HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
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* Festuca Calamaria (F. sylvatica, Vill.), 12. Communicated by 
Thomas Slirawley Vernon, Esq., who showed me a plant 
growing in his shrubbery, at Astley, near Stourport, Worces¬ 
tershire, which he had removed the year before from the wood 
pointed out by the original discoverer, W. M. Moseley, Esq., of 
Winterdyne. Mr. Moseley informs me that he discovered 
Festuca Calamaria in Slirawley Wood in the year 1801, and 
sent a specimen to Dr. Smith for his inspection. He found it, 
not rare, in a particular part of the wood, though never pro¬ 
ducing a flowering stem, except where the coppice wood was 
recently cut and the plant exposed to the sun. 
Aspidium Filix-foemina, 79. Burcot, and the wet lanes near Broms- 
grove Lickey. Very common. T. P. 
27 plants are enumerated in the above list, of which 8 are 
previous records. From the residue of 19 we must further 
deduct Melampyrum cristatum as a probable error, Scirpus 
carinatus as a probable error and a Stafford record, and 
Potamogeton compresses as insufficiently identified. There 
remain 16 new County records to be credited to Purton’s 
Appendix, 1821. Some of Purton’s names of places require 
correction in spelling. “ Spechley ” is now usually spelt 
Spetchley, and “Headley’s Cross” should be Headless Cross. 
“ A Description of Malvern,” by Mary Southall, contains 
a list of “ Plants growing at Malvern and in the neighbour¬ 
hood.” I have only seen the second edition, in which the list 
is printed at p. 215. The preface is dated August, 1825. 
The first edition was probably published a year or two earlier. 
The list contains 25 flowering plants. The majority of these 
are old records. The following are worth notice :— 
Potentilla verna. Limestone rocks upon the western side of the hill. 
Whether in Worcester or Hereford is not stated. 
This species is known as a Worcester plant at 
Wynd's Point on the eastern side, and as a 
Herefordshire plant on the western side of the 
hills. I fear the record belongs to Hereford. 
* Orchis (Gymnadenia) conopsea. Upon the western side of the hills. 
Orchis ustulata. In meadows about the foot of the hills. 
If we do not admit Potentilla verna, the list yields only 
Orchis ustulata as a new record. It still grows at West 
Malvern. 
Mr. W. Gr. Perry, of Warwick, bookseller, the author of 
“ Plantes Varoicenses Selectee,” 1820, communicated to Loudon’s 
Magazine of Natural History, Yol. IV., 1881, p. 450, a list of 
the rarer plants of Worcester. The list is dated Warwick, 
March 12, 1880, and is stated to contain only plants which 
were observed and gathered by himself in 1812, 1818, 1816, 
