HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
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are to the neighbourhood of Alcester, and of these it is not 
always easy to disentangle the Worcester records from those 
of Warwick. About midway between Alcester and Droitwicli, 
in the county of Worcester, is the little village of Feckenham. 
There was formerly in this neighbourhood a large tract of 
forest, known as “ Feckenham Forest.” The only remnant 
of this in Purton’s time was an extensive moor, about a mile 
south of the village, since drained and enclosed. Some of 
his most interesting records are of the plants of Feckenham 
Moor, of which all the characteristic ones are now extinct. 
Another locality frequently mentioned by Purton is Astwood 
Common, now enclosed, on the Worcester side of the Ridge- 
way south of Redditcli. 
Among Purton’s correspondents were the Rev. W. S. 
Rufford, of Badsey, near Evesham, who furnished records 
of many plants from that part of Worcestershire, and William 
Scott, Esq., of Stourbridge, whose work, “ Stourbridge and its 
vicinity," will be subsequently noticed in these pages. 
Owing to the counties not being distinguished it is 
impossible to treat the notices of the commoner plants as 
Worcester records. The following lists include all the 
species assigned by Purton to the county, together with a few 
others :— 
Purton, “ Midland Flora," Vols. I. and II., 1817. 
Fumaria (Corydalis) lutea, p. 327. Found by the Rev. W. S. Rufford 
on Broadway Hills, Gloucestershire. 
Broadway Hill is in Worcester. 
* F. claviculata, 327. At Malvern, upon the rocks above the village. 
* Cardamine impatiens, 301. Side of Malvern Hill. Hanley Common. 
* Sisymbrium (Nasturtium) sylvestre, 308. Badsey. Rufford. 
Cheiranthus Cheiri, 311. The ruins of the Old Church and Abbey 
Walls of Evesham. 
* Turritis glabra, 313. Sides of hedges, upon hedge banks in the 
lanes about Kidderminster and Stourbridge. 
* Drosera rotundifolia, 166. Bog on Bromsgrove Lickey. West side of 
Malvern Hill. 
Sagina (Moenchia) erecta, 104. Malvern Hill. 
Cerastium arvense, 220. On Broadway Hills. Rufford. 
* Stellaria uliginosa. Cookhill, on some boggy ground. 
Spergula nodosa, 223. Hanley, near Malvern. Rufford. 
Arenaria (Speryularia) marina, 216. Defford Common, between 
Pershore and Upton. Rufford. Almost certainly S. neylecta, 
Syme. Lepiyonum salinum, Kindb. 
Montia fontana, 01. Malvern. In a bog on the west side of the hill. 
Linum Radiola, 165. Astwood Heath. Radiola linoides, Gmel. 
