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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
S. arvensis. Humulus Lupulus. 
* Pyrethrum Parthenium. * Tamus communis. 
Achillea Millefolium. 
f Gnaphalium luteo-album. Must be an error. 
The first two numbers of the “Reporter” appeared in the 
same year, 1828, as Win. Ainsworth’s list in the Edinburgh 
Philosophical Journal. I am uncertain which of the two is 
entitled to precedence. The anonymous author in August, 
1828, gives Ulex europ^eus and Ononis arvensis, also noted 
by Ainsworth; J. K. Walker, in November, 1828, gives 
Helianthemum Chamaecistus ( H . vulgare , Gaert) and Cam¬ 
panula rotundifolia, also noted by Ainsworth. 
Spergularia rubra, Hypericum pulchrum, Geranium pusil- 
lum, Spiraea Ulmaria, Solidago Virg-aurea, Betonica offici¬ 
nalis, m Mr. Walker’s list, take precedence of the same 
plants in Mr. Lees’s list in Loudon's Magazine, 1880. 
Geranium Robertianum, Anagallis arvensis, Humulus 
Lupulus, take precedence of the same plants in Scott. 
The 2nd number of the “Reporter” contains at p. 105, 
the following interesting note on the Atropa Belladonna, by 
James Nash, M.D., Worcester:— 
“ I beg leave to state.that the Belladonna 
has grown and flourished upon an old wall, formed of broken 
pieces of red sandstone and iron dross, in the village of 
Lincomb, in the parish of Hartlebury, ever since the recol¬ 
lection of the principal inhabitants, and I have no doubt of 
its genuine wildness.” 
A serial, entitled “ The Worcestershire Miscellany,” 
edited by Mr. Edwin Lees, was published at intervals from 
March, 1829, to March, 1830. Five numbers only appeared, 
which were afterwards collected and a supplement and 
preface added in 1831. A few plants from the Malvern 
Hills and the following plants from Perry Wood, near 
Worcester, are noticed in the first number:— 
* Rhamnus catharticus. 
* Lathyrus sylvestris. 
* Wild Cherry (Prunus Avium). 
* Rosa spinosissima. 
* R. Borreri. 
* Pyrus torminalis. 
P. communis. 
P. Malus. 
Circeea lutetiana. 
Serratula tinctoria. 
Campanula patula. 
Melampyrum vulgatum ( pratense ). 
Daphne Laureola. 
Betula alba. 
Populus tremula. 
Serratula tinctoria and Populus tremula take precedence 
of the records in Scott. • 
Cochlearia groenlandica, mentioned among the Malvern 
plants, as growing on a marshy tract, somewhere on the 
North Hill, is probably an error, as it is not acknowledged in 
the “Botany of Worcestershire.” 
