170 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
Part II., containing the Cryptogams, with title page to the 
whole volume, bears date 1792. The only references in Yol. 3, 
germane to this history, are the following :— 
Stokes in Withering. Edit. 2, Vol. 3, 1792. 
Trifolium flexuosum, Jacq., p. cxxvi. Worcestershire. St. (T. 
medium , L .) 
Ophrys ovata, cxxvii. Hurcot Wood. St. (Listera ovata, R. Br.) 
Ophioglossum vulgatum, p. 45. Broadmoore, near Birmingham. 
With. 
* Osmunda Lunaria, 46. Coal Pit Banks, near Stourbridge. Mr. 
Waldron Hill. Whether in Worcester or Stafford is not stated. 
Polypodium vulgare, 55. (3. Wings doubly serrated. Worcestershire. 
St. 
Adding the 4 new records in this list to the 105 in the 
previous one, it appears that Dr. Stokes contributed 109 
species to the Worcester Census, chiefly on the authority of 
Mr. Ballard, besides publishing new localities for plants 
previously noted. If he had also recorded the commoner 
species he would have laid the foundation for a complete 
Flora of the County. 
I find that the Snowdrop, Gfalantlius nivalis, was first re¬ 
corded by Withering in the first edition of his Bot. Arr., 1776, 
appendix, p. 783 (bis), as “ growing plentifully at the foot of 
Malvern Hills, Worcestershire,” on the authority, as we learn 
from Stokes, of Mr. Ballard. My friend Mr. Towndrow 
informs me that the locality is in the County of Hereford, 
and that the plant still grows there. 
The names of the localities in Dr. Stokes’s list differ 
somewhat from those by which the same places are now 
known. Robinson’s End is Robert’s End, and the cluster of 
houses there Robert’s End Street. Clarkton Leap is Clerken- 
leap, near Kempsey. The Ridd should be the Rhydd, and the 
Blankets the Blanquettes. 
In the year 1789 a new edition of Camden’s Britannia, 
by Richard Gough, was published, in 3 vols. fol. This work 
is cited by Dr. Trimen, in the article previously referred to, 
among “ the Botanical Bibliography of the British Counties.” 
The Editor states in the preface, p. v., that the want of 
“ a formal catalogue of plants 'peculiar to each County" . . . . 
“ has, I trust, been in some measure supplied by the help of some 
young friends who have exerted their utmost diligence in collecting 
the plants peculiar to each County from books and from the 
researches of themselves and other Botanists, who have multiplied 
since Bay in the same proportion that science has improved .” 
The curious inquirer, who turns to the Worcester list, in 
