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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
This Catalogue is at once one of the most interesting and 
one of the most provoking contributions to the history of 
Worcestershire Botany. It has preserved to us a record of 
the rarer Flora of Cradley Park, woodland in Scott’s time, 
soon after stocked and converted into arable, and subsequently 
changed into collieries and brickworks. It records also other 
plants of the Stourbridge district, now extinct. On the other 
hand, it has many defects. Stourbridge is in the County of 
Worcester, very near the Stafford boundary. In many cases 
the exact localities are not given, and it is impossible to tell 
whether the plants named were found in Worcester or 
Stafford. 
For instance, several rarities are recorded from “ Iverley ,” 
a district on the high road from Stourbridge to Kidderminster, 
situated on both sides the county boundary, without any 
notice whether the plants were found in Worcester or 
Stafford. In other cases the specific names are omitted, 
or the names quoted in such a manner as to make it impos¬ 
sible to tell what plants were intended. Finally, there are 
so many obvious errors of identification as to throw more or 
less discredit on the entire list. Under thes£ circumstances 
I have introduced a new sign (}) to indicate plants which 
may not be misnamed, but which cannot be certainly claimed 
as Worcester records. I have given Scott credit for most 
of the common plants inserted without locality, omitting a 
few recorded by previous authors. 
William Scott. “ Stourbridge and its Vicinity.” 1832. A 
select descriptive Botanical Catalogue, p. 540. 
* Ranunculus parviflorus. Lanes near Hagley. 
* Nymphsea ( Nuphar ) lutea. Blakedown ; Broadwaters, near Kidder¬ 
minster. 
* Fumaria ( Corydalis ) claviculata. Dingle near Lye. 
F. capreolata. Dingle near Lye. 
* Cardamine impatiens. Double blossomed. Field near the Spout, 
Hagley. Noticed by Withering. 
An error for C. pratensis. (See Withering, 4th 
Edition, p. 568.) 
* Turritis glabra. Hagley ; Wollaston ; Bridgnorth Boad. 
Cochlearia Coronopus. (Senebiera Goronopus. Poir.) Heath Boad side. 
J Viola Hottonia. Marshes. No locality. 
The plant probably intended is Hottonia palustris, L., 
not now known near Stourbridge. It is strange 
that the locality should not have been specified. 
It grew on Birmingham Heath in Withering's 
time. (See Stokes's Withering, p. 954.) 
