220 HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



various college offices before his ordination in 1660. In that year 

 he issued anonymously his Catalogue of Camhvidge Plants, two 

 appendices to which were published in 1663 and 1685 respec- 

 tively. In the former of these appendices occurs the first 

 British record of Btiplenvum tenuissinmm L. Then, having lost 

 his fellowship, and retired into lay communion, in consequence 

 of the Bartholomew Act, after several tours through England, 

 Wales, and the Lowlands of Scotland, and his continental 

 journey with Willughby in 1663, Ray became domesticated 

 with his most celebrated pupil at Middleton. In 1667 he 

 became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1670 he published 

 his Catalogus Plantavum Anglic^, for twenty years the handbook 

 of British botanists. This little work enumerates 27 Essex 

 species, of which 17 were new to Essex. 

 They are the following : — 



Polypogon monspeliensis Desf. (from Lobel), p. 15. 

 Asparagus officinalis L. (from Gerard), p. 31. 

 Bupleiirum tenuissimuni L., p. 37. 

 '''Lathynis nissoUa L., p. 61. 

 " Conferva palustris,'' p. 78. 

 Crocus sativus L. (from Gerard), p. 87. 

 Cynoglossum germanictim Jacq. (from Gerard), p. 90. 

 '''Fyanhenialcevis L., p. loi. 

 "^''Fagopijruni esculentuni Moench, p. iii. 

 '^'Carex pendula Huds., p. 147. 

 '■'Lepturus filiforniis, Trin. var. incurvatus., p. 152. 

 ■•'Calamagvostis epigeios Roth., p. 152. 

 -"^f uncus mavitinms Sm., p. 179. 

 Lathy rus hirsutus L. (from Merrett), p. 190. 

 Lepidium latifoliuni L., p. 191. 

 Statice limoniuni L., p. 194. 

 '''Cardaniine amara L., p. 220. 

 ■•Berheris vulgaris L., p. 229. 

 ^^-'Potamogeton interruptus Kit., var. scoparius, p. 251. 

 TJilaspi arvense'L., p. 295. 

 '•"Lepidium rude rale L., p. 296 

 Tilia vulgaris Hayne (from Turner), p. 297. 

 Tilia piatypjiyllos Scop., p. 297. 

 '^^Trifoliuni squamosum L., p. 306. 

 '''T. suhtevraneum L., p. 306. 



