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and comfortable. One very well-known kind of Tinea is the 
Clothes’ Moth ; there are about a dozen different species of 
these, and I need not tell vou that their domiciles are little 
galleries, ingeniously constructed in your best woollen articles 
of attire, with a special partiality for sealskin. I will not 
describe them ail; but the commonest is a little, pretty, white¬ 
shouldered moth, of which I have brought a specimen. They 
never attack, as the ladies know, any clothes which are in 
use; it is those that are laid aside in a drawer that are assailed. 
I will ask you to look at this moth so as to know him again ; 
I have so frequently seen the most innocent vegetable-feeding 
moths slain as Clothes’ Moths that I feel quite sensitive on 
this subject, and wish the blame to be laid, and the penalty 
to fall, on the right shoulders. 
With this domicile I close my paper, and I have the 
satisfaction of feeling that, if all the rest is useless, in showing 
the Clothes’ Moth I have, at least, given one practical bit of 
information which may be new to some here, and will prevent 
them from henceforth laying murderous hands upon the 
guiltless. 
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
BY WM. MATHEWS. M . A . 
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[Continued from page 260.) 
1884, 1885, 1886. Published in 1887. 
* Ranunculus penicillatus (Hiern). R. pseudo-fluitans. River 
Cole, Yardley. Anticipated. 
* Potentilla verna. Towndrow. “Little Malvern.” Not new. 
Edwin Lees, “ New Botanists’ Guide ” ; see “ Mid. Nat.,” Yol. 
XI., 279. 
Rosa scabriuscula. Smith. Var. of R. tomentosa, E. F. Linton, 
Bromsgrove Lickey; name certified by J. G. Baker. First 
record. 
R. obtusifolia, Desv. Var. of R. canina, E. F. Linton. Broms¬ 
grove. First record. 
R. verticillacantha, Merat. Yar. of R. canina, E. F. Linton. 
Barnt Green. First record. This removes the ambiguity in 
Edwin Lees’s “ Bot. Wor.,” Add. and Corr., see “ Mid. Nat.,” 
Yol. XIV., p. 111. 
* Epilobium eu-tetragonum, Linn. Towndrow. “ Newland,” near 
Malvern. I think this cannot be new, though certainly it is a 
confirmatory record. E. tetragonum, L., is recorded by Skeward, 
Nash’s “ Supplement,” 1799. “ Foot of Malvern Hill.” Ed. 
Lees’s “ Bot. Wor.,” Tab. 11. In all the districts. Unlocalised. 
“Mid. Nat.,” Yol. XIV., p. 111. Witley Court plantations, 
1845, Wm. M.; Sp.! 
