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a feeling for the picturesque and beautiful will resort ; 
and how much is the delight experienced by the 
Wanderer on those health-restoring hills enhanced^ 
if he carry with him a taste for botanical pursuits^ 
for that celebrated chain of hills is rich in phgenoga- 
mous as well as cryptogamous plants. It is no part 
of my plan to attempt a catalogue of the plants 
growing on the Malvern Hills. That task^ indeed^ 
will I doubt not be very ably performed by a gentle- 
man^ who has promised us much important informa- 
tion respecting the localities of plants. I may, 
however, observe that the professional wanderer 
among these delightful mountains, cannot fail to 
remark the number of medicinal herbs, which are not 
less useful in their virtues than ornamental in their 
appearance* The Colchlcum autumnale, Digitalis 
purpurea^ Hijoscyamus niger, Erijtkrcea Centaurium, 
j4grimonia Eupatoria, Marruhiiim vulgare, Cytisus 
scoparium, Chelidomum maj'us, Geum iirhanum, Gle- 
choma hederacea, and Humidus Lapulus, with some 
others of less note, are all to be gathered on these 
hills or within a short distance of them. 
I may further observe, generally, that the geogra- 
phical distribution of plants on the Malvern Hills, 
and on the country around^ does not offer any 
peculiar features. The class of Alpine plants, so 
frequent in the more lofty mountains in the north^ 
are not found here, and the temperature of the 
summits of the Worcestershire hills differs too little 
from that of the valleys to afford much difference in 
the character of its vegetation. In fact;, the Botany 
