224 HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



Essexia pluiimam observavi circa Borehani, Terling, Heveninghani, & alibi. 

 \_Tilia platvphyilos Scop.] 



" Trirolium stellatum glahium Get. emac. . . I found near the water-side 

 at Lighe in Essex. \TiifolLuni squamosum L., i.e. T. maritimuin Huds.] 



"Tritolium pumilum supiniim flosculis longis albis P.B. ... in the 

 road between Burnt wood and Brook-street in Essex, &c., abundantly." 

 \Trifoliuin suhlerraneuvi Linn.] 



*' Typha palustris major J.B." and " Typha palustris media J.B." .... 

 " Utramque speciem simul vidi in rivulo quodam juxta sedes Nobiliss. Comitis 

 Warwicensis Leez-house dictas in Essexia." {Typha latifolia Linn, and T. 

 au^usti folia Linn.] 



The second edition of the Catalogus, which appeared in 1677, 



contains no additional Essex matter; but in 1686 and 1688 



appeared the first and second volumes of the Histovia Plantanim. 



From 1666 to 1676 Ray's home had been at Middleton in 



Warwickshire; from Michaelmas 1677 till June, 1679, he was 



living with Edward Bullock at Faulkbourne Hall ; and for the 



remaining twenty-five years of his life, his home was the 



Dewlands, Black Notley (the house unfortunately burnt 



down recently), where he died on January 17th, 1705. 



It was, no doubt, on his settling at Black Notley that Ray first 



became intimate with Samuel Dale, physician and apothecar}^ of 



Brain '.ree. Born in 1658 or 1659, Dale was some thirty years 



Ray's junior, and we have no knowledge as to when the younger 



man settled at Braintree. In the Preface to his Phavmacologia 



(1693), Dale speaks of himself as " Primo initiatus sub Auspiciis 



ExctUentissimi Viri et Reipublicae Philosophicae Principis 



Dignissimi, Joannis Raii." While Ray's delicate health and 



enormous literary toil confined him very much to his own home, 



his young disciple, in pursuit at once of his profession and of his 



hobb , visited many parts of Essex and Suffolk, besides making 



occasional journeys to greater distances. Gifted undoubtedly 



with great critical acumen, and confining his attention mainly 



to Br.tisii plants, Dale seems in accuracy of detail even to have 



surpas ed his master ; and the value of his services to Ray is 



evinc d by the way in which he is spoken of, when only six or 



seven and twenty, in the Preface to the first volume of the 



Histo in (1686). Ray's words are " D. Samuel Dale, Medicus 



et Pljannacopaeus vicinus et familiaris noster, Brantriae in Essexia 



degei. , qui libris diligenter collatis Synonyma examinavit, errata 



corre v.t, et omissa supplevit, praeterea si quas species per 



incur am aut festinationem omissas observavit, me commonefecit, 



