86 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
Newbould, who was associated with Mr. J. G. Baker in the 
editorship of the second edition of Watson’s “ Topographical 
Botany ” (J jondon, 1883), searched, with characteristic industry, 
all the early Floras and made notes of the records referring to 
each county. These notes are contained in a number of 
manuscript books which are happily preserved in the Botanical 
department of the Natural History Museum at South Kensing¬ 
ton. I have derived great assistance from them. 
Our history may conveniently be divided into four periods. 
The first, from the date of the earliest records up to the middle 
of the 18th century ; the second and third, the second half of 
the 18th and the first half of the 19th century; the fourth, 
from 1850 to the present date. 
First Period. Up to 1750. 
The first writer whose name has been mentioned in con¬ 
nection witli Worcestershire Botany is John Leland, the 
Antiquary. His Itineraries began in or about the year 1538, 
and are described in a manuscript preserved in the Bodleian 
Library. A copy in black letter was published by Johan Bale 
in 1549, An edition in nine volumes was published from the 
original MS. by Thomas Hearne (Oxford, 1710—12), and a 
second edition of the same in 1744—5.* 
At page 138 of Mr. Lees’s Botany of Worcestershire is the 
following foot note :— 
“ Leland, the Antiquary, who made his well-known Itinerary 
in the reign of Henry VIII., mentions the Juniper as covering 
Towbury Hill Camp, near Hippie, in the Severn Valley, but 
not a stray individual bush now remains there." 
The passage referred to is, I presume, the following, 
which I quote from Hearne’s 2nd Edition, Yol. VI., p. 71, 
Folio 80:— 
“ Tetbyri Castelle ” 
“ Is a. 2 miles from Theokesbyri, above it, in ripa lseva 
Sabrinae, apon a Cliv with double diclies, in the Paroche of 
Twyning, It is now overgrown with trees and bushes of 
Juniper.” 
The record is interesting, the Juniper being now very rare 
in Worcestershire ; but the interest is diminished by the fact 
that the locality referred to by Leland is in the County of 
Gloucester. 
* See Lowndes “ Bibliographers’ Manual,” Yol. II., p. 1,022; 
Vol. III., p. 1,338. 
