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HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. Jan., 1891. 
xxviii. Plants not truly native, introduced designedly or 
furtively. 
xxxii. Plants becoming rare or extinct, 
xxxiii. Conspicuous vegetation, 
xxxvii. Old forest trees, 
xli. Critical plants. 
liii. Census. Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Characese, 992. 
lxiv. Physical geography. 
lxxii. Rainfall and temperature. 
lxxvi. Rainfall. 
lxxx. Winds and their effects. 
lxxxii. Worcestershire compared with Herefordshire, 
lxxxviii. Worcestershire Botanists and Botanical authors. 
Under the head of critical plants, p. xli., Mr. Lees 
describes, inter alia, Valerianella eriocarpa, Desv., gathered by 
him on the 29th August, 1842, by the side of the road between 
New Pool and Hanley Turnpike Gate, below Malvern Wells. 
This plant is noted in the 1st edition of the Botany of the 
Malvern Hills, 1848, as Fedia mixta, and in the 2nd edition, 
1852. as Fedia dentata, var. mixta. 
The above is the only occasion on which the plant has been 
seen in Britain. See Bot. Mai. Hills, 3rd edit., p. 44 ; Bab. 
Man., 5th edit., 1862, p. 165 ; Syme E. Bot., 3rd edit., Yol. 
IY., 1865. p. 244. The first notice of the plant as V. 
eriocarpa was probably by Babington in 1862. 
The second part of the work is entitled “ The Local 
Distribution of the Plants of Worcestershire,” and occupies 
the pages from 1 to 147. The author divides the county into 
four Botanical districts, viz.:— 
1. The Severn Valley. 
2. The Malvern Hills and Valley of the Teme. 
3. The Avon and Lias Country. 
4. Bromsgrove Lickey and the intervening district to 
Birmingham, Halesowen, Stourbridge, and Dudley. 
The author describes the most interesting Botanical 
localities in each district, and the rarer plants which occur 
in them. 
The third is a tabulated list of all the plants in each 
Botanical district, with an appendix on the Bubi, pp. 1 to 48. 
This is followed by three pages of Additions and 
Corrections. 
List of the principal plants noted in Lees’s Botany of 
Worcestershire. District is denoted by the letter D. The 
four districts are contracted into Avon, Severn, Malvern, and 
Lickey :— 
J Anemone Pulsatilla. 104, Avon. Snowshill, Gloucester. Tab. 3. 
+ A. apennina. xxviii. Tab. 3. Not native. 
♦ Adonis autumnalis, lviii. Tab. 3. Marked as extinct. 
Ranunculus caenosus (Lenormandi). Tab. 3. Lickey district. No 
locality given. Not noted elsewhere in volume. 
