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ut ejus ope Hl'storia nostra aliquot mendis repurgata, et speciebus 

 aucta sit." In the first two volumes of the Historia, which 

 comprise nearly 2,ooo pp. folio, some 6,900 plants are described. 

 Of these only a comparatively small proportion are British and 

 of these last only the less common are localised, so that the 

 number of species recorded from Essex is not very great. 

 Though many of these were the result of Dale's collecting, there 

 are others, chiefly from Faulkbourne or Black Notley, sufficient 

 to disprove the notion that Ray was entirely a closet naturalist. 



A third edition of the Catalogus being required, Ray, as he had 

 been advised by his friend, Dr. Ralph Johnson, determined to 

 replace its merely alphabetical arrangement by one in accordance 

 with his views on taxonomy; but, as a preliminary, issued in 

 the same year as the second volume of the Historia, a 

 27 pp. supplement to the Catalogus, entitled Fasciculus Stivpium 

 Bvitamiicavum, post editum Plantavnm Anglic Catalogiini ohsevvatavum, 

 which, in addition to several rare Alpine plants from Wales and 

 others from Cornwall, describes several new fungi, mosses and 

 grasses and other plants, collected by Dale in Essex. Many of 

 these had already been described in the two volumes of the 

 Historia, although not in the Catalogus. 



The records in the first and second volumes of the Historia 

 are : — 



'''Ahnfeltia plicata J. Ag. 

 '^'Halidrys siliquosa Lyngb. 



" Conferva palustris." 

 ■'Ltinularia vulgaris Michel. 

 Potamogeton interniptus Kit. var. scoparius. 

 ■^^Ruppia rostellata Koch. 

 ^^Atriplex littoralis L. var. serrata Moq. 

 A. laciniata L. 

 '^'Hypochceris maculata L. 

 Peucedanum officinale L. 

 Bupleurum tenuissimnm L. 

 Cynoglossum germanicmn J acq. 

 "^Mentha rotundifolia Huds. 

 Damasonium stellatnm Pers. 

 '''Sisymbrium irio L. 

 Lepidium laiifolium L. 



