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A Visit to Wyre Forest, Worcestershire. By T. W. Gissine. 
I propose to give a list of some of the rarer plants found in 
Wyre Forest during a visit in June last; but before so domg I 
would refer to a former visit, in July, 1854. On that occasion, 
as on the present, we were accompanied by the veteran botanist 
of the district, Mr. Jorden, of Bewdley, the discoverer of many 
of the rarer plants of that neighbourhood. In 1854, after wan- 
dering about for some hours, we came upon the “ great bog,” and 
here it was Mr. Jorden’s good fortune to discover a single plant 
of the rare Neortia_astivauis, hitherto known in only one 
locality in England—the New Forest, Hants. The plant found 
was not in full flower, and we vainly searched for more, as did 
another party of botanists a week or two later. This year our 
visit was too early to hope to find it, and the season being a good 
month behind added to this difficulty. We were not disap- 
pointed; but I hope it may yet be found there again. Without 
a guide it would be most difficult to find the bog, as the paths of 
the forest are so very intricate, and in some cases obscure. We 
likewise on both occasions visited the celebrated “Old Sorb 
Tree,” the only one in England. I am sorry to say it now sel- 
dom flowers, and is fast decaying, as much through the heedless 
rapacity of visitors as from old-age: in a very few years no 
vestige will be left of this once fine old tree and botanical rarity. 
I enclose with this a rough sketch of it as it was in June last, 
thinking that if it were engraved it would be a suitable record 
of the Pyrus domestica, and, incorporated in the ‘ Phytologist,’ 
will be acceptable to all readers. 
I will now give a list of the rarer plants found :— 
Clematis Vitalba. Viola hirta. 
Aquilegia vulgaris.* Drosera rotundifolia. 
Fumaria capreolata. Sagina apetala. 
Thlaspi arvense. Spergularia rubra. 
Lepidium Smithu. Malva moschata. 
Cardamine impatiens. » rotundifolia. 
Turritis glabra. Tila parviflora. 
Viola palustris. Hypericum Androsemum. 
» odorata, var. alba. fs quadrangulum. 
* Any botanist who has visited Wyre Forest will never again doubt the true 
wildness of the Columbine. 
