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summit of the North Hill^ Malvern. Ankerdine Hill. Not 
common. 
Lithospermiim officinale, Gromwell. Battenhall, near 
Worcester, and on the lime rubbish about the western base of 
the Malvern Hills. 
Anchusa sempervirens, Evergreen Alkanet. Near the Blan- 
kets, Worcester. — Mr. Ballard and Dr. Stokes. Under an 
old elm tree beyond the Old Water Works. Very uncommon. 
Cynoglossum sylvaticum, Green-leaved Hound's-tongue. 
Shady lanes about Worcester .-^Alderman Pitts. ^Ray's Sy- 
nopsis. The merciless road-surveyors have however now 
exiled 'iL In Deerhurst Lane, close to the Lower Lode 
Ferry, near Tewkesbury. Very rare. 
Borago officinalis, Borage. Battenhall, near Worcester, 
and about Bromwich Farm. At Lower Wick. The fine 
azure of the flowers is strikingly beautiful. The plant being 
a biennial is soon lost from the spot where it is noticed. 
Echium vidgare, Viper's Bugloss. A fine showy plant, 
and not uncommon in the northern part of the county, but 
almost unknown in the southern. It sometimes gets on 
walls, as on Dudley Castle, where it appears in a very dwarf- 
ish state, but in fallow fields it becomes a yard in height. 
Prirnula elatior, Oxlip. About Leigh Sinton, Cradley, &c. 
in pastures on limestone. 
P. veris Var,, "Black Cowslip" of Dr. Abbot. A singular 
dark-flowered variety found in a field at Bromwich Farm, by 
Mr. Lees. 
Menyanthes trifoliata, Buckbean. One of our most beau- 
tiful native plants. In a pool on Hartlebury Common 
" Our beauteous Menyanthes hides 
Her clustering, fringed flowers 
but so far in the" water as to render it difficult to obtain a 
specimen. This plant was probably formerly much more 
common than at present, but the rage for enclosures and 
