description may, indeed, be made by the use of local names, the collector being supposed at the place and able to inquire his way from others. But if one at a distance is desirous of forming county or parochial lists, of drawing a botanical map, or of tracing the connections between the vegetation and physical features of the country, in such cases he will often feel perplexed by the want of indications sufficiently explanatory. In event of not obtaining these, he is compelled either to omit the incomplete descriptions, or to introduce them in such general (which means vague) terms as will comprehend the whole space, within some part of which the localities must lie. On this account, it has been several times intimated, that while the botanical stations in this work were nominally arranged into county lists, such lists might include stations really beyond the proper boundaries. After all, it is of no consequence whatever, whether botanical lists refer to spaces exactly agreeing with the political divisions of Britain, or to some other definite areas, provided the circumstance be stated so as to prevent mistakes from the names of the counties respectively heading each list. For example, the including of a small portion of Somersetshire along with Gloucestershire, under the general head of "Gloucestershire and Bristol," makes no confusion of those stations which are specified with exactness, while it allows of the introduction of others which could not with certainty have been referred to either county taken singly, such as "banks of the Avon," "meadows near Bristol," &c. &c. CLEMATIS Vitalba. On Brockeridge Common near Twining; hedges between Tewkesbury and Deerhurst. E. Lees, mss. Hedges near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. ADONIS autumnalis. Corn fields near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. HELLEBORUS viridis. Near the head of the St. Catherine valley, near Bath, but on the Gloucestershire side of the brook the place is incorrectly described in the Flora Bathonensis. C. C. Babington, mss. Cranham Wood, near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. CARDAMINE impatiens. Stapleton Quarries, near Bristol. J. Ander son, mss. amara. Lees, mss. Side of the Ledden river near Pauntley. E. TURRITIS glabra. Waste places near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. NASTURTIUM sylvestre. Banks of the Avon at Tewkesbury. E. Lees, mss. BRASSICA campestris. Banks of ditches near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. VIOLA Suavis. King John's Walk, near Tewkesbury. E. Lees, mss. TILIA grandifolia. Bromsberrow. E. Lees, mss. parvifolia. At the Brownsend near Bromsberrow. mss. E. Lees, Banks of the Berkeley Canal, Gloucester. G. S. ONONIS spinosa. LATHYRUS latifolius. (Instead of "apparently," I think it might with safety be put "undoubtedly wild," in Stapleton Quarries. J. Anderson, mss. Page 189.) LOTUS tenuis. (Add “ Eng. Fl.” after" St. Vincent's Rocks.”. 190., first line.) - Page MEDICAGO maculata. Stapleton Quarries, near Bristol. J. Ander son, mss. SANGUISORBA officinalis. Banks of the Berkeley Canal, and Robin's In great plenty Wood Hill, Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. ROSA inodora. On Shutonger Common, near Twining, two miles tomentosa. PYRUS communis. RIBES rubrum. G. S. Wintle, mss. G. S. Wintle, mss. Woody spot beyond the Gander-lane bridge over the river Swilgate, Tewkesbury. E. Lees, mss. SEDUM dasyphyllum. Clifton. G. Rogers, sp. APIUM graveolens. Side of the Cheltenham road, near Coomb Hill. E. Lees, mss. In the ditch by the road side at Saint's G. S. Wintle, mss. Bridge. SILAUS pratensis. PASTINACA sativa. mss. Avon Ham, Tewkesbury. E. Lees, mss. Frequent about Gloucester. G. S. Wintle. VIBURNUM Lantana. Hedges near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. VISCUM album. On Hawthorns, &c. near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle. mss. RUBIA peregrina. (Erase "Watchett and Dunster." - Page 190.) DIPSACUS Fullonum. At the foot of Robin's Wood Hill, near the Stroud Road, Gloucester, being cultivated in the neighbourhood. G. S. Wintle, mss. VALERIANA rubra. mss. Old walls near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. Robin's Wood Hill, near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, ONOPORDUM Acanthium. near Twining. CAMPANULA patula. mss. Between Rockeridge Common and Ripple. Side of a lane near Bromsberrow. E. Lees, Trachelium. Old lane under King John's Walk, Mithe, near Tewkesbury, and lower Lode Lane. E. Lees, mss. Cranham Wood, near (Chosen?) Hill, Gloucester. G.S. Wintle, mss. glomerata. Hills above Cheltenham. mss. Robin's Wood Hill, near Gloucester. mss. PYROLA rotundifolia. Slade and Randwick Woods. W. H. Darby, Walk. Oxf. Walk. Oxf. G. S. Wintle, mss. CUSCUTA europea. (Goosey?) Lane, Gloucester. CYNOGLOSSUM sylvaticum. Deerhurst Lane, Tewkesbury. E. Lees mss. ATROPA Belladonna. In an old stone-pit, close by the Painswick road, near Cranham Wood. G. S. Wintle, mss. DATURA Stramonium. Near Beecham, Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, G. S. Wintle, mss. G. S. Wintle, mss. Corn fields near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, VERONICA spicata. Hedge bank by the road at Saint's Bridge, Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. (These two plants are rare, and not very likely to occur here. They should be verified by comparison with specimens from some other place.) MENTHA piperita. Rills under Bredon Hill, about Kimmerton. E. Lees, mss. sylvestris. Banks of the Twiver or Poplar River, near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. CALAMINTHA officinalis. Gloucester. LAMIUM maculatum. Lane under King John's Walk, near Robin's Wood Hill, and lanes at Upton, near (The plant so named, is merely a variety of L. album, and very different from L. maculatum of the gardens. Mr. J. Anderson. - Page 191.) OROBANCHE minor. (Erase "sp."- Page 191.) PRIMULA elatior. At Forthampton west, of Tewkesbury. E. Lees, mss. Highnam Wood, near Saint's Bridge, Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. EUPHORBIA amygdaloides. Highnam Wood. MERCURIALIS annua. field, mss. G. S. Wintle, mss. A noxious weed about Bristol. W. A. Brom POPULUS canescens. Near Moreton in the Marsh; about Bourton; Lower Lode Lane leading to the Severn, below Tewkesbury. E. Lees, mss. SALIX triandra. Willow-bed close to the Severn, below King John's SAGITTARIA sagittifolia. In the river Avon, between Tewkesbury and G. S. Wintle, mss. HERMINIUM Monorchis. Bank near Rodborough Common. Walk. Oxf. OPHRYS apifera. On the bank of the Berkeley Canal; also at Cranham Wood, in a blue clay. G. S. Wintle, mss. NARCISSUS Pseudo-narcissus. Covering the whole declivity of a hilly meadow in the forest of Dean, closeto the mail road from Gloucester to Ross. E. Lees, mss. In an orchard near Saint's Bridge. G. S. Wintle, mss. biflorus. In an old orchard at Pill. J. Anderson, mss. TAMUS communis. Deerhurst Lane, Tewkesbury. COLCHICUM autumnale. Covering numerous fields bury and Cheltenham. E. Lees, mss. E. Lees, mss. between TewkesIn the meadows by the Severn, near Gloucester, abundantly. mss. G. S. Wintle, LEMNA trisulca and polyrhiza. Near Gloucester. G. S. Wintle, mss. XXVI. WORCESTERSHIRE. HELLEBORUS viridis. In a retired lane near Cotheridge. E. Lees, mss. (Read "Glasshampton."- Page 194.) ACONITUM Napellus. Eastham Hill, several plants at the root of an alder, in marshy ground at the elevation of 500 or 600 feet, in a truly wild spot. E. Lees, sp. Teesdalia nudicaulis. Hartlebury Common. E. Lees, sp. "Giant's Grave."-Page 195.) (Read LEPIDIUM Smithii. On the summit of Helbury Hill, behind Dryadville Cottage. E. Lees, mss. (Dryadville Cottage is the residence of Mr. Lees, and near Worcester.) CARDAMINE impatiens. (Read" Dudley" for " Duley.”—Page 195.) amara. At Redmarley, on the banks of the Ledden Brook. E. Lees, mss.. TURRITIS glabra. Hartlebury. E. Lees, sp. Chester Lane, and in a lane near Crane's of Abberley, Kidderminster; also on the road side between Kidderminster and Caddesley Corbet. VIOLA Suavis. In an orchard at Warndon, about a mile from my house; also near Bransford, in a coppice. E. Lees, mss. (Mr. Lees says, "Though at Warndon my specimens growing together were all 'suavis;' yet finding 'odorata' mixed therewith at Bransford, I have doubts as to any permanent difference between them. I think odorata has sometimes beardless petals.") TILIA parvifolia. Various old trees on the sides of Old Storage Hill. E. Lees, sp. (Mr. Lees objects to any sign of doubtful nativity being affixed to the name of this species, and says that "in a natural wood at Shrawley, of 500 acres in extent, a great part of the underwood periodically felled, and the stumps of which are mossy with age, consists of this species.") grandifolia. In a wood on the banks of the Severn, between Hawford and Ombersley. E. Lees, mss. HYPERICUM Androsæmum. In a wood by Picket Rock, near Kidderminster. Mag. Nat. Hist. iv. * montanum. In a wood on Abberley Hill, west of Abberley Church; also at Picket Rock, near Kidderminster. Mag. Nat. Hist. A series of botanical stations for this county were published in the Magazine of Natural History, by Mr. Perry, but were overlooked in compiling the former volume of this Work. Most of them relate to the commoner plants of England. ERODIUM maritimum. On the heath at Picket Rock, near Kidderminster. Mag. Nat. Hist. GENISTA pilosa. (This must be expunged, it having been inserted on the authority of Scott's Stourbridge, and probably G. anglica being intended. Mr. Lees. - Page 196.) ONOBRYCHIS Sativa. Near a wood on Abberley Hill, west of Abberley Church. Mag. Nat. Hist. VICIA angustifolia. In a swamp on the north side of Falling Sands Common, Kidderminster; and in a field between Kidderminster and Picket Rock. Mag. Nat. Hist. RUBUS suberectus. Bog on Hartlebury Common. E. Lees, mss. POTENTILLA argentea. On the top of the rock at Foxholes, and on a rock by the road-side at Wolverley, near Kidderminster; also on rocks by the road-side between Kidderminster and Bewdley. Mag. Nat. Hist. COMARUM palustre. Oldfield, near Ombersley. Mag. Nat. Hist. Rosa spinosissima. Very common in Worcestershire; about Helbury and Lepard Hills; Cruck barrow Hill; Brediot Common; Battenhall; side of Cracombe Hill, near Evesham. Lees, sp. Sabini. (Read "Crookbarrow Hill."- Page 198.) E. PYRUS torminalis. Summit of Blackstone Rock, a mass of sandstone COTYLEDON Umbilicus. On Picket Rock, and about Foxholes, near ENANTHE apiifolia. In ditches of a field near the Teme at Stanford. E. Lees, mss. DIPSACUS pilosus. Blackstone Rock, near Bewdley. Mag. Nat. Hist. PRENANTHES muralis. Blackstone Rock, and Rock Wood, near Bewdley; in a wood by Picket Rock, and Summer Hill, near Kidderminster; Rock Hill, one mile and a half from: Broomsgrove on the road to Alcester. Mag. Nat. Hist. Kidderminster; in a HIERACIUM sylvaticum. Summer Hill, near lane leading from Foxholes towards Kidderminster; Rock Wood, Burnt Wood, and Wassel Wood, near Bewdley. Mag. Nat. Hist. ONOPORDUM Acanthium. A fine forest of this magnificent thistle at Claines, two miles north of Worcester, in 1836. E. Lees, mss. CNICUS acaulis. In fields between Kidderminster and Picket Rock. Mag. Nat. Hist. pratensis. (This I have never met with in Worcestershire; and the locality given for it, at Upton Snodsbury, is a mistake. Mr. Lees.-Page 201.) |
