258 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. Nov., 1890. 
• Erodium maritimum, p. 752. Clent, opposite the Church, at the 
foot of the hills. 
Elatine hexandra, p. 755. In a millpond near Churchill, Worces¬ 
tershire. 
E. hydropiper. In a millpond near Churchill Railway Station ; 
with the former. 
At page 885 of the same volume of the Phytologist, April, 
1858, is a paper by Mr. Irvine “ On the Botany of the Clent 
Hills,” in which he describes the rarer plants of the neigh¬ 
bourhood, including most of those quoted above from the 
Handbook. 
Scrophularia Ehrharti is not mentioned, and I conclude that the 
record in the Handbook is an error. 
Epipactis media is a new record, unless it be the same plant as 
E. purpurata of Smith. “ Uffmoor Forest ” should be “ Uff- 
moor Wood.” This species has been gathered by the writer, 
not in Uffmoor Wood only, but in nearly every wood in the 
upper valley of the Stour. Mr. Irvine considers it identical 
with E. purpurata. See Handbook, p. 323 ; see also English 
Botany, 3rd Edit., Yol. IX., p. 123. Mr. Watson combines 
the E. media of the Manual with E. purpurata and E. violacea. 
See Top. Bot., 1st Edit., p. 372. 
Erodium maritimum. Has not been seen at Clent by any other 
botanist. 
The two Elatines are a puzzle. “In one millpond near 
Churchill Station,” writes Mr. Irvine, in the Phytologist, 
p. 401, “we had the good hap to discover both our Water 
Pepperworts.” Every millpond near Churchill Station has 
been repeatedly searched by competent botanists, without 
yielding the slightest trace of either species. We find, 
nevertheless, in Watson’s Topographical Botany, p. 77, under 
the head of Elatine Hydropiper, “ Worcester, Irvine, sp.” 
Moreover, Irvine’s specimens of this species, communicated 
to Mr. Watson, are in the Watsonian Collection in the Her¬ 
barium at Kew. It is difficult to understand why specimens 
of E. hexandra were not sent to Mr. Watson with those of 
the other species. 
The third and fourth volumes, 1858-60, do not contain any 
matter relevant to the county of Worcester. 
In Vol. V., July, 1861, p. 219, is a notice of a meeting of 
the Worcestershire Naturalists’ Club, held at Malvern on the 
15th of May, when Poterium muricatum and Gagea lutea 
were gathered. This is the first county record for Pot. 
muricatum, which was discovered near the Wycli by the Rev. 
J. H. Thompson. It will appear shortly that there is an 
earlier record for Gagea lutea 
In Yol. IV., August, 1862, under date 20th June, 1862, 
Mr. Geo. Jorden records the destruction by fire, in 1855, of 
the old Sorb Tree of Wyre Forest, Pyrus domestica, Sm. See 
Botany of Worcestershire, p. 74. 
