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APPENDIX. 
Dr. Withering appeared. As tliat gentleman resided at 
Edgbaston, near Birmingham, almost on the boundary line of 
the counties of Warwick and Worcester, he necessarily intro- 
duced a great number of Worcestershire plants into his pages, 
and the localities of some of them are particularly referred to. 
But the second edition, which came out greatly improved, in 
178/5 under the co-editorship of Dr. Jonathan Stokes, is 
more peculiarly valuable to the Worcestershire botanist. Dr. 
Stokes resided at that time in Kidderminster, and his refer- 
ences to the habitats of many Worcestershire plants are 
peculiarly curious and valuable, since some of these are now 
unfortunately obliterated. Dr. Nash when he published his 
ponderous folios on the Topography of Worcestershire, pre- 
fixed a list of plants, many of which are rare, and some 
not now to be found in the places there indicated. This 
list was probably communicated to Dr. Nash. Pitt, in 
his " Agriculture of Worcestershire" published in 1810, has 
given a list of vegetable productions, which he observed, he 
says, in "a tour through the county in September and Octo- 
ber, 1805." This in some respects is not amiss, but the latin 
names, whether by his own mistake or that of the printer, 
are terribly misspelt. In 1817 Mr. Thomas Purton, surgeon, 
of Alcester, published a " Midland Flora," in 2 volumes. 
Alcester lying within a few miles of the eastern boundary of 
our county, many Worcestershire plants are described by Mr. 
Purton, and more especially in his Appendix" published in 
1821, in 2 parts, which is peculiarly rich in the cryptogamous 
plants. Sir James Smith has praised this work for its accu- 
racy, but its value as a book of reference is much deteriorated 
by its interminable additions, corrections, and appendices. 
Mr. Purton died in 1833. Other notices of Worcestershire 
plants may be found in Turner and Dillwyn's "Botanical 
Guide through England and Wales ;" Laird's Topography of 
Worcestershire, in the *^ Beauties of England and Wales;'* 
Walford's " Scientific Tourist through Great Britain 5" 
