HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
BY WM. MATHEWS, M. A. 
(Continued from page 62.) 
Since the publication of the last number of this history I 
have examined the English Flora of Sir J. E. Smith for 
notices of Worcestershire plants. The first edition of the 
Flora, in 4 vols., Bvo, was published at the following dates: 
Yols. I. and II., 1824; Vol. III., 1825; Vol. IV., 1828. A 
second edition of the whole work appeared in 1828. It has 
yielded the following records :— 
Yols. I. and II., 1824. 
Campanula hederacea. On Hartlebury Common. Rev. T. Butt. 
This is the only original record of C. hederacea on Hartlebury 
Common, and is one of doubtful correctness, as the plant has not 
been seen in that locality by any other botanist. It is on the 
authority of the same observer that Gnaphalium margaritaceum is 
recorded from Wyre Forest, in the Botanists' Guide, 1805. 
Pyrola media. Wyre Forest, near Bewdley. Dr. Pratington. 
(Pratinton.) 
* Cuscutajeuropaea. At Shipston-on-Stour. Rev. Dr. Jones. 
* Daphne Mezereum. At Eastham and Stanford. Rev. E. Whitehead 
{Rector of Eastham). This is the same record as that in Purton, 
Vol III., p. 33, 1821. 
Vol. III., 1825. 
* Vicia bithynica. Between Chockenhall and Sandling, in Worcester¬ 
shire. Rev. Dr. Ahbot. Cherkenhill and Sandlin, in the parish 
of Leigh. 
* Gnaphalium margaritaceum. By a rivulet in the heart of Wyre 
Forest. Rev. T. Butt. This is the same record as that in the 
Botanists' Guide, 1805. 
f * Inula Helenium. I noticed it in 1795, between Worcester and 
Ludlow. But query in what county ? 
Vol. IV., 1828. 
Epipactis purpurata. See ante, p. 59. 
* E. ensifolia. On the top of Abberley Hill and in Wyre Forest. 
Mr. Moseley. 
From a notice of the life of the late Mr. Edwin Lees, in 
Berrow’s “Worcester Journal” of the 29th October, 1887, 
we learn that in the year 1828 Mr. Lees, who was then a 
printer and stationer in Worcester, published, under the 
name of Ambrose Florence, a stranger’s guide to the city 
and cathedral. I am indebted to my friend, Mr. R. F. 
Towndrow, of Malvern Link, for a description of this book, 
