Apr., 1889. 
COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
BY WM. MATHEWS. M. A. 
(Continued from page 68.) 
We must now return to Mr. Edwin Lees and his further 
contributions to the Botany of the County. 
In the year 1842 he published the first edition of the 
“ Botanical Looker-out among the Wild Flowers of the 
Fields, Woods, and Mountains of England and Wales/’ A 
second edition appeared in 1851. In this work the author 
notes the most striking species which appear in flower in the 
successive months of the year, in various parts of England 
and Wales. It may be inferred from pages 94 and 95 of the 
first edition (pp. 188, 139 of the second) that the following 
trees, not previously recorded, occur in Worcestershire :— 
Lime. Tilia intermedia. 
Blackthorn. Prunus spinosa. 
Alder. Alnus glntinosa. 
Beech. Fagus sylvatica. 
Hazel. Corylus Avellana. 
The next work of the same author is the well-known 
“ Botany of the Malvern Hills.” Of this there are three 
editions, none of which bear a date on the title page. The 
prefaces are dated respectively May 12th, 1843; August, 
1852; July 31st. 1868. 
This work is of some importance in the history of 
Worcestershire Botany. It is the first in which all the 
plants are recorded, and the first also in which any attempt 
is made to discriminate the Rubi. Mr. Lees enumerates, in 
the first edition, 786 species of flowering plants and ferns 
as growing in the Malvern District. Those from adjoining 
parts of Hereford and Gloucester are admitted, and there is 
some difficultv in distinguishing them. Very few localities 
are mentioned in the first edition ; these I have added where 
necessary from the second and third. I have omitted many 
of the commoner species which have been previously noted. 
The author explains that “where the capital E is placed after 
a plant it signifies that it is confined to the eastern side of 
the hills; W to the western side; H denotes that it is 
limited to the hills themselves or to their protruding rocks.” 
