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'■''Typha latifolia L., p. 308. 



'•'7". angustifolia L., p. 308. 

 Those new to Essex are marked with an ''', those new to 

 Britain with f. As I have quoted the pages, and there are 

 seldom two Essex species on one page, no one need have any 

 difficulty in testing my identifications. Some of these records 

 demand fuller notice. 



"Auricula leporis minima J.B. An Bupleurum minimum Park} An Bupl. 

 an,£;u.stissimo folio C.B, The least Hares-ear. Deceptum puto Gerardum, cum 

 Bupleurum angustifolium Dod. apud nos sponte provenire asserat. Illud sc. 

 mihi nunquam occurrit, at|haec a J. Banhino tom. 3. part. 2. pag. 201. descripta 

 ssepius. As near Ellesley in the road from Cambridge to St. Neotes, on a bank 

 by the Northern roadside a little beyond Huntington. At Maldon in Essex, in a 

 yard where they build veseels at Fullb ridge; at Hastings in Sussex, near the 

 little brook that runs beside the castle, below the bridge, and elsewhere. . . . 

 Accuratam ejus tum figuram tum descriptionem vide apud J.B. loco citato." 



When, in 1831, Thomas Corder recognised Bupleurum 

 falcatum and described it in the supplement to English Botany, he 

 stated, on the authority of Edward Forster, that Gerard and 

 others had previously noticed it in England, quoting the figure 

 in Johnson's Gerard, p. 608. Though neither Gerard's nor 

 Johnson's figures are satisfactory means of identifying the plants 

 described by them, and, as Mr. Gibson says {Flora of Essex, ^.. 

 135), this figure "seems more like some other species," the 

 description is even less satisfactory. According to the synonymy 

 quoted, this species and B. rigidum (unknown in Britain) 

 occurred together at Beeston Castle, Cheshire, a possible locality 

 for B. teniiissinium (though not mentioned in the late Lord De 

 Tabley's Flora), but most improbable for the others. B. tenuis- 

 simnni is mainly a salt-marsh species, though not exclusively so, 

 and is still not uncommon on the east coast of our county. It 

 may at any time have been introduced, as Watson suggests,^ 

 with sea-side gravel brought inland for footpaths, though several 

 of the recorded inland localities are naturally gravelly spots, as, 

 for instance, Ealing Common [Flora of Middlesex, p. 126). In 

 Dale's herbarium is a specimen labelled by him " Bupleurum 

 angustissimo folio C.B. 278. Tourn. Inst. 310. Bupleurum 

 minimum Col. Ecp, i. 247. Park. Auricula leporis minima J.B.. 

 3. 201. Raii Hist. i. 474. Synop. 115. Cat. Angl. Apud Maldon 

 collegi." There are also in the British Museum Herbarium (1} 



2 Topographical Botany, ed. i., p. 630. 



