HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 219 



roote is great, thicke, and white, of litttle savour, with some strings appendant 

 thereto." [Angelica sylvestris L.'\ 



Between the publication of Gerard's Herhall and the 



*emaculate' edition of Tliomas Johnson (1633), the second 



edition of Pena and Lobel's Adversaria was pubhshed by Lobel 



in 1605. It contains the first British record for Polypogon 



ntonspdiensis Desf. (p. 469), as follows: — ■ 



" Alopecuftis alt em maxima Angiica paludosa. . . . \'dis fossis 



lacuslribusq. Essexiensis comitatus legi, juxta Thamesis amoenissima fluenta, 



cum tenderemus ad cedes Clarissimi & pijsissimi generosi viri 



D. J. Coys hujus amoenissimi studii amantissimi Sc ut si quis alius Anglo- 



britanorum peritissimi, herbidos campos perlustratur." 



On p. 175 of vol. xi., after Johnson's record of Anagallis ccerulea, 

 should have appeared the following : — 



p. 630. '■^ Xu/n miliaria flore ptirpurascente. Purple floured ISIoney-woort 

 . . " on the bogges upon the heath," neare Burnt wood in Essex." \^Anagallis 

 tenella -L.] 



After his record of Trifolinin fragiferuiii on the same page, the 

 two following records should appear : — 



p. 1482. " Ubmis folio glahro. Witch Elme, or smooth leauen Elme. 

 . . . My worthy friend and excellent Herbarist of happy memorie, Mr, 

 "William Coys, of Stubbers, in the parish of Northokington, in Essex, told me 

 that the wood of this kinde was more desired for naves of Carts than the wood of 

 the first. I observed it growing very plentifully as I rode between Rumford and 

 the said Stubbers, in the yeere 1620, intermixed with the first kinde, but easily to 

 be discerned apart, and is in those parts usually called Witch- Elme." [Ulimis 

 surculosa var. glabra jNIill.] 



p. 1490. Lantana, sive Viburnum. The Wayf;:ring tree. . . . "I 

 enquired of a countreyman in Essex, if he knew any name of this : he answered, 

 it w?s called the Cotton tree, by reason of the softnesse of the leaves." [ Vibtirnum 

 lafitana L.] 



There is a great contrast betw^een Merrett's work and that of 

 the greatest of Essex naturalists which follows it. The Club 

 has in the fourth volume of its Transactions and Proceedings 

 a fuller account of the life of Ray than is accessible elsewhere,^ 

 so that the barest summary will suffice here. Ray was born at 

 Black Notley, probably on 29th November, 1627. From Braintree 

 Grammar School he entered Catherine Hall, Cambridge, in 

 1644; migrated to Trinity College in 1646; graduated and held 



I "The Life and Work of John Ray, and their relation to the Progress of Science." 

 By G S. Boulger. Tmiis. Essex Field Club, vol. iv., pp. 171— 188. "The Domestic Life- 

 of John Ray at Black Notley." By G. S. Boulger. Jonrn. of Proc. Essex Field Club, 

 vol. iv., pp. clix.— clxiv. 



