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But the time came all too quickly when I also had to 
migrate and to join the great stream of tourists who were 
hurrying back to their winter quarters along the Great 
Western line of migration. And so, one morning, instead of 
going up to sun ourselves on the cliffs, and drink in the fresh¬ 
ness of the soft, salt Atlantic breeze, we journey down to 
Barnstaple, and in due time exchange the twitter of the 
Linnets and Martins, the insect hum, and the gentle sough of 
the sea, for the rattle and roar and thunder of the great 
express, which carries us through the fair west country, until, 
when the afternoon is waning, we get out at the busy Berk¬ 
shire junction to branch off in a northern direction towards 
our own Midland habitat. 
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
BY WM. MATHEWS, M.A. 
(Continued from page 165.) 
We now enter on the last chapter in our history, viz., the 
period from the year 1851 to the present time. I prefer to 
treat of it at once, and to reserve for future discussion the new 
records of the previous half-century. 
We commence with the 2nd edition of the “ Botanical 
Looker-out” of Mr. Edwin Lees. The 1st edition was 
published in 1842, the second in 1851. This work contains a 
description of the vegetation characteristic of each month in the 
year in various parts of England and Wales ; the 2nd edition 
including, among others, a few Worcester records. Among 
these the most interesting are those contained on p. 181, in 
a description of the vegetation of Sapey Brook, especially of 
that part of it between Upper and Lower Sapey, in the parish 
of Clifton-on-Teme. Among a long list of rarities Mr. Lees 
gives the following additions to the Malvern Flora. 
* Geum urbanum. 
Geum intermedium. 
* Carex strigosa. 
This is the first notice of Geum intermedium as a 
Worcester plant. My herbarium contains a specimen from 
the Sapey locality, gathered in May, 1848. 
The 2nd edition of Mr. Lees’s “Flora of the Malvern 
Hills ” bears, at the end of the preface, the date “ August, 
1852.” We are introduced in this volume to manv botanists 
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