280 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
Luzula Fosteri. Cotlieridge. Rev. A. Bloxam. 
Eriophorum vaginatum. 
f E. gracile. An error. 
Carex divulsa. 
f Ammophila arundinacea. Must be an error. 
Bromus erectus. 
* Lolium. temulentum. The var. arvense of this species is noticed 
by Purton. 
Senecio squalidus. Walls near the Cathedral, and adjoining the 
river at Worcester. Is inserted in the list on the authority of 
the Rev. A. Bloxam. 
About the time with which we are now dealing, William 
Addison, F.L.S., surgeon to H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, 
was in practice at Malvern. Mr. Lees, in the first edition of 
his “ Botany of the Malvern Hills,” 1848, acknowledges 
his obligations to him. In the second edition of the same 
work, 1852, he mentions that his friend Dr. Addison, F.R.S., 
has now left Malvern. The fourth volume of “ The 
Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical 
Association,” London and Worcester, 1836, contains, p. 82, 
an article by Mr. Addison “ On the Medical Topography, 
Statistics, &c., of Malvern, and of the District at the base of 
the Malvern Hills.” At pages 141 to 146, under the head of 
Appendix No. 1, is “a List of the Rarer Plants indigenous in 
the District.” After the Flowering plants and Ferns is a list 
of Mosses, Hepatic®, and Lichens, for which, as the author 
informs us in a foot note, he was indebted to two very 
accomplished young ladies. The Flowering plants and Ferns 
are 122 species, whether from original observations of Mr. 
Addison, or by whom communicated, there is no evidence to 
show. Certain it is that out of the 122 species all but 8 
were published by Mr. Lees two years previously in the 
catalogue to “Hastings’ Illustrations,” and many of these in 
“Loudon’s Magazine, 1830.” Two more are marked “Lees’ 
Cat.” in Watson’s “New Botanists’ Guide,” 1835. The 
remaining 6 are Spergula arvensis, Angelica sylvestris, Senecio 
lividus, Mentha Pulegium, Holcus mollis, Poa nemoralis. 
Spergula arvensis was noted as a Malvern plant by J. K. 
Walker, “ Medical and Surgical Reporter,” 1828; Mentha 
Pulegium, by Stokes (fide Ballard), 1787 ; Angelica sylvestris 
was noted as a Worcester plant by Pitt, 1810; Senecio 
lividus, Sm., is a form of S. sylvaticus, noted by Purton, 
1817 ; Holcus mollis was noted by Edwin Lees, “ Stranger’s 
Guide,” 1828; Poa nemoralis I believe to be a new county 
record, to be placed to the credit of Mr. Addison. 
