wincle; near the back of Church's steam carriage manufactory, in the lane leading to Alum Rock, Upper Saltley.-(C. V., Linn.) ORDER, GENTIACEE.-Chlora perfoliata, Perfoliate Yellowwort; the grounds about Dudley Castle.-(C. VIII., Linn.)

ORDER, BORAGINACEA.-Echium vulgare, Viper's Bugloss; plentiful on the ruins of Dudley Castle. Symphytum officinale, Common Comfrey; near the Aqueduct in the Erdington road, near the gate of Perry Barr Park. ß. S. patens, Purple Comfrey, a bank behind Perry Barr Park. Lycopsis arvensis, Small Lycopsis; a bank at Castle Bromwich; at Saltley, corner of the road to Castle Bromwich. Myosotis versicolor, Variegated Scorpion-grass; a dry bank at Nechell's Green, near Aston. Cynoglossum officinale, Common Houndstongue; a bank at Castle Bromwich.

ORDER, SOLANACEA.-Atropa belladonna, Deadly Dwale; left hand side of the court yard of Dudley Castle, close to the wall, August 3, 1835. July 26, 1836, I found the only two plants I know of, cut off close to the root, but fresh shoots were springing from the old stems. Verbascum thapsus, Great Mullein; Sandwell Park. V. nigrum, Dark Mullein; plentiful in a lane leading from Tower Hill farm, Perry Barr, into the old Walsall road.—(C. V., Linn.)

ORDER, SCROPHULARIACEÆ.-Digitalis purpurea, Purple Foxglove; banks at Castle Bromwich. Linella* cymbalaria, Ivyleaved Toad-flax ; on the ruins of the keep at Dudley Castle. Melampyrum pratense, Yellow Cow-wheat; Sutton Park, near the Waggon road. Bartsia odontites, Red Bartsia, and a variety with white flowers; Green Lanes, near Small Heath turnpike.—(C. XIV., Linn.)-Veronica montana, Mountain Speedwell; a shady bank on the right of the road from Saltley to Stichford, nearly opposite Mr. Marshall's, at Alum Rock. V. scutellata, Narrowleaved Speedwell; on the bog below Coleshill Pool. V. anagallis, Water Speedwell; swampy ground near the bridge at Yardley. V. officinalis, Common Speedwell; a bank in the Harborne road, nearly opposite the lane leading to the Botanic Garden. V. arvensis, Wall Speedwell; Birmingham Heath, near the new church. V. agrestis, Procumbent Speedwell, and V. hederifolia, Ivy-leaved Speedwell, are both common on the new soil of the rail-road embankment at Saltley. I collected three more species, all of very common occurrence.-(C. II., Linn.)

* Linaria was engaged in Ornithology long before the introduction of the term into Botany.-EDS.

ORDER, LAMIACIE-Scutellaria galericulata, Common Skullcap; side of the canal near the Aqueduct, Erdington road. Melissa calamintha (Thymus calamintha, Eng. Flora), Common Calamint; a bank at Saltley, a little beyond the cottages. Nepeta cataria, Hedge Catmint; near the farm yard, Tower Hill, Perry Barr. Lamium galeobdolon (Galeobdolon luteum, Eng. Flora), Yellow Weasel-snout; a bank near Vaughton's Hole; nearly opposite the arch through the embankment of the Birmingham and London railroad, near Saltley. Leonurus cardiaca, Hedge Liontail; in a narrow shady lane, among Nettles, at the back of Perry Barr Park. Galeopsis tetrahit, Common Hemp-nettle; banks at Saltley, Nechell's Green, and in the Halesowen road.-(C. XIV., Linn.)

ORDER, PRIMULACEE.-Lysimachia nemorum, Wood Loosestrife; a bank in Garrison Lane, opposite the row of Poplars; also in a meadow near Moseley Park. L. nummularia, Creeping Loosestrife; a lane near Alum Rock, Upper Saltley.—(C. V., Linn.)

ORDER, PLUMBAGINACEA.-Littorella lacustris, Plantain Shoreweed; Coleshill Pool, plentiful.-(C. XXI., Linn.)

ORDER, POLYGONACEA.-Polygonum amphibium, Amphibious Persecaria; in the stream midway between Avern's Mill and the Pebble Mill, Edgbaston. Polygonum lapathifolium, Pale-flowered Persecaria; the fresh soil of the embankment of the rail-road, near Saltley. (C. VIII., Linn.)

ORDER, URTICACEE.-Urtica urens, Small Nettle; a bank at Saltley, opposite the Coleshill road. Humulus lupulus, Wild Hop; a hedge near Sparkbrook.-(C. XXI. and XXII., Linn.)

CLASS II-MONOCOTYLEDONES.

ORDER, ORCHIDACE.-Orchis morio, Green-winged Orchis, and O. latifolia, Marsh Orchis ; a meadow near Small Heath turnpike. -(C. XX., Linn.)

ORDER, JUNCACEÆ.-Juncus squarrosus, Heath Rush; Coleshill Bog. J. bufonius, Toad Rush; a damp lane between Sturchleystreet and King's Norton. J. lampocarpus, Shining-fruited Rush; the same place. (C. VI., Linn.)

ORDER, ALISMACEE.-Sagittaria sagittifolia, Common Arrowhead; near the mill-dam, Perry Barr Park.-(C. XXII., Linn.)— Butomus umbellatus, Common Flowering Rush; the brook in Edgbaston lane, near Avern's mill.-(C. IX., Linn.)

ORDER, ARACEE.-Lemna polyrhiza, Greater Duckweed; a pit near Saltley Hall.-(C. II., Linn.)-Typha latifolia, Great Reedmace; stream in Soho Park.-(C. XXI., Linn.)

ORDER, CYPERACEA.-Eleocharis palustris, Creeping Spikerush; Coleshill Pool, Pebble Mill Pool, and the stream near Vaughton's Hole. Scirpus sylvaticus, Wood Clubrush; side of the brook nearly opposite Avern's mill, Edgbaston Lane. Eriophorum angustifolium, Narrow-leaved Cotton-grass; Coleshill Bog. -(C. III., Linn.)-Carex stellulata, Prickly Sedge; Coleshill Bog. C. panicea, Pink-leaved Sedge; same habitat.-(C. XXI., Linn.)

ORDER, GRAMINACEA.-Nardus stricta, Common Matgrass ; Sutton Coldfield, a little beyond the new Catholic College.(C. III., Linn.)

DIVISION II.-CELLULARES.

CLASS III-ACOTYLEDONES, OR CRYPTOGAMÆ.

ORDER, FILICACEE.-Aspidium lobatum, Close-leaved Shieldfern; a bank at Saltley. A. spinulosum, Prickly-toothed Shieldfern ; a shady bank in Garrison Lane, opposite the row of Poplars. Asplenium ruta-muraria, Wall Spleenwort; an old wall at Sandwell Park; Aston Park wall, side next the lane leading to Witton.Blechnum boreale, Northern Hardfern; Moseley Common, near the new road; Coleshill Bog.-(C. XXIV., Linn.)

In this list I have probably inserted the names of some plants which may be considered common, while, on the other hand, I have omitted others of more rare occurrence. This must unavoidably happen: plants which are scarce in one locality are very often common in another, and to decide in all cases when a plant may be deemed rare, and when common, is no easy matter. I have purposely admitted a few which are by no means generally rare, though, from local circumstances, they happen not frequently to be met with around Birmingham-such as Nuphar lutea and Anemone nemorosa -merely for the direction of young collectors, whose botanical rambles may be circumscribed to the immediate neighbourhood. Limited as the collection was to the observations of one summer, it can excite no wonder that this selection is not more extensive; many plants were not in bloom when I happened to visit their localities, and I hope, by future additions, to make it much more extensive.

It possesses one merit, however, which a botanist will not consider a trivial one: not one plant is inserted on hearsay;" every specimen was collected from the station where it grew by myself.

Birmingham, Dec. 21, 1836.

W. ICK.

29

ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED IN

WORCESTERSHIRE.

BY JABEZ ALLIES, ESQ.

SINCE my paper on Roman antiquities, &c., discovered in the city and county of Worcester (an abridged account of which appeared in vol. iv., p. 85, of The Analyst), further discoveries have been made at the Kempsey Gravel Pit,* where five or six more cists for burial by cremation have been found, and which were roofed with clay and broken pebbles. One of them was of an oval shape, near three yards long, two yards broad, and about five feet deep in the gravel. The others were smaller and not quite so deep. Some of the latter merely contained black ashes; others contained ashes and fragments of red-earth pottery, made in the Roman mode (the mouth of one of the urns is twenty-eight inches in circumference) and the greatest cist contained black ashes and a large broken pan of coarse materials like those made by the ancient Britisht, and judging from a segment of the pan, it was three feet in circumference. Out of this cist there was a passage into a smaller one. A fragment found in one of the cists has a small handle situated at the shoulder part of it, the bow of which is only large enough to admit the little finger, and the side of the fragment is partly indented for the purpose.

As great alterations are occasionally made at the site of the abovementioned Roman camp, I will endeavour to give an account of it from its present relics; fearing that, in a few more years, almost every vestige of it will have past away.

The west vallum lay on the ridge of ground, or precipice, skirting the flat on the east side of the Severn. The north end of it commenced at the back of the garden belonging to the Parsonage Farm-house, and ran in a line from thence to within about 15 yards

* This gravel-pit, the property of Joseph Smith, Esq., is situated in a ploughed field, called the Moors, on the ridge or precipice of ground, out of floods way, which skirts the flat on the east side of the river Severn, and lies between that river and the village of Kempsey, near the northern side of a vallum, which by many writers is described as a Roman camp, and within the site of the southern end of which camp, Kempsey church stands.

+ In my previous account, I suggested that there formerly might have been a tumulus over the cists at Kempsey; but that only applied to those cists which I considered were ancient British or Romanized British cists, and not to those which were purely Roman.

of the south-west corner of Kempsey church-yard, where it bowed round into such corner. Judging from a measure lately made by footsteps, this vallum was about 200 yards long.

The south vallum appears to have run along the south side of the church-yard, and was about 90 yards long.

The east vallum ran along the east side of the church-yard, and other property, and through the garden of Gore Cottage into the orchard behind, and was about 200 yards long.

The north vallum ran from the above-mentioned orchard to the north-west corner of the garden of the Parsonage Farm-house (from whence we set out), and was 180 yards long, or thereabouts. The rounded corner, and such other part of it as lies in Gore Cottage orchard and garden, is still very perfect, and measures 26 yards across; but as it is a mound of gravel, I fear it will ere long share the fate of the rest of this northern vallum, which within these few years has been levelled by the parochial authorities for road materials.*

The Roman coin which I referred to in my previous paper, as having been found in the gravel-bed at Kempsey, is since ascertained to be one of Nero; and the previously undeciphered one, found at Powick, is a Claudius Gothicus. Some of those found in Britannia-square, Worcester, in the foundation of the supposed circular tower or fort, are of Decentius, Magnentius, and Claudius Gothicus. The others discovered there are principally of the Constantine family as before described.† It is worthy of remark, that the above foundation was of new red sandstone, like that in the quarries at Ombersley or Holt, and such stone was most probably brought by the Romans down the river from one or other of those places : in corroboration of this I lately received a letter from Dr. Prattinton of Bewdley, wherein he says that, some years ago, he found several specimens of Roman pottery of the finest sort in the parish of Ombersley, and had the sanction of his late excellent friend, the discoverer of the extensive villa at North Leigh, in Oxfordshire, as to the probability, if not certainty, of there having been a Roman residence in the neighbourhood.

* Since I wrote the above, the rounded corner which lies in the above garden has been partly, and will soon be completely, demolished.

+ Britannia-square lies upon the ridge of ground, out of floods way, exactly opposite Cinder Point, on the east bank of the Severn, where a Roman foot-blast for smelting iron-ore is supposed to have been situated, as described in my former paper, under the head Yarranton. Although the finding of Roman coins in a particular locality is not sufficient proof of its having been a Roman station, yet when we consider all the corroborative facts in the above case, the evidence appears to amount almost to a demonstration.