifolium filiforme, DL. Senecio sylvaticus, LD. 
Vicia Bobartii, Forst. Anthemis arvensis, L. 
Potentilla procumbens, Sibth. Hieracium tridentatum, ries. 
Rubus villicaulis, W. & WV. Campanula patula, ZL. 
»»  Schlechtendalii, W. & WV. Pedicularis sylvatica, L. 
»,  scaber, Wethe. Lamium maculatum, LZ. 
»  Lejeunii, Wezhe. Anchusa arvensis, Bieb. 
Rosa canina, L. Chenopodium Bonus Henricus, L. 
‘. - surculosa. Rumex pratensis, M. & K. 
35 on spherica. Polygonum Persicaria elatum, L. 
BA a5 Reuteri. Urtica urens, Z. 
Epilobium obscurum, Schreb. Carex lepidocarpa, Zausch. 
Ribes rubrum, ZL. >,  paludosa, Good. 
Adoxa moschatellina, Z. Glyceria pedicellata, Towns. 
Silaus pratensis, Bers. Festuca sciurioides, Roth. 
Torilis infesta, Spreng. Nardus stricta, Z. 
» nodosa, Gaert. Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. 
Scandix Pecten, Z. Nephrodium affine, Fisch. 
Silybum Marianum, Gaert. Equisetum limosum, LZ. 
But in the case of the following plants, it may be accepted with tolerable as- 
surance, amounting in many cases almost to a moral certainty, that they are not 
