218 HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 

 Plate IX. 



1. Cliibiona coerulescens, Tibia of $ palpus. 



2. Agroeca proxima, ^ genital area. 



3. Agroeca bninnea, part of palpus of ^ 



4. Zora tnacitlata^ ^ genital area. 



5. Agroeca proxima, part of ])alpus of ^ 



6. Agroeca bruftjiea, J genital area. 



7. Zora maculata, part of palpus of ^ 



8. Micaria pidicaria, J genital area. 



9. Micaria pidicaria, part of palpus of ^ 



Plate X. 



1. Tibcllns oblong7is, 5 genital area. 



2. Anypliaena accentuata, part of palpus of $ 



3. ,, ,, ,, another view. 



4. Philodromus dispar, 5 genital area. 



5. Sparassus Di/escens, $ genital area. 



6. Philodromus aw-eohis, $ genital area. 



7. Philodromus dispar, part of palpus of $ 



8. Amphaena accentuata, $ genital area. 



9. Philodronnis aiireolus, part of palous of $ 



[N.B. Figures relating to some of the species in the above instalment of 

 the paper will be given on future plates.— Ed.] 



{To he continued.) 



HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



By Prof. G. S. BOULGER, F.L.S., F.G.S., Vice-President. 



Part I. (continued from Vol. XL, p. 236). 



The Botanists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth 



Centuries. 



Since the publication of the previous instalment of this paper 

 I have discovered four oversights. On p. 172, of vol. xi.^ 

 after Gerard's record of Poteniilla palustvis, the following should 

 have appeared : — 



p. 847. Angelica silvestris. " I have scene the same in loMe fennie and 

 marshie places of Essex, about Harwich : this plant hath leaves like unto the 

 garden Angelica, but smaller, and fewer in number, set upon one ribbe, a great 

 stalke, gi-osse and thicke, whose ioints, and that small rib \vhereon the leafe 

 groweth,is of a reddish colour,having many long branches comming forth of ahuske 

 or case, such as is in the common garden parsnep : the flowers grow at the top of 

 the branches, of a white colour and tuft fashion, which being past there succeede 

 broad, long and thicke seeds, longer and thicker than garden Angelica : the 



