92 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
which is in the reference department of the Public Library 
in Worcester. It is entitled “ The Stranger's Guide to the 
City and Cathedral of Worcester, including a concise description 
of every remarkable and interesting object contained therein, with 
an account of the Battle of Worcester, and a sketch of the 
principal objects of Natural History observable in the vicinity, 
by Ambrose Florence, Worcester, printed by Edwin Lees, 87, 
High Street, 1828." At pages 152 to 156 is “ A Catalogue of 
Plants growing wild in the vicinity of Worcester,” which Mr. 
Towndrow has been so obliging as to copy for me. As this 
is the first catalogue of plants from the neighbourhood of the 
city, and Mr. Lees’s first contribution to the botany of the 
county, I have thought it worth while to reprint it, simply 
altering the sequence of the species and omitting the English 
names. 
Edwin Lees in Ambrose Florence’s “ Stranger’s Guide,” 
1828:— 
* Ranunculus Lingua. Ockerley Wood, near Holt. The locality 
referred to is Ockeridge Wood. 
* Aquilegia vulgaris. Leigh Sinton. 
Papaver somniferum. Shore of the Severn. 
* Cardamine amara. Side of Laughern Brook. 
* Dianthus Armeria. Clerkenleap Cliff. 
* D. prolifer. Field below Malvern Church. 
A doubtful record. 
* Saponaria officinalis. In a hedge near Mudwall Mill. 
* Montia fontana. Plashy rills on the Worcestershire Beacon, 
Malvern. 
* Geranium lucidum. Top of Merryman’s Hill. 
* Vicia sylvatica. Clifton-on-Teme. 
* Lathyrus Nissolia. Footway to Norton. 
* L. sylvestris. Perry Wood, &c. 
Prunus Cerasus. Wild Cherry Tree, near Gregory’s Mill, &c. 
Must be Prunus Avium, L. 
* P. insititia. Bullace. Hedge at Battenhall. 
* Spiraea Filipendula. West side of Perry Wood. 
* Sanguisorba officinalis. Side of Nunnery Wood. 
* Rubus Idaeus. In a copse at Bevereye. 
* Rosa spinosissima. Abundant in the lane leading to the Virgin’s 
Tavern. 
R. gracilis (a form of Eosa involuta). Thicket near the rill that 
runs from Battenhall Farm ; a most beautiful species. 
* R. villosa. Battenhall and Helbury Hill. 
R. tomentosa. At Bransford, &c. 
