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COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
Mar., 1889 . 
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
BY WM. MATHEWS, M. A. 
(Continued from Vol. XI., page 307.) 
Midland Counties Herald , August 5th, 1838. 
“Remarkable plants observed growing spontaneously in the 
neighbourhood of Birmingham by Wm. Ick. Curator of the 
Birmingham Philosophical Institution.” Worcester plants 
only included. The previous records of Dr. Ick and Miss 
Beilbv omitted. 
Aconitum Napellus. Meadow at Northfield. 
* Turritis glabra. Near Stourbridge. 
Erysimum cheiranthoid.es. Caledonia, near Stourbridge. 
Lepidium hirtum (L. Smithii). Near Stourbridge. 
* Thlaspi arvense. Near Stourbridge. 
Sisymbrium’Sopha. Near Stourbridge. 
* Polygala vulgaris (P. depressa ?) Moseley Bog. 
* Stellaria uliginosa. Stony Lane, Moseley. 
* Epilobium tetragonum (E. obscurum?) Meadows beyond Yaugh- 
ton’s Hole. 
* Montia fontana. Stony Lane, near the top. 
* Sanicula europsea. Moseley Bog. 
* Adoxa Moschatellina. Edgbaston Lane, near Moseley Hall. 
* Viburnum Opulus. Moseley Bogs. 
* Valeriana officinalis var. /3. Stirchlev Street, near King’s Norton. 
* Dipsacus pilosus. Meadow near the field path from the back of 
the Pebble Mill to Moseley. 
* Solidago Virg-aurea. Halesowen Road. 
* Eupatorium cannabinum. Edgbaston Lane, near Avern’s Mill. 
* Pulicaria dysenterica. Yardley, near the bridge. 
* Campanula latifolia. Yardley, on the bank of the stream a little 
below the bridge. 
* Digitalis purpurea. Banks around Moseley Common. 
* Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus. Meadow near the National School, 
Moseley. 
Juncus squarrosus. Moseley Bog. 
* J. uliginosus and var. subverticillatus. Moseley Bog. 
Triglochin palustre. Moseley Bog. 
* Eleocharis palustris. Moseley Common. 
* Scirpus caespitosus. Billesley Common. 
