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Mentha angusti/olia splcata C.B., spicata folio longiore, acuto, glahro 

 nigriore ].^. Romana Ger. Romana angusti/olia sive Caidiaca Park. Spearmint 

 ■or Heart-mint. Hujus odor gravior est & injucundior multo quam Menthre 

 ■cardiacae in hortis cultae." \Mentlia viridis L.] 



'■'■ Mcntastri aqt/atici gefius hirsiUiini spica laxiore. ^SR. Mentha palnstris 

 folio oblongo. C.B. Mentastriim minus. Ger. emac. hirsutujn Park. Hairy 

 Water-mint with a loose spike, and long leaf." [Mentha puhescens Willd. var. 

 palustfis (Sole),] Both found by Mr. Dale, beside Booking River in Essex, the 

 one a little above the Fulling-mill, the other below it in two or three places." 



" Orchis anthropophora oreades Col. anthropophora oreades fccmina Park. 

 . . . Man-Orchis with a green or ferrugmous flower. Found by Mr. Dale 

 in an old gravel-pit at Daliugton near Sudbury in Suffolk." [Aceras anthropophora 

 R. Br.] 



This, as may be seen from the herbaria of Dale and Andrews 



is a mistake for " Ballingdon," on the Essex side of the Stour. 



The mistake is corrected in x\ndre\vs's handwriting in his copy of 



the Dillenian Synopsis, now in the possession of Mr. W. A. Clarke, 



also on one of Dale's tickets to one of the three specimens of this 



species from his herbarium now in the British collection at 



Cromwell Road, and by Ray himself in Gibson's Camden, p. 361. 



Pap'.iver dnhium, " Mr. Dale shew'd it me in our neighbourhood at 

 Booking." 



Ruppia rostellata, from Goldhanger, as in the Historia. 



Prunus insititia. " Observed by Mr. Dale in some hedges both in Essex and 

 Suffolk." 



Viola hirta. "Found by Mr. Dale in Essex and Cambridgeshire in several 

 places." 



\To he continued.^ 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON TREE-TRUNK 



\A/'ATER-PIPES. 



By T. V. HOLMES, F.G.S., F. Anthrop. Inst. 



WHEN collecting the information about Tree - trunk 

 Water-pipes, which has already appeared in the 

 Essex Naturalist,^ I was much struck by the great difficulty 

 of foreseeing where they were likely to be mentioned, or who 

 might possess any knowledge of them. As a consequence of the 

 publication of my remarks, I have learned some additional 

 details about them from various sources. And considering the 

 oblivion which so soon enshrouds obsolete contrivances when the 

 last generation which knew, and used them, has passed away, they 

 seem worth adding to those already given. 



In the first place, my friend, Mr. VV. Whitaker, F.R.S., 



I Vol. xiii., pages 60-75 (July, 1903). 



