60 HISTOR\ OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



but he may here refer to T. platyphyllos, Scop./° and as usual 

 takes no care to distinguish between indigenous and planted 

 species. This is the earliest record of the genus in Britain. 



What I take to be a record of Hellehovits viridis, L., has no 

 figure to it, and runs as follows (p. i6o) : 



" I dare not saye that ever I founde the righte black Hellebor, but thys I 

 dare holde, that a man for defaut of it, maye use verye well that kinde of bear 

 foot that goeth every yeare into the grounde, whereof groweth greate plentye 

 in a parke besyde Colchester, and in the west parke besyde Morpeth." 



In this determination I differ, on the grounds of Hellehonis 

 viridis both being wild and having annual stems, from Pulteney, 

 who in his MSS. considers H.fistidus, L., to be referred to," and 

 from my friend Mr. B. D. Jackson, who in his edition of the 

 LibeUns (p. 12) amends his reference (p. 3) to Vevatrum nigrum, L. 

 of a plant " quam vulgus cantabrigiense vocat Bearefote " by 

 referring it to Helleborus niger, L. I probably should also dissent 

 from Mr. Britten's reference of the Bearfot or Consiligo of the 

 A ^;«r5 0/ //r;'/)fs to this latter e.xotic species.'-' The true explana- 

 tion appears in Mr. Jackson's edition of Gerard's Catalogus,'^ 

 p. 36.'* 



On pp. 164-5. Turner gives the following interesting record 

 of the mistletoe, with a very good figure of the plant. 



" The best missel byrde lyme is . . . made of a certayn round fruyte 

 that groweth in an oke, the leafe of the bushe, that beareth it, is iyke unto 

 boxe. It groweth also in apple and crab trees and peare trees and other trees 

 and somtyme at the rootes of som bushes. . . . This Missel doth grow 

 no other wayes, but by ye sede in such places whereas byrdes have devoured 

 the fruyt, and have [discharged it] in the tre. I never sawe more plentye of 

 righte oke miscel, then Hugh Morgan shewed me in London. It was sente to 

 hym oute of Essex ; where as there is more plentye then in anye place of 

 Englande that I have ben in." 



10 Gerard gives a similar record (Herball, 1597, p. 1299): " Neare Colchester, and in 

 many places alongst the highway leading from London to Heninjham, in the Countie of 

 Essex." Ray's correction runs as follows : — Turnerum & Gerarduni errasse existimo cum 

 in Essexia Anglias hoc genus copiose provenire aiunt, nam quamvis ipse Essexiffi incola sum, 

 neque inibi neque alibi in Anglia Tiliam foeminam vulgarem platyphyllon sponte nascentem 

 vidi. Quae frequens in sepibiis &: sylvis apud nos invenitur Tilia est minore folio J.B. & 

 aliorum." The frequency of this small-leaved Linden round Black Notley was noticed during 

 our Field Meeting, 23rd July, 1898. The identity of the species, hitherto known as T. cordata 

 Miller, T. parvifolia Ehrhart, or T. ulmifolia Scopoli, has been recently established by Mr. 

 E. G. Baker (Journal of Botany, 1898, pp. 318-g). 



11 Flora Anglica abbreviata, MS. in the Botanical Department, British Museum, gen. 760. 



12 Op. cit. p. 94. 



13 A Catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard. . . edited with . . 

 a life of the author by B. D. Jackson (privately printed), London, 1876. 4to. 



14 Mr. W. A. Clarke, F.L.S., in his First Records of Biitish Floiuering Plants, London, 

 1897. p. 7, also refers this record to H. viridis. 



