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SOME NEW LOCAL ROTIFERS. 
* 2. Scirpns romanus. In marshy places near Throgmorton. 
3. Bromus pinnatus, L. Abundantly in almost every rough pasture 
of a clayey soil in the neighbourhood of Great Comberton and 
Persliore. 
42. Osmunda Lunaria, L. On the north side of Breedon Hill in 
several places, particularly above Woollershill in rough ground 
amongst the Pteris aquilina or Common Brakes. 
It is not known who supplied Nash with the above list, 
which appears to be the work of a perfectly competent hand. 
Omitting the Blue Iris as a casual introduction, omitting 
also four plants previously noted, and including the 
Common Brake, it furnishes 89 new County records. It 
anticipated by six years the second edition of Withering to 
which we must now recur. 
This, of which the first two volumes appeared in 1787, 
was edited by Dr. Jonathan Stokes, a Physician residing at 
Kidderminster. We learn from Mr. Edwin Lees (Bot. of 
Wore., p. lxxxix.) that Dr. Stokes subsequently removed to 
Chesterfield where he died in 1831, in his 77th year. Dr. 
Stokes has enriched this edition with many records for the 
Counties of Worcester, Warwick, and Stafford, partly supplied 
from his own observations, partly from those of Withering, 
and partly by numerous correspondents, among whom Mr. 
Ballard, Surgeon, residing near Malvern Wells, appears to 
have been the most serviceable. I have abstracted those 
relating to Worcester and give the following list of them 
omitting those previously given by Bay, Hudson, and Nash, 
which are all included by Stokes. It must be remembered 
that the large Parish of Halesowen, which was in Salop in 
Withering’s time, is now in Worcester. 
(To be continued.) 
SOME NEW LOCAL BOTIFEBS. 
By P. H. Gosse, F.B.S., Hon. F.B.M.S. 
From the Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, 
December 8th, 1886. 
The following species of Botifera were discovered either 
too late to be included in Dr. Hudson’s work, or since that 
work was published. They are described with brevity, but, 
I hope, with precision sufficient for identification and differ¬ 
entiation. 
