HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 223 



native parish. The plant, Lathyvus nissolia, is not infrequent 



throughout the county. 



" Erica supina maritima Anglica Park. Lob. English low Sea-Heath. I have 

 found this in several places, as in Loving-land, just over the water at Yarmouth 

 and in the marshes about Thunington in Essex." \Frankenia Icevis Z.] 



"Fegopyrum Dod . .-Buckwheat, in some places called Brank, in others 

 Crop. . . circa Colcestriam." [Fagopyrufn esculent ii in ^Slcench.J 



•' Gramen cyperoides spied penduld longiore P.irk . . . Bastard Cyperus- 

 grass, with long i)endulous heads ... In fossis Notleias . . . copiose." [Carex 

 pendula Huds.l 



" Gramen parvum marinum spica loliacea Ger. emac lib, I. cap: 22. n. 8 . . 

 Dwarf-Darnel-grass, . . . juxta Camalodunum. ZTz/ZZ-^/vVT^oe-, & alibi in Essexia." 

 \Leptunis flifonnis, var. incurvatus (Trin.)] 



" Lepidium latifolium C.B. . . . Dittander or Pepperwort. Near Fullbridge 

 iit Maldon, the hith at Colchester, and elsewhere in Essex." \Lepidmni 

 latifoUiun L.] 



" Limonium GevT To which is added the note to which 

 reference has already been made, " Alteram speciem a Lobelio 

 inventam in agris Colcestrensibus prope mare memorat 

 Parkinsonus . . . Ego unicam dumtaxat speciem in Anglia 

 spontaneam agnosco." 



Potamogeton pusillum gramineo folio maritimum, Sea-Pondweed, with grassie 

 leaves. This grows in the ditches of water in the salt-marshes, into which the 

 water flows every Tide. About Maldon ..." 



In the Histovia vol. i., p. igo, no. 9, this is recorded from 

 ^' Tidal ditches in salt marshes," and from the specimen in the 

 Sloane Herbarium there referred to, this plant appears to be 

 Potamogeton intevvuptus Kit. vav. scoparius, i.e. P. mavinusoi Hudson, 

 but not of Linnaeus. 



" Thlaspi Dioscoridis. . . Treacle Mustard. Cornfields about Worming- 

 ford " {Thlaspi arvense Z.] 



" Thlaspi minus Ger. angustitolium Fuchsii, Xasturtium sylvestre J. Bauhiui 

 J. B. Nasturtium sylvestre L, seu Osyridis folio Park. C. B. Bozvyer's 

 Mustard. . . Near the Sea in many places, v.g., ^Slaldon in Essex." 

 \Lepidium ruderale Z.] 



" Tilia foemina Ger. foemina major /'<z/)^. foemina folio majore C.B. vulgaris 

 platyphyllos J.B. Tlie female Lime ^ Liiie or Linden-ttee. . . In Essexia in 

 uemore duobus a Colcestria mill. Tiir.'''' \T ilia -vulgaris Hayne.] 



This is the form which, as already pointed out [Essex 

 Naturalist xi., pp. 59-60], Ray in his Histovia doubts as 

 indigenous. 



" Tilia folio minorey.i?. foemina minor Park, foemina folio minore C.B. Small 

 leaved Lime, or Linden-tree ; in some Countreys called Bast. . . . Li 



