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Sorbus pyriformis, D. Pitts ; which I suspect to be no other 
than the Sorbus sativa, C. B. legitinia, Park. That is the 
true or manured Service or Sorb-tree. Found by the said Mr. 
Pitts in a forest of this County. 
Triticum majus glumae foliaceae seu Triticuni Polonicum, D. Bobert. 
An Triticum speciosum grano oblongo, J. B. ■? Polonian 
Wheat. It is found in the fields in this County, and as Dr. Plot 
tells us, in Staffordshire also.” 
These are the plants now known as Colchicum autumnale, 
L., Cynoglossum montanum, Lam., Pyrus domestica, 8m., 
Triticum Polonicum, L. The latter is a cultivated wheat, and 
need not further engage our attention. 
In 1722, Bishop Gibson published a second edition of his 
version of Camden but, in this, Kay’s lists are simply reprinted 
verbatim. 
The second edition of the Synopsis, published in 1696, 
contains no additional records ; nor yet does the 3rd edition, 
published in 1724, 19 years after Ray’s death. We read, 
however, in the latter, under the head of the Meadow 
Saffron, “ In the Parish of Mathon in the Meadows under the 
Malverne Hills in Worcestershire plentifully, Mr. Manning ham,.” 
It is remarkable that Ray should have passed over with¬ 
out notice the records of How and Merret, and annoying that 
he should leave us in doubt whether the Worcester 
Apothecary and Alderman spelt his name with or without 
the s. 
The Botanical works of the first half of the eighteenth 
Century yield, so far as I can ascertain, a single addition only 
to the Worcester Census, but it is one of great interest. In 
the Hortus Elthamensis of Dillenius, 1732, is a plate (Tab. lviii.) 
of Campanula patula, with the record (fol. 69), 
“ Sponte nascentem reperi inter dumeta collis cujusdam 
sylvosi prope Worcestriam, (in a wood called Elbury 
Hill, about a mile from Worcester).” 
The discovery is referred to by Richard Pulteney, in his 
“ Account of some of the more rare English Plants observed in 
Leicestershire ,” in the Phil. Trans, for the year 1756-57, see 
Vol. XLIX, Part II., p. 815 ; and again in his Catalogue of 
Leicestershire plants, contained in the first volume of the 
“ History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester ,” by John 
Nichols, 1795. In the latter work, at p. clxxix, we read, 
under Campanula patula, 
“ First discovered in England, by Mr. Brewer, in 1726, 
near Worcester, as recorded by Dr. Dillenius.” 
The history of this period is fitly concluded by the 
“ Specimen Botanicurn ” of John Blackstone. Its complete title 
