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BIOGRAPHIES OF WORCESTERSHIRE BOTANISTS
NO.1. WILLIAM GROVES PERRY 1796 - 1863

Summary:
Whilst much of this relates to William G Perry's botanical interests - and they were numerous - several passages in it contain a fascinating glimpse of the man himself, and detail where he was at certain times in his busy life. - ELM

J J Day

Perry was a Warwick man. He published several significant works on the flora of Warwickshire and was, in his day, one of its leading botanical authorities. His Warwickshire work is well documented by Bagnall, 1891, pp.494-502 and Cadbury et al, 1971, pp.52-54. His activities relating to Worcestershire botany are less well known. This note seeks to fill that gap.

Perry was born in Warwick and was a bookseller in the High Street.
The Warwickshire Natural History & Archeological Society was formed in 1838, he was secretary for many years and keeper of their Herbarium from 1841/1842. After his death, his own herbarium was incorporated into that of the Society. His principal collection is now housed in Warwick Museum, (Bagnall 1891; Cadbury 1971).

Bagnall (1891) describes Perry as "a truly enthusiastic botanist", "an able linguist, well skilled in mathematics, and an accomplished musician" and as "an amiable man, and always ready to lend a helping hand".

He took up the study of botany early in life. He left notes and specimens from 1812. His first published list (for Warwickshire) was in 1817 (Perry 1817).

His first Worcestershire contribution was early. It is a good one. There is a specimen in Warwick Museum of Clinopodium ascendens, from Hampton Magna, Evesham, collected in 1812, when he was 16. This remains the sole record for hectad SP04.

Perry's Published Records Relating to Worcestershire
Perry, W.G.,
Loudon's Magazine of Natural History Vol.IV., 1831, p.450. A list of the rarer plants of Worcester, dated Warwick March 12 1830. 128 records.

Leighton, W.A., Flora of Shropshire, 1841; Leighton acknowledges Perry as a correspondent. 26 records from Wyre Forest area attributed to Perry. The precise locations indicate that the majority of records are from Worcestershire.

Bagnall, J.E., Flora of Warwickshire, 1891. Single record (Perry 1839), from Ipsley in vice-county 38.

Newman, E., Phytologist Vol.I, March 1843, pp.508, 512-514, A List of the Ferns and Fern Allies from the counties of Stafford, Warwick, and Worcester, contributed by the Editor Edward Newman, from various sources. Perry contributed Royal Fern, Osmunda regalis from Moseley. This is cited in Lees, E., Botany of Worcestershire, 1867.

Total number of published Worcestershire records : 157

In addition to the published sources, Perry' herbarium is in Warwick Museum. The catalogue of the Warwick collection lists 118 sheets of Perry's relating to vc37 (Copson, P. c1990).

Total traced Worcestershire records : 275 (38 published records are duplicated by herbarium material). These contain records for 133 species. Of these, 50 species are the earliest traced county record.

W.G.Perry's Visits to Worcestershire

Perry was a frequent visitor to Worcestershire. The following is a tabulation, in chronological order, of Perry's visits.

1812 Hampton Magna, Evesham

1813 Worcester / Bevere / Ombersley / Kidderminster

1816-1839 Kidderminster / Wyre Forest area :-

  • 2 August - 18 September 1816
  • 15 June 1821
  • 22 June 1823 - 27 July 1823 also Abberley
  • 26 March 1827
  • 22 June - 7 July 1827
  • 10 June-13 June 1829 also Abberley
  • 28 May 1832
  • 28 May 1833
  • 16 July - 22 July 1834
  • 25 July 1836
  • 23 June 1837
  • June 1839

pre-1839 Ipsley

29 January 1841 Malvern

9 September 1841 Worcester

21 September1841 Malvern & Worcester

pre-1842 Moseley

30 June 1856 Bromsgrove (probably Lickey Hills)

The visit to Worcester, 1813

The 1813 records are of interest. It appears probable that they resulted from a single visit over a couple of days. This can be reconstructed from his herbarium specimens. The youthful, he was 17, and, apparently energetic Perry had the opportunity to visit Worcester in the mid to late-summer of 1817. He, very likely, came in search of a new plant, a national rarity, the Twiggy Mullein, Verbascum virgatum.

In Withering's Botanical Arrangement 1787, the editor Dr.J.Stokes (who named the species), published a record for V.virgatum. He gives precise details of location :- "The side of the Turnpike road from Worecester to Ombersley, opposite to the lane leading to Beverley." It appears that Perry held a copy of this or a later edition.

He collected a specimen from the roadside at Bevere. It seems he had an early start, for he had already collected Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus, from the Cathedral Walls in Worcester. Having secured his rare Mullein, he went north towards Ombersley, collecting from by the roadside Wood Spurge, perhaps at Bourne's Dingle, where it still survives. Reaching Ombersley Common (its demise is documented by Hastings 1832), with its giant chestnut trees he began to explore; he found the Spreading Bellflower, a wood-pasture speciality of Worcestershire (it would be another four years before he secured a Warwickshire specimen, Bagnall 1891). Then, in the way of a good field botanist, he hunted out the wet spots. He discovered and left record of a mesotrophic assemblage, currently, extinct to the county. Perry's records are our sole source of knowledge of this site and its native fen communities.

Having secured his rarities he appears to have proceeded hot-foot, as far as Kidderminster, where he collected Erica tetralix and Eriophorum angustifolium from a lost bog, near to Round Hill Bridge.

His vasculum was full of new and exciting captures, it had been a red-letter day, he determined to return.

1813

Worcester Cathedral

Antirrhinum majus

Snapdragon

A449 near Bevere

Verbascum virgatum

Twiggy Mullein

A449 Ombersley

Euphorbia amygdaloides ssp. amygdaloides

Wood Spurge

Ombersley

 Campanula patula

preading Bellflower

Oldfield Fen

Baldellia ranunculoides

Lesser Water-plantain

 

Pedicularis sylvatica

Lousewort

 

Potentilla palustris

 Marsh Cinquefoil

Falling Sands Common Kidderminster

Erica cinerea

Bell Heather

 

Erica tetralix

Cross-leaved Heath

 

Eriophorum angustifolium

Common Cottongrass

Kidderminster / Wyre Forest area 1816 - 1839

The 1813 excursion seems to have sparked Perry's botanical enthusiasm. The sandstone country around Kidderminster was novel terrain for a Warwickshire botanist but close enough to visit regularily. Over the period between 1816 - 1839, Perry visited the area on at least twelve occasions. Several visits extended over one or two week periods. The dated labels on his herbarium specimens, from the years 1816 and 1827, arranged in chronological order, not only provide a diary of his excursions in the Kidderminster area but also indicate the range and pattern of his activities :-

02 AUG 1816

 Scleranthus annuus

 Kidderminster

03 AUG 1816

 Drosera rotundifolia

 Falling Sands Bog

03 AUG 1816

 Epilobium palustre

 Falling Sands Bog

03 AUG 1816

 Epilobium roseum

 Kidderminster

05 AUG 1816

Triglochin palustre

 Bog by Fenny Rough

06 AUG 1816

 Cirsium palustre

 Kidderminster

06 AUG 1816

Epilobium parviflorum

 Bog by Fenny Rough

06 AUG 1816

Epilobium tetragonum

 Bog by Fenny Rough

07 AUG 1816

 Athyrium filix-femina

 Kidderminster

07 AUG 1816

 Athyrium filix-femina

 Bewdley

07 AUG 1816

 Cystopteris fragilis

 Kidderminster

07 AUG 1816

 Cystopteris fragilis

 Bewdley

07 AUG 1816

 Rumex maritimus

 Stack Pool

07 AUG 1816

 Spergularia rubra

 Kidderminster

08 AUG 1816

Anagallis tenella

 Bog by Fenny Rough

09 AUG 1816

Dianthus deltoides

 Blackstone Rock

09 AUG 1816

 Hypericum montanum

 Blackstone Rock

12 AUG 1816

Blechnum spicant

 Foxholes Kidderminster

12 AUG 1816

Potentilla argentea

 Foxholes Kidderminster

12 AUG 1816

 Verbascum blattaria

 Foxholes Kidderminster

18 SEP 1816

Dipsacus pilosus

 Blackstone Rock

26 MAR 1827

Juncus squarrosus

 Devils Spittleful

22 JUN 1827

Deschampsia flexuosa

 Sutton Common

22 JUN 1827

Lithospermum arvense

 Sutton Common

22 JUN 1827

Nardus stricta

 Sutton Common

22 JUN 1827

Senecio sylvaticus

 Stour Hill

22 JUN 1827

Viola arvensis

 Kidderminster

23 JUN 1827

 Athyrium filix-femina

 Bewdley

23 JUN 1827

 Dryopteris dilatata

 Bewdley

23 JUN 1827

 Equisetum palustre

 Kidderminster

23 JUN 1827

 Luzula sylvatica

 Blackstone Rock

23 JUN 1827

Melica uniflora

 Blackstone Rock

25 JUN 1827

 Ceratocapnos claviculata

 Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

 Cornus sanguinea

 Foxholes Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

 Deschampsia flexuosa

 Foxholes Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

Marrubium vulgare

 Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

 Polygala vulgaris

 Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

Hieracium sp.

 Habberley Valley

25 JUN 1827

Hypericum androsaemum

 Habberley Valley

25 JUN 1827

Trifolium striatum

 Pekket Rock

25 JUN 1827

 Vaccinium myrtillus

 Pekket Rock

25 JUN 1827

Pedicularis sylvatica

 Trimpley

25 JUN 1827

Sorbus domestica

 New Parks Wyre Forest

26 JUN 1827

Eriophorum latifolium

 Park Brook Bogs

26 JUN 1827

 Sorbus aucuparia

Wyre Forest

26 JUN 1827

Trifolium striatum

 Bewdley to Tenbury Wells Road

29 JUN 1827

 Athyrium filix-femina

 Fenny Rough

29 JUN 1827

 Carex remota

 Fenny Rough

04 JUL 1827

 Eleocharis palustris

 Stack Pool

06 JUL 1827

 Rumex maritimus

 Stack Pool

07 JUL 1827

 Hypericum montanum

 Abberley Common

07 JUL 1827

 Ranunculus hederaceus

 Abberley Hill Flush

07 JUL 1827

 Stachys arvensis

 between Dunley and Abberley Hill

 

02 AUG 1816

 Scleranthus annuus

 Kidderminster

03 AUG 1816

 Drosera rotundifolia

 Falling Sands Bog

03 AUG 1816

 Epilobium palustre

 Falling Sands Bog

03 AUG 1816

 Epilobium roseum

 Kidderminster

05 AUG 1816

Triglochin palustre

 Bog by Fenny Rough

06 AUG 1816

 Cirsium palustre

 Kidderminster

06 AUG 1816

Epilobium parviflorum

 Bog by Fenny Rough

06 AUG 1816

Epilobium tetragonum

 Bog by Fenny Rough

07 AUG 1816

 Athyrium filix-femina

 Kidderminster

07 AUG 1816

 Athyrium filix-femina

 Bewdley

07 AUG 1816

 Cystopteris fragilis

 Kidderminster

07 AUG 1816

 Cystopteris fragilis

 Bewdley

07 AUG 1816

 Rumex maritimus

 Stack Pool

07 AUG 1816

 Spergularia rubra

 Kidderminster

08 AUG 1816

Anagallis tenella Bog by Fenny Rough

 

09 AUG 1816

Dianthus deltoides

 Blackstone Rock

09 AUG 1816

 Hypericum montanum

 Blackstone Rock

12 AUG 1816

Blechnum spicant

 Foxholes Kidderminster

12 AUG 1816

Potentilla argentea

 Foxholes Kidderminster

12 AUG 1816

 Verbascum blattaria

 Foxholes Kidderminster

18 SEP 1816

Dipsacus pilosus

 Blackstone Rock

26 MAR 1827

Juncus squarrosus

 Devils Spittleful

22 JUN 1827

Deschampsia flexuosa

 Sutton Common

22 JUN 1827

Lithospermum arvense

 Sutton Common

22 JUN 1827

Nardus stricta

 Sutton Common

22 JUN 1827

Senecio sylvaticus

 Stour Hill

22 JUN 1827

Viola arvensis

 Kidderminster

23 JUN 1827

 Athyrium filix-femina

 Bewdley

23 JUN 1827

 Dryopteris dilatata

 Bewdley

23 JUN 1827

 Equisetum palustre

 Kidderminster

23 JUN 1827

 Luzula sylvatica

 Blackstone Rock

23 JUN 1827

Melica uniflora

 Blackstone Rock

25 JUN 1827

 Ceratocapnos claviculata

 Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

 Cornus sanguinea

 Foxholes Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

 Deschampsia flexuosa

 Foxholes Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

Marrubium vulgare

 Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

 Polygala vulgaris

 Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

Hieracium sp.

 Habberley Valley

25 JUN 1827

Hypericum androsaemum

 Habberley Valley

25 JUN 1827

Trifolium striatum

 Pekket Rock

25 JUN 1827

 Vaccinium myrtillus

 Pekket Rock

25 JUN 1827

Pedicularis sylvatica

 Trimpley

25 JUN 1827

Sorbus domestica

 New Parks

 Wyre Forest

26 JUN 1827

Eriophorum latifolium Park Brook Bogs

 

 

26 JUN 1827

 Sorbus aucuparia

Wyre Forest

 

26 JUN 1827

Trifolium striatum

 Bewdley to Tenbury Wells Road

 

29 JUN 1827

 Athyrium filix-femina

 Fenny Rough

 

29 JUN 1827

 Carex remota

 Fenny Rough

 

04 JUL 1827

 Eleocharis palustris

 Stack Pool

 

06 JUL 1827

 Rumex maritimus

 Stack Pool

 

07 JUL 1827

 Hypericum montanum

 Abberley Common

 

07 JUL 1827

 Ranunculus hederaceus

 Abberley Hill Flush

 

07 JUL 1827

 Stachys arvensis

 between Dunley and Abberley Hill

 

The maps of Perry's Worcestershire records indicate that he covered the ground around Kidderminster and Bewdley, in some detail.

W.G.Perry Worcestershire Records are mapped below

Map shows Perry records allocated to tetrads (2x2 km squares) of the national grid.

Map shows Perry records allocated to monads (1x1 km squares) of the national grid

It is mainly, due to Perry's work that the early nineteenth century botanical landscape of the sandstone country around Kidderminster is known (a full list of his records appears in the Appendix). Scott (1832) worked the Stourbridge area but no-one had seriously explored the Bromsgrove Sandstone country, further to the south. Perry was the principal early worker on the sandstones, east of the Severn. This was at a time of significant change in the agricultural landscape. Much of the botanically productive ground was lost before the later part of the nineteenth century.

The highlight is his wetland records. As with many experienced field naturalists, Perry's attention seems to have been drawn to wet places, a third of his surviving records are wetland plants.

His records document wetlands at Oldfield, Fenny Rough, Falling Sands Common, Abberley Hill, Park Brook, Devils Spittleful, Rock Coppice, the Great Bog in Wyre. The lists are brief but can be presumed relative complete, for the uncommon species. They include good indicator species for specific fen and bog conditions.

The native flush communities of the Worcestershire sandstone country are virtually lost. Perry's are the best and often only record of the natural flush assemblages in the district. Several of the communities indicated are extinct as Worcestershire habitats.

In March 1830, he wrote up some of his records for Loudon's Magazine, although, curiously, he fails to make reference to his visits of 1821 and 1823. Later, c1840, he supplied a list of plants from Wyre Forest to W.A.Leighton for the latter's Flora of Shropshire (1841). His herbarium specimens provide a record of his continuing activity in the Kidderminster area which apparently ceases after 1840. Subsequently, only occasional visits to Malvern and Worcester are recorded. His last known trip to the county was to Bromsgrove, probably Lickey, on 30th.June 1856.

Footnote

Perhaps the most curious fact concerning Perry is that he and his records are almost entirely ignored by Edwin Lees. The only reference by Lees (1867) traced to date concerning Perry is a repeat of the 1843 record of Osmunda regalis on Moseley Bog (Newman 1843). Lees (1867) also notes four other recorders.

The two men's career's seem to run parallel and in adjoining counties. Perry was born in 1796 and Lees in 1800. Both were involved in the book trade. Perry had a bookshop on the High Street, Warwick. Lees' early career had been in publishing and bookselling, when he occupied an establishment on the High Street, Worcester. Both were interested in natural history from a young age, and devoted much of their adult life to its contemplation and study. Both were intimately connected with their Natural History Clubs, whose areas of study bordered each other. Both published early lists for their respective counties. Both published lists of Worcestershire plants in the same volume of a national journal (Lees 1830, Perry 1831, Lees 1831). Both were known to Leighton in Shropshire and provided records for his flora of that county, 1841. It seems probable that they were acquainted; they had shared interests and moved in the same local circles.

So why did Lees maintain a silence? Record keeping was not Lees' strongpoint. He was disorganised, as any serious study of his Botany of Worcestershire (Lees 1867) will indicate. But Perry's list (Perry 1831) is of considerable interest to a Worcestershire botanist, with many new county records. It was only 13 pages away from a published article of Lees (Lees 1831). Lees was a regular contributor to and therefore, presumably, a reader of this journal. It would seem he deliberately ignored Perry's published records. Is this a case of botanical rivalry, concerning first county records? Did Lees resent a Warwickshire man beating him into print? This seems unlikely as Lees freely acknowledges the contributions of others in his work. Does the explanation lay elsewhere, perhaps through shared business interests? Whatever the explanation, Lees seems to have held silent, throughout. His friend, William Mathews, co-founder with Lees of the Worcestershire Naturalists Field Club in 1847 (ed.Rea 1897), appeared nonplussed when writing on the matter, in 1888, "Perry's list appears to have escaped Mr.Lees's attention."

References

AMPHLETT, J. AND REA, C., Flora of Worcestershire, 1909.

BAGNALL, J.E., Flora of Warwickshire, 1891 (biography pp.494-502).

CADBURY, D.A. ET AL; A Computer-mapped Flora of Warwickshire, 1971 (biography pp.52-54).

COPSON, P., Worcestershire Vice County 37 Catalogue of Specimens in Warwickshire Museum herbarium. Typescript manuscript undated, c1990.

HASTINGS, DR.C., Illustrations of the Natural History of Worcestershire, London 1834.

LEES, E., Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, Vol.III., 1830, p160.

LEES, E., Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, Vol.IV., 1831 p.437.

LEES, E. Botany of Worcestershire, 1867.

LEIGHTON, W.A., Flora of Shropshire, 1841.

MATHEWS, W., History of the County Botany of Worcester, Midland Naturalist Vol.XI, 1888, p.123.

NEWMAN,E. Phytologist Vol.I, March 1843, pp.508, 512-514.

PERRY,W.G., A Select List of Plants found in Warwickshire. Appeared in Dugdale's Warwickshire, 1817.

PERRY,W.G., Manuscript notes interleaved in Perry's personal copy of Plantae Varvicenses Selectae, compiled c.1823-1839.

PERRY,W.G., Loudon's Magazine of Natural History Vol.IV., 1831, p.450.

REA, C editor, Transactions of the Worcestershire Naturalists' Club Vol.I 1897.

SCOTT W., History of Stourbridge and its Vicinity, 1832.

WITHERING,W., ED.STOKES, DR.J., Botanical Arrangement of British Plants, Second Edition, 1787.

Appendix : W.G.Perry's Worcestershire Records

Records in bold are the current known First County Records, by date. Many of these pre-date the records in Amphlett and Rea, 1909, and are published here for the first time.

Scientific name

 Site name

 Date

Arabis glabra

 A448 SO87

 1829

Verbascum virgatum

 A449 SO85

 1813

Euphorbia amygdaloides

 A449 SO86

 1813

Arabis glabra

 A449 SO87

 1829

Sambucus nigra

 A449 SO87

 28 MAY 1832

Sambucus nigra var laciniata

 A449 SO87

 1829

Dryopteris carthusiana

 A456 SO87

 1829

Potentilla argentea

 A456 SO87

 1829

Apium nodiflorum

 Abberley Bog

 07 JUL 1822

Apium repens

 Abberley Bog

 07 JUL 1823

Montia fontana

 Abberley Bog

 1829

Ranunculus hederaceus

 Abberley Bog

 07 JUL 1827

Onobrychis viciifolia

 Abberley Common

 1829

Pseudofumaria lutea

 Abberley Parish

 1829

Hypericum montanum

 Apostles Wood

 07 JUL 1827

Malva moschata

 Apostles Wood

 1829

Mycelis muralis

 B4091 Worcester Road Bromsgrove

 1829

Campanula trachelium

 B4203 Great Witley - Bromyard Road

1829

Asplenium adiantum-nigrum

 Bewdley

 AUG 1816

Athyrium filix-femina

 Bewdley

 07 AUG 1816

Athyrium filix-femina

 Bewdley

 23 JUN 1827

Athyrium filix-femina

 Bewdley

 17 JUL 1834

Chamerion angustifolium

 Bewdley

 22 JUL 1834

Cystopteris fragilis

 Bewdley

 07 AUG 1816

Dryopteris dilatata

 Bewdley

 23 JUN 1827

Galium mollugo

 Bewdley

 10 JUL 1829

Malva moschata

 Bewdley

 1829

Myosotis secunda

 Bewdley

 11 JUL 1829

Solidago virgaurea

 Bewdley

 11 JUL 1829

Sedum dasyphyllum

 Bewdley to Tenbury Wells Road

 1829

Trifolium striatum

Bewdley to Tenbury Wells Road

26 JUN 1827

Asplenium trichomanes

 Blackstone Rock

 1829

Blechnum spicant

 Blackstone Rock

 1829

Campanula trachelium

 Blackstone Rock

 1829

Dianthus deltoide

 Blackstone Rock

 09 AUG 1816

Dipsacus pilosus

 Blackstone Rock

 18 SEP 1816

Dryopteris dilatata

 Blackstone Rock

 1829

Geranium lucidum

 Blackstone Rock

 1829

Hypericum montanum

 Blackstone Rock

 09 AUG 1816

Luzula sylvatica

 Blackstone Rock

 23 JUN 1827

Melampyrum pratense

 Blackstone Rock

 1829

Melica uniflora

 Blackstone

 23 JUN 1827

Mycelis muralis

 Blackstone Rock

 1829

Ornithopus perpusillus

 Blackstone Rock

 1829

Anagallis tenella

 Bog by Fenny Rough

 08 AUG 1816

Epilobium parviflorum

 Bog by Fenny Rough

 06 AUG 1816

Epilobium tetragonum

 Bog by Fenny Rough

 06 AUG 1816

Eriophorum angustifolium

 Bog by Fenny Rough

 1829

Menyanthes trifoliata

 Bog by Fenny Rough

 1829

Triglochin palustre

 Bog by Fenny Rough

 05 AUG 1816

Aira caryophyllea

 Bromsgrove (?Lickey)

 30 JUN 1856

Ceratocapnos claviculata

 Bromsgrove (?Lickey)

 30 JUN 1856

Festuca ovina sens.str.

Bromsgrove (?Lickey)

 30 JUN 1856

Blechnum spicant

 Burnt Wood

 1829

Eriophorum angustifolium

 Burnt Wood

 1829

Hieracium sp.

 Burnt Wood

 1829

Melampyrum pratense

 Burnt Wood

 1829

Myosotis laxa

 Burnt Wood

 1829

Pedicularis palustris

 Burnt Wood

 1829

Solidago virgaurea

 Burnt Wood

 1829

Campanula patula

 Chaddesley Corbett Parish

 1829

Inula conyzae

 Chaddesley Corbett Parish

 1829

Asplenium adiantum-nigrum

 Cookley

 JUL 1834

Campanula patula

 Cookley

 16 JUL 1834

Campanula rotundifolia

 Cookley

 16 JUL 1834

Galium mollugo ssp. erectum

 Cookley

 16 JUL 1834

Drosera rotundifolia

 Devils Spittleful

 1829

Juncus squarrosus

 Devils Spittleful

 26 MAR 1827

Campanula patula

 Dolphin Lane?

 1829

Aquilegia vulgaris

 Dowles Brook

 1829

Sparganium emersum

 Dowles Brook

 17 JUL 1834

Drosera rotundifolia

 Falling Sands Bog

 03 AUG 1816

Drosera rotundifolia

 Falling Sands Bog

 1829

Epilobium palustre

 Falling Sands Bog

 03 AUG 1816

Erica tetralix

 Falling Sands Bog

 1813

Eriophorum angustifolium

 Falling Sands Bog

 1813

Eriophorum angustifolium

 Falling Sands Bog

 23 JUN 1837

Pedicularis sylvatica

 Falling Sands Bog

 1829

Vicia sativa ssp. nigra

 Falling Sands Bog

 1829

Teesdalia nudicaulis

 Falling Sands Common

 1829

Athyrium filix-femina

 Fenny Rough

 29 JUN 1827

Blechnum spicant

 Fenny Rough

 1829

Carex remota

 Fenny Rough

 29 JUN 1827

Hieracium sp.

 Fenny Rough

 1829

Blechnum spicant

 Foxholes Kidderminster

 12 AUG 1816

Cornus sanguinea

 Foxholes Kidderminster

 25 JUN 1827

Deschampsia flexuosa

 Foxholes Kidderminster

25 JUN 1827

Hieracium sp.

 Foxholes Kidderminster

 1829

Potentilla argentea

 Foxholes Kidderminster

 12 AUG 1816

Potentilla argentea

 Foxholes Kidderminster

 1829

Umbilicus rupestris

 Foxholes Kidderminster

 1829

Verbascum blattaria

 Foxholes Kidderminster

 12 AUG 1816

Eriophorum latifolium

 Great Bog New Parks

 1841

Anthriscus caucalis

 Greenhill Kidderminster

 28 MAY 1833

Blackstonia perfoliata

 Habberley Valley

 21 JUL 1834

Erodium maritimum

 Habberley Valley

 1829

Hieracium sp.

 Habberley Valley

 25 JUN 1827

Hypericum androsaemum

 Habberley Valley

 25 JUN 1827

Lysimachia nemorum

 Habberley Valley

 1829

Mycelis muralis

 Habberley Valley

 1829

Clinopodium ascendens

 Hampton Evesham

 1812

Kickxia spuria

 Hampton Evesham

 1812

Eriophorum angustifolium

 Hartlebury Common

 JUN 1839

Inula conyzae

 Hartlebury Parish

 1829

Linum usitatissimum

 Hartlebury Parish

 1829

Thlaspi arvense

 Hartlebury Parish

 1829

Verbena officinalis

 Hartlebury Parish

 1829

Scutellaria minor

 Hitterhill Coppice Wyre Forest

 1841

Vaccinium myrtillus

 Ipsley Coppice

 1839

Arabis glabra

 Kidderminster

 1829

Asplenium adiantum-nigrum

 Kidderminster

 AUG 1816

Asplenium adiantum-nigrum

 Kidderminster

 JUN 1827

Athyrium filix-femina

 Kidderminster

 07 AUG 1816

Blechnum spicant

 Kidderminster

 1829

Carduus crispus

 Kidderminster

 1829

Ceratocapnos claviculata

 Kidderminster

 25 JUN 1827

Cirsium palustre

 Kidderminster

 06 AUG 1816

Cystopteris fragilis

 Kidderminster

 07 AUG 1816

Epilobium roseum

 Kidderminster

 03 AUG 1816

Epilobium roseum

 Kidderminster

 1829

Equisetum palustre

 Kidderminster

 23 JUN 1827

Erica cinerea

 Kidderminster

 1813

Galium saxatile

 Kidderminster

 1829

Geranium columbinum

 Kidderminster

 1829

Marrubium vulgare

 Kidderminster

 25 JUN 1827

Ornithopus perpusillus

 Kidderminster

 1829

Polygala vulgaris

 Kidderminster

 25 JUN 1827

Scleranthus annuus

 Kidderminster

 02 AUG 1816

Spergularia rubra

 Kidderminster

 07 AUG 1816

Thlaspi arvense

 Kidderminster

 1829

Vicia sativa ssp. nigra

 Kidderminster

 1829

Viola arvensis

 Kidderminster

 22 JUN 1827

Athyrium filix-femina

 Malvern Hills

 21 SEP 1841

Ceratocapnos claviculata

 Malvern Hills

 21 SEP 1841

Dryopteris dilatata

 Malvern Hills

 21 SEP 1841

Osmunda regalis

 Moseley Common

 1842

Rosa pimpinellifolia x sherardii

 New Parks Wyre Forest

1829

Sorbus domestica

 New Parks Wyre Forest

 25 JUN 1827

Centaurium erythraea

 North Wood Wribbenhall

 22 JUL 1834

Erica cinerea

 North Wood Wribbenhall

 22 JUL 1834

Lysimachia vulgaris

 North Wood Wribbenhall

 22 JUL 1834

Baldellia ranunculoides

 Oldfield Fen

 1813

Pedicularis palustris

 Oldfield Fen

 1829

Pedicularis sylvatica

 Oldfield Fen

 1813

Potentilla palustris

 Oldfield Fen

 1813

Campanula patula

 Ombersley Parish

 1813

Pedicularis sylvatica

 Ombersley Parish

 1813

Eleocharis palustris

 Park Brook Bogs

 17 JUL 1834

Eriophorum latifolium

 Park Brook Bogs

 26 JUN 1827

Gymnadenia conopsea

 Park Brook Bogs

 1829

Gymnadenia conopsea

 Park Brook Bogs

 17 JUL 1834

Isolepis setacea

 Park Brook Bogs

 17 JUL 1834

Alchemilla vulgaris agg.

 Park Brook Wyre Forest

 1841

Aquilegia vulgaris

 Park Brook Wyre Forest

 1841

Carex pulicaris

 Park Brook Wyre Forest

 1841

Eriophorum latifolium

 Park Brook Wyre Forest

 1841

Geranium sylvaticum

 Park Brook Wyre Forest

 1841

Gymnadenia conopsea

 Park Brook Wyre Forest

 1841

Isolepis setacea

 Park Brook Wyre Forest

 1841

Valeriana dioica

 Park BrookWyre Forest

  1841

Ceratocapnos claviculata

 Pekket Rock

 1829

Cirsium palustre

 Pekket Rock

 1829

Cirsium palustre

 Pekket Rock

 13 JUL 1829

Hypericum montanum

 Pekket Rock

 1829

Polygala vulgaris

 Pekket Rock

 1829

Trifolium striatum

 Pekket Rock

 25 JUN 1827

Trifolium striatum

 Pekket Rock

 1829

Umbilicus rupestris

 Pekket Rock

 1829

Vaccinium myrtillus

 Pekket Rock

 25 JUN 1827

Lobularia maritima

 Red Hill Worcester

09 SEP 1841

Campanula trachelium

 River Severn

 1829

Blechnum spicant

 Rock Coppice

 1829

Hieracium sp.

 Rock Coppice

 1829

Melampyrum pratense

 Rock Coppice

 1829

Mycelis muralis

 Rock Coppice

 1829

Scutellaria minor

 Rock Coppice

 11 JUL 1829

Stachys arvensis

 SO76 tetrad U

 07 JUL 1827

Verbena officinalis

 SO76 tetrad U

 1829

Carex pseudocyperus

 Stack Pool

 1829

Eleocharis palustris

 Stack Pool

 04 JUL 1827

Rorippa palustris

 Stack Pool

 1829

Rumex maritimus

 Stack Pool

 07 AUG 1816

Rumex maritimus

 Stack Pool

 06 JUL 1827

Scirpus sylvaticus

 Stack Pool

 22 JUN 1823

Symphytum officinale

 Staffordshire & Worcs. Canal

1829

Asplenium ruta-muraria

 Stone Church

 1829

Verbena officinalis

 Stone Church

 1829

Verbena officinalis

 Stone Parish

 15 JUL 1836

Hieracium sp.

 Stour Hill

 1829

Mycelis muralis

 Stour Hill

 1829

Onopordum acanthium

 Stour Hill

 1829

Senecio sylvaticus

 Stour Hill

 22 JUN 1827

Deschampsia flexuosa

 Sutton Common

 22 JUN 1827

Lithospermum arvense

 Sutton Common

 22 JUN 1827

Nardus stricta

 Sutton Common

 22 JUN 1827

Ornithopus perpusillus

 Sutton Common

 1829

Galium odoratum

 Trimpley

 21 JUL 1834

Pedicularis sylvatica

 Trimpley

 25 JUN 1827

Oreopteris limbosperma

 Trimpley Green

 21 JUL 1834

Polystichum setiferum

 Trimpley Green

 21 JUL 1834

Veronica montana

 Trimpley Green

 21 JUL 1834

Hieracium sp.

 Wassall Wood

 1829

Vicia sylvatica

 Wassall Wood

 13 JUL 1829

Carduus crispus

 Wolverley Parish

 16 JUL 1834

Potentilla argentea

 Wolverley Parish

 1829

Verbascum lychnitis

 Wolverley Parish

 1829

Asplenium ruta-muraria

 Worcester

 21 SEP 1841

Antirrhinum majus

 Worcester Cathedral

 1813

Cirsium palustre

 Worcestershire Beacon

 21 SEP 1841

Veronica officinalis

Worcestershire Beacon

 29 JAN 1841

Blechnum spicant

 Wordley Dingle

 1829

Saponaria officinalis

 Wribbenhall

 22 JUL 1834

Aquilegia vulgaris

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Campanula trachelium

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Centaurium erythraea

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Drosera rotundifolia

 Wyre Forest

 17 JUL 1834

Geranium sylvaticum

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Hypericum androsaemum

 Wyre Forest

 17 JUL 1834

Juniperus communis

 Wyre Forest

 1829

Juniperus communis

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Malva moschata

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Melampyrum pratense

 Wyre Forest

 26 JUN 1823

Pedicularis palustris

 Wyre Forest

 1829

Pedicularis palustris

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Platanthera bifolia

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Polygala vulgaris

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Potamogeton crispus

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Prunus domestica

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Rosa tomentosa agg.

 Wyre Forest

 25 JUN 1821

Scirpus sylvaticus

 Wyre Forest

 1829

Scirpus sylvaticus

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Sorbus aucuparia

 Wyre Forest

 26 JUN 1827

Sparganium emersum

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Vaccinium myrtillus

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Valeriana officinalis

 Wyre Forest

 1841

Veronica officinalis

 Wyre Forest

 1841

237 Rows (38 literature records duplicate herbarium material; in these the date is taken from the specimen).

NB:  This page was copied several years ago as I started to gain information on Willam G Perry. The original records then disappeared from the web for some time and I was glad to have copied what I did.  They then reappeared!! - so in fact this is now a duplication of what is on the web pages of the Worcestershire Botanical Records Centre at:  http://www.wbrc.org.uk/WorcRecd/Issue14/biograph.htm