APPENDIX. 
147 
D. 
CATALOGUE 
OF THE 
MOST REMARKABLE AND INTERESTING 
PLANTS, 
INDIGENOUS TO WORCESTERSHIRE, 
WITH THEIR HABITATS. 
" With reference to the primary wants of mankind at large, the vegetable king- 
dom is of the highest importance. Let the earth cease to produce its accustomed 
fruits, and every form of animal life must soon be annihilated : for all animals either 
derive their nourishment directly from vegetable food, or feed on those animals 
which have themselves fed on vegetables. And without the aid of the same pro- 
ductions, we should be deprived of various substances which are now employed for 
clothing, and fuel, and the construction of our habitations. Innumerable, indeed, 
are the instances, in which the adaptation of the vegetable kingdom to the arts and 
conveniences of life is visible." 
Professor Kidd's Bridgwater Treatise. 
No connected and accurate catalogue of Worcestershire 
Plants worthy the attention of the scientific botanist in the 
present day is in existence, although scattered notices occur 
in various publications. The first meagre mention of our 
indigenous botany appears to have been in Gough's Additions 
to Camden's Britannia, and with the exception of such 
notices as Ray and Hudson introduced in their general works, 
this was all that appeared on the subject for a long period. 
Mr. Pitts, an alderman of Worcester, sent an account of the 
Sorb tree, in Bewdley Forest, to the Royal Society, which was 
inserted in the Philosophical Transactions in 1678. What more 
Mr. Pitts might have done in the cause of Botany is unrecor- 
ded. In 1/86 the celebrated " Botanical Arrangement'* of 
