274 isc. PUBLICATION 797, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
WORCESTERSHIRE 
Vice-county 37. 
General 
Amphlett, John, Rea, Carlton, and others. The botany of Worcestershire. 
An account of the flowering plants, ferns, mosses, hepatics, lichens, fungi, 
and fresh-water algae, which grow or have grown spontaneously in the 
county of Worcestershire ... xxxiii, 654 p. map (in pocket). 22.5 cm. 
Birmingham, 1909. 
Botanical districts, explorations (with included bibliography), bibliogra- 
phy; annotated flora of vascular and cellular plants (1185 vascular), with 
localities and notes on uses. Replaces Lees, Edwin. The botany of Worces- 
tershire ...2 p. 1. xci, 147, 48 p.. illus., 3 pl., map. 22 cm. Worcester, 
1867. (General features of flora with special attention to introduced plants, 
topography, climate, botanical explorations, botanical districts, etc.; tabular 
list of vascular plants and Characeae, showing local distribution; appendix 
on Worcestershire Rubus. In Gray Herbarium library.)—See also Rea, 
Carleton. Appendix to the botany of Worcestershire. Trans. Worcestersh. 
Nat. Club v. 7/8, Appendix. 139 p. 1920-32. (Extensive list of new rec- 
ords and new localities for vascular and cellular plants (p. 1-135), with sup- 
plementary list (p. 186-139) bringing total to 4,567 species (1,285 vascular). 
In Cornell University library.)—Also Day, F. M. Plant records from 
Worcestershire, 1944-48 [-1949]. lc. 10 (1948-1949): 198-194, 194-195. 
1950. (Author’s records. In Cornell University library.)—Also Hardaker, 
W. H. The botany of Worcestershire: appendix II. l.c. 10 (1952-1958): 
328-340. 1954. (Author’s records based on over 40 years’ work. In Cornell 
University library.) 
Humphreys, John. Works relating to the botany of Worcestershire. In 
Bibliography of Worcestershire. Pt. III. 1 p. 1. p. 217-247. 1907. (Publi- 
cation of Worcestershire Historical Society, Oxford.) 
Chronologically arranged list of botanical publications, 1549-1906, essen- 
tially without annotations. The paper is part III (b) of the Bibliography. 
Local 
Humphreys, John. A survey of the flora of East Worcestershire. Proc. 
Birmingham Nat. Hist. and Phil. Soc. 14: 61-86. 1917. 
Geology, sketch of botanical explorations with mention of rarer species 
recorded by earlier authors, account of various localities with lists of note- 
worthy species, lists of scarcer plants of different habitats; no full list of 
species. Relates to the Lickey district, the northern part of the Avon dis- 
trict, and the eastern side of the Severn valley.—See also Smith, M. M. H. 
Ecological survey of the phanerogams of Hartlebury Common, in 1932 and 
1933. l.c. 16: 101-129. 1 fig. (map). 1934. (Account of habitats and 
plant communities, with included lists of species, complementing Humphreys’ 
list of noteworthy species from that locality given on p. 82-86.) 
Lees, Edwin. The botany of the Malvern Hills in the counties of Worces- 
ter, Hereford, and Gloucester; with a succinct account of their geology, 
physical geography, climate, etc., the precise stations of the rarer plants, 
and the most interesting localities. 3. ed. viii, 166 p. col. pl. 19.5 cm. 
London, [pref. 1868]. (Gray Herbarium library.) (1st ed. 1843.) 
Topography, geology, climate; annotated list of 1844 plants (894 species 
of vascular plants and Characeae, on the Linnaean system).—See also 
Towndrow, R. F. Worcestershire plants. Jour. Bot. 49: 98-99. 1911. 51: 
57-58. 19138. (Vicinity of Malvern.)—Also Day, Plants of the Silurian 
limestones on the west of the Malvern hills, under Herefordshire.—Also 
Mackie, below. 
Mackie, G. E. Catalogue of local flowering plants. In his Malvern field 
handbook and naturalist’s calendar ... p. 14-382. 16.5 cm. Malvern, 1886. 
(Library of N. D. Simpson.) 
Unannotated list of spermatophytes, alphabetically arranged by English 
names, with habitats or localities; also a “Flower calendar” (p. 5-13) and 
a “list of local ferns” (p. 88).—See also Lees, above. 
