172 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTAinY OF WORCESTER. 
Melampyrum pratense, 545. In the woods near the road from 
Birmingham to Halesowen. 
Nepeta Cataria, 519. Dudley Castle. 
* Melissa Calamintha, 538. Dudley Castle. 
* Polygonum pallidum, 381. Yar. 3. Stems spotted with red. In 
a ditch on Stourbridge Common. St. 
This is the P. pensylvanicurn, var. petechiale, of 
Stokes. In later editions of Withering it appears 
as a variety of P. lapathifolium. It is almost 
certainly P. maculatum , Dyer. 
TJlmus campestris, 278. Plentiful in Worcestershire. 
Carex ampullacea, 110. Mill below Droitwich. Mr. Baker. 
Poa maritima, 147. Near the Canal from Droitwich to the Severn. 
Mr. Baker. 
This is the first record of a maritime plant in the 
saline waters of Droitwich. 
Festuca duriuscula, 153. Walls of Dudley Castle. 
Asplenium Ruta-muraria, 769. Walls at Bewdley. 
Polypodium Oreopteris, 775. In a wood at Old Foot’s Well near 
Bromsgrove. Miss Bead. 
“Old Foots ” Well is doubtless a misnomer for 
Offad's Well, between “ the Valley ” and Dodford. 
P. aculeatum, 777. In a ditch in a meadow in the Valley near 
Bromsgrove. Miss Bead. 
P. fragile, 779. Boad from Bourn Heath to Worms Ash near 
Bromsgrove, Miss Bead. 
The above list yields 19 new County records in addition 
to those previously published by Dr. Stokes. 
I have failed to identify the locality called Broadmoor. 
As it is described by Stokes as “ 3 miles S.W. of Birming¬ 
ham,” and by Withering as “ near Halesowen,” I conclude it 
to be in the County of Worcester. 
In 1799, Nash published a supplement to his History. 
This contains, at p. 96, an additional list, as to which Nash 
states that “ The following plants were observed in Worcestershire 
by my ingenious friend Dr. Sheward, whose untimely death was a 
great loss to the Infirmary, to the science of medicine , and to the 
public in general .” Forty-seven species are enumerated in the 
list. Of these, two are Fungi—the Morell and the Truffle; 
seventeen are new or independent records of plants previously 
noted by Stokes. The remaining twenty-eight are as follows: — 
Sheward in Nash’s Supplement, 1799. 
Dianthus deltoides. Blackstone Bock, near Bewdley. 
* Hypericum dubium. First found in Worcestershire about Sapey ; 
found since in many other places, as Witley and Martley, 
growing plentifully by the road side ; often mixed with H. 
perforatum. 
