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BOTANY The following twenty-one plants are peculiar to the Avon district, not having been found elsewhere in Worcestershire, and the first and last of them only doubtfully recorded. Anemone Pulsatilla, Ranunculus tripartitus, Glaucium luteum, Thlaspi perfoliatum, Linuni angustifolium. Astragalus hypoglottis, Hippocrepis comosa, Saxifraga hypnoides, Lythrum hyssopifolia, Asperula cynanchica, Cnicus acaulis, Limnanthemum peltatum, Cuscuta epithymum, Calamintha Nepeta, Chenopodium hybridum. Euphorbia platyphyllos, Buxus sempervirens, Alisma ranunculoides, Cladium Mariscus, Festuca uniglumis and Polypodium Robertianum. (ii.) The Severn district is a strip down the centre of the whole of the county, broad in the north, where it extends from the western limit of Bewdley Forest to the point where the Stour becomes the county boundary in the east ; from this point to Tardebigge it abuts on the Lickey district ; and then turning south it is bounded as far as Tewkesbury by the Avon district. Of the western side, the northern portion is irregular until the boundary meets the Teme, after which it follows southward the course of that river and of the Severn, and the district ends in a narrow point opposite Tewkesbury. The northern part is chiefly on the New Red Sandstone, but by far the greater portion consists of the Red Marl. There are several interesting botanical localities in this district. On the left bank of the Severn at Hawford, the canal from Droitwich falls into the river. Between Hawford and Dodderhill church may be found on its banks, or near thereto, Apium graveolens, Atriplex laciniata, Carum segetum, Geranium perenne (in quantity on the railway embankments near Droitwich railway station), Glaux maritima, Glyceria distans, Lepidium latifolium (abundantly by the Salwarpe at Droitwich), Lepidium ruderale, Medicago maculata, Myosurus minimus {18^2), Pimpinella major. Ranunculus parvijlorus, Saponaria officinalis, Senebiera Coronopus, Spergularia salina, Triglochin palustre and Verhascum nigrum. Daphne Laureola and Lonicera Xylosteum occur by the lake in Westwood Park. Valisneria spiralis, the occurrence of which cannot be accounted for, was found shortly before 1877, inhabiting a pond in a brickyard at Northwick near Worcester, but none remains in the county except in the form of specimens in the Museum at Worcester. Following up the left bank of the Severn to Stourport, in the angle between it and the river Stour is Hartlebury Common, a wild space of land consisting of two distinct tracts — a sandy waste at the top of a steep bluff, and a moor-like expanse at the bottom of it. The sandy summit is covered with Calluna vulgaris, and here 'grow Botrychium Lunaria, Diplotaxis tenutfoUa, Erodium maritimum, Hypocharis glabra, Lycopodium clavatum, L. inundatum, Ornithopus perpusillus, Plantago Coronopus, Silene conica, Spergularia rubra and Teesdalia nudicaulis. The lower portion of the common is a pallid similitude of a Highland moor, with similar peaty cracks filled with stagnant water, and nourishing weak specimens of similar plants. Here are to be found Drosera rotundifolia in abundance reddening the ground, Eriophorum polystachion, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, Pedicularis palustris, and Viola palustris. One small pool is entirely filled with a mass of Potentilla Comarum and Menyanthes trifoliata. On the drier parts of the low ground, Anthemis nobilis, Marrubium vulgare, Sedum acre, Sisymbrium Sophia, Trifolium striatum, T. scabrum and Fiola canina are to be found. At Hoobrook, below Kidderminster, several streams converge on their way to the Stour. One of these comes from Stanklin Pool, the one locality in the county where Parnassia palustris still flourishes, and in abundance. About the pool grow also Agrimonia odorata, Menyanthes trifoliata, Myriophyllum spicatum, Pedicularis palustris, Potentilla Comarum and Typha angustifolia, and an Orchis once held to be 0. incarnata, but now referred to 0. latifolia. By the side of the stream from this pool was the last known locality for Osmunda regalis in the county. Another stream passes through the wild dingle called Fenny Rough, in which the vegetation is most luxuriant. Here are Aquilegia vulgaris, Cardamine impatiens, Carex Bcen- ninghauseniana, Convallaria majalis, and Polygonatum multiflorum. Above Kidderminster a chain of pools stretches out towards the high land in the north-east ; Nuphar luteum occurs in several of them, but Nymphaa alba is entirely absent. It was in one of these pools that Elatine hexandra and E. hydropiper were once found. Near the northern boundary of the county in the neighbourhood of Blakeshall a sandy, heather-covered common extends for some distance, near which Cotyledon Umbilicus and Erodium maritimum are to be found. Habberley Valley, some two miles north-west from Kidderminster, is an interesting spot ; Cotyledon Umbilicus is found here also, and in the neighbourhood Botrychium Lunaria, Erodium maritimum and Verhascum virgatum are recorded. The banks of the Severn and its neighbouring pools afford Brassica nigra, Carex Pseudo- cyperus, Geranium pratense, Hypericum quadrangulum, CEnanthe Phellandrium, Scirpus sylvaticus 41