360 BOTANY OF WYRE FOREST. 
taneously on its favourite trees. On several occasions I have 
found protuberances on the Crab-tree, with many little branch- 
lets springing therefrom. 
Prunus Cerasus is found in several places here in old hedges 
in parts long cultivated ; it very likely was once the only Cherry 
ever cultivated here; the cropping the hedges causes it to be- 
come more stoloniferous. In an old orchard I once saw a very 
old tree of this species. 
Prunus Avium ;. black and red fruited of botanists. The red- 
fruited is probably a distinct species; its growth luxuriant, 
branches stiff, leaves larger than P. Aviwm, and grows sooner to 
a much larger tree; fruit always red, the other always black. 
Plentiful in woods and hedges in the neighbourhood of Bewdley. 
Now from the sylvan wilds, the mountain and the moor, to. 
wander in the flowery fields, adorned with gems of every hue that 
have left their birthplace in the forest shades to enjoy their free- 
dom in the woods. First Ranunculus bulbosus spreads its yellow 
mantle far and wide; Orchis Morio parades in military array ; 
Primula veris, with its pendent tassels, tipped with gold, adds to 
the meadows floral charms; the cheerful, meek, and humble 
Daisy sits upon the grass; Rhinanthus Crista-gaili rattles in the 
breezes ; Ophioglossum vulgatum, adder-like, concealed amongst 
the grass, also Botrychiwm Lunaria, mystic herb! of no account 
in Flora’s train; Anemone nemorosa, Euphrasia officinalis, Ery- 
threa Centaw®um, and many more, have fled for freedom here 
to jom the floral groups; the modest Primula vulgaris will not 
forsake its sylvan shades, nor Melampyrum pratense (wrongly 
named) will not forsake, its forest home, here co-existing with 
the Oak ever since it first began to people its domain. Just 
risen from the womb of mother earth, poor Colchicum, a naked, 
ruthful object, arrived too late to join the floral train ; it has left 
behind its crest of green, sad harbinger of Flora’s near demise ! 
The arable fields present a different Flora: some from the 
woods have come; some meaner tribes, ejected from the meads ; 
some aliens, no one knows from whence they came,—some an- 
nual, others perennial,—all agricultural pests that flourish from 
the sloven’s negligence. Here Papaver Rhwas spreads its gory 
_ mantle over the cereal crops, which it often nearly destroys, as 
also Sinapis arvensis, both insidious foes, conceal their mischief 
beneath the sod for many years. Triticum repens, Tussilago 
