HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 283 
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
BY WM. MATHEWS, M. A. 
(Continued from page 261.) 
A List of Malvern Plants, appended to a paper by Mr. 
Wm. Ainsworth, M.R.C.S., entitled “ A Sketch of the 
Physical Geography of the Malvern Hills,” in Jameson’s 
“Edinburgh Philosophical Journal” for 1828, pp. 99—100, 
has been kindly extracted for me by Mr. Druce, of Oxford. 
It should, as well as the List next in order, have preceded 
that of Perry. 
It contains, among others, the following records :— 
Cistus Helianthemum. (II. vulgare.) 
•j- C. polifolius. (H. poUfolium.) Must be an error. 
Ulex europaeus. 
* TJ. nanus. This is U. Gallii. Planch. 
* Genista anglica. Scattered about the Hills. 
Spartium scoparium. Little Malvern. 
Ononis arvensis. 
Campanula rotundifolia. 
f Polygonum viviparum. An error. 
* Orchis ustulata. 
0. (Habenaria) bifolia. Almost certainly H. chlorantha. Bab. 
The List, from which the above is an extract, contains 36 
plants, of which 6 are new records. 
The name of my friend, Mr. Edwin Lees, of Worcester, 
a name more intimately connected with the botany of 
his county than that of any other writer, must now be 
introduced into this history. His first botanical work was a 
catalogue of the “ Plants on the Malvern Hills,” made in the 
year 1829, and published in Loudon’s “ Magazine of Natural 
History,” Yol. III., 1830, p. 160.* This record should have 
taken precedence of that of Perry, which was published in 
Yol. IV., 1831, of the same work, although Perry’s observa¬ 
tions were for the most part made earlier than those of Mr. 
Lees. Unfortunately I did not find Mr. Lees’s article until 
Perry’s List had gone to press. There is another paper by 
Mr. Lees in Vol. IV. of the same periodical, p. 437, m which 
a few Worcester plants are mentioned, but it will be 
unnecessary to refer to them in this place. Mr. Lees has 
* Mr. Lees published a previous List in 1828, which will be referred 
to hereafter. 
