HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
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“ Walford’s Scientific Tourist through Great Britain.” 
Florence’s “ Worcester Guide.” 
Dr. Booker’s “ History of Dudley.” 
“ The Midland Medical and Surgical Reporter.” 
No dates are given to any of these works. 
The account of Worcestershire, by F. C. Laird, is 
contained in Vol. XV. of the “Beauties of England and 
Wales,” 1814. It contains three lists of plants : those of the 
neighbourhood of Malvern, at p. 322 ; of the neighbourhood 
of Pershore, at p. 359 ; of Bredon Hill, at p. 365. With 
the exception of Clematis Vitalba, previously noted by Pitt, 
all the species are taken, without acknowledgment, from the 
first catalogue of Dr. Nash. 
I have not seen Walford’s “ Scientific Tourist through 
Great Britain.” I am indebted to my friend, Mr. F. E. 
Blackstone, of the British Museum, for a description of it, 
and for extracting the list of Worcester plants. The work 
was published, in two vols., in 1818. The Worcester list 
comes last in Vol. I. It contains 41 “ rare plants,” most of 
them discovered by Nash, Stokes, or Withering, and was 
probably taken from one of the later editions of the 
“ Botanical Arrangement” of the latter author. It contains 
no original matter and no new records. 
“ A Descriptive and Historical Account of Dudley Castle 
and its surrounding scenery,” by the Rev. Luke Booker, 
LL.D., vicar of Dudley, was published at Dudley in 1825. 
It contains, at p. 107, “ A List of Plants, &c., growing (many 
of them indigenously) near the Castle,” and is interesting as 
the first collected record of the plants of the Castle Hill. I 
therefore give the list entire, re-arranged in accordance with 
modern sequence:— 
Anemone nemorosa. * Chlora perfoliata. 
* Reseda Luteola. * Solanum Dulcamara. 
Linum catharticum, * Atropa Belladonna. 
Geranium dissectum. * Thymus Serpyllum. 
* G. ( Erodium ) moschatum. * Melissa Calamintha. 
Alchemilla vulgaris. * Echium vulgare. 
Rosa villosa. Plantago media (var . foliosa). 
R. canina. 
R. arvensis. 
Crataegus Oxyacantha. 
Pimpinella Saxifraga. 
One species. 
* Carduus eriophorus. 
* Conyza squarrosa. 
* Erigeron acre. 
Fraxinus excelsior. 
TJ. montana. 
Paris quadrifolia. 
Colchicum autumnale. 
Avena elaiior. 
