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tha, Ophrys apifera, Listeva Nidus-avis, and Epipactis lalifolia. Wood 

 lyme grass {Elymus Eiiropccua) is also peculiar to the western woods. 



" Purlieu Lane, and some other hollow ways about Mathon and 

 Cradley, still exhibit the old country characteristic of the roadway and 

 the water-course existing in conjunction ; and in such deep recesses 

 Lathraea squamaria and other shy plants delight to hide from the 

 glare of daylight. Here the wanderer finds himself deep in the soil, 

 and almost floating with the stream, while thick masses of verdure, 

 from pollard oaks and battered hollies, overspread the twilight scene; 

 and old boles and mossy roots are covered with the untouched hoary 

 mould of centuries, or inscribed with the curious characters the liiellae 

 of Opegrapha lyncea or Graphis scripta form in such places. 



" It has been remarked that more plants occur here varying with 

 white flowers than is usual in other places ; and I have observed the 

 following plants thus sportively circumstanced : Veronica officinalis, 

 Scabiosa succisa, Erythraea Centaureura, Campanula Trachelium, 

 Anagallis tenella, Agraphis nutans, Calluna vulgaris, Aquilegia vul- 

 garis, Ajuga reptans, Betonica officinalis. Prunella vulgaris, Pedicu- 

 laris sylvatica. Digitalis purpurea, Vicia sepium, Ballota fcetida, Bart- 

 sia Odontites, Antirrhinum maj us, Polygola vulgaris. Ononis arvensis, 

 Carduus nutans, C palustris. Orchis pyramidalis, and 0. raascula. 



" The following plants have either become very recently denizens 

 of the Malvern district, or have been previously unrecorded in the 

 localities where they now appear : Veronica Buxbaumii, Echium vul- 

 gare, Erythi-aea pulchella, QCnanthe Lachenalii, Sium angustifolinm, 

 Bupleurum rotundifolium, Rumex pulcher, Epilobium virgatum, Po- 

 lygonum mite, Geum intermedium, Scrophularia P^hrharti, Orobanche 

 minor, Limosella aquatica, Lepidium Draba, Barbarea praecox. Gera- 

 nium striatum, Orobus tenuifolius, Lathyrus Aphaca, Lactuca Sca- 

 riola, Hieracium umbellatum, Callitriche pedunculata, Myriophyllum 

 alterniflorum, Salix acuminata, Juncus obtusiflorus, Alopecurus ful- 

 vus, Avena pubescens, Lolium multiflorum, and Potaraogeton prse- 

 longus. 



" More than half the plants occupying the Malvern Hills are Cryp- 

 togamic, as will be seen by the following enumeration, which includes 

 the productions not only of the syenitic ridges themselves, but of the 

 country eastward to the Severn, northward to the Teme, southward to 

 Redmarley on the Ledden, and westward to the Silurian heights pa- 

 rallel with Ledbury. Undoubtedly considerable additions may yet 

 be made to the Algae and Fungi ; for I have not been able to give 

 much attention to the Algae Confervoideae, nor have I taken but very 

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