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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
It must not be supposed that all these ferns are now growing 
in the district. They have been, and still are being, rapidly 
destroyed. Polypodium Dryopteris is extinct at the Valley, Poly- 
stichum angulare exterminated at Ham Dingle, Scolopendrium is 
all but (or quite) extinct, Ceterach only sporadic, Osmunda extinct, 
Botrychium wantonly destroyed at the Lickey by, as I am told, the 
then agent of the owner. At the present time the ferns in the woods 
are being dug up and carried by hundreds into Birmingham, where 
they are sold at threepence and fourpence the root, and, strange to 
say, the law is powerless to stop the depredators. 
The following species have been observed in the district since 
1881. Some are new localities only :— 
Ranunculus peltatus var. floribundus. First record. 
* Aquilegia vulgaris. Fenny Rough, 1884. 
Barbarea stricta. The Manor Abbey, Halesowen, Wm. M. ! 
* Lepidium ruderale. Foot of the dam of Tardebigg Reservoir. In abun¬ 
dance, 1885. 
Viola Reichenbachiana. Brake Mill Plantation. First record. 
* V. palustris. Chaddesley Wood, 1886. 
Arenaria leptoclados. About Churchill and Kidderminster. First record. 
* Cerastium arvense. Bewdley Branch Railway bank, E. of Stour, near 
Kidderminster. 
Lepigonum marinum. Rubbish heap at Hoo Mill, Kidderminster, 1875, 
fide C. C. B. First record. 
* Trifolium filiforme. Chaddesley Wood, 1886 
* Potentilla procumbeus. Bromsgrove Lickey. 
* Spiraea salicifolia. Hedge in Red Lane, Redditch, 1882, Mr. D. Mathews ! 
* Pyrus torminalis. Fox Lyddiatt Wood, Redditch. 
* Epilobium roseum. Capon’s Pool, Lifford, Rev. Hy. Boydeu. 
* Sedum Telephium. Hurcott. 
* Sison Amomum. The Randans. 
* Galium ulginosum. Park Hall ; Stanklin Pool; Stone; Churchill. 
* Matricaria Chamomilla. The Bicknells, Clent, 1884, and other places. 
* Onooordum Acanthium. Near Churchill Farm Buildings, 18tli August, 
1885. 
* Carduus crispus. Salter’s Lane, Redditch. 
* Cichorium Iutybus. Near Park Hall, Clent, Mr. Amphlett. 
* Picris hieracioides. The Randans. 
* Campanula Trachelium. Fenny Rough, Stone. 
* Melampyrum pratense. Randan Woods; Fenny Rough ; Lower Lickey. 
In all the woods near Redditch, Mr. D. Mathews. 
* Veronica scutellata. Rowney Green; bog near Alvechurch; muddy 
pond at Weblieath, Mr. D. Mathews. 
* Salvia verbenaca. Roadside, Blakedown, 1883. 
(To be continued.) 
March, 1893. 
