HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



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qnonindam of Camerarius, which would seem, as Mr. Jackson 

 points out,'' to be Sisyiiibniiin slrictissimiim L., Johnson says : - ^" 



■' Without doubt this is the very plant that our Author mistooke for 

 SoUdago Sarnicenica, for he bewraies liimselfe in the chapter of Epimedium 

 whereas he saith it has cods Hke Sarracens Consound ; when as both he 

 and all other giue no cods at all to Sarracens Consound. My very "ood 

 friend Mr. John Goodyer was the first, I thinke, that obserued this mistake 

 in our Author." 



At the same time Sisymhnum strictissimmn is neither British, 

 nor very likely to have occurred at Dunmow. 



p. 349. " Virga aurea. Golden Rod" and " Virga aurea Arnoldi 

 Villanouani. Arnold of the new towne his Golden Rod. . . They both 

 growe plentifully . in a wood by Rayleigh in Essex." [Solidugo 



virgaurea L.] 



On the second of these forms Messrs. Trimen and Dyer 

 write : — -' 



"A dwarf form was distinguished by the old botantists. Gerarde calls it 

 V.-a. Arnoldi Villa novaiii. and both he and Johnson mention it in Hampstead 

 Wood. It is probably F.-rt. vulgari Immilior {R. Syn. in. 176) on Hampstead 

 Heath ; Huds. i. 319 ; and nearly answers to Smith's var Cambvica." 



p. 352. " Gentiana minor Cruciata . Crossewoort Gentian groweth 



in a pasture at the west ende of little Rayne iu Essex, on the north side of the 

 waie leading fram Braintrie to much Dunmow ; and in the horse way by the 

 same close." [Gentiana cruciata L.] 



This error, as it almost certainly is [Gibson p. 205] may 

 have arisen by a slip for Blackstonia, Eryihraa or Galium cruciata 

 Scop. 



p. 358. " Helleborine. Wilde white Hellebor . . groweth . . in 

 the woods of Dunmowe in Essex : . . in a little groue of Juniper, and in 

 a woode by Clare in Essex." [Cephalanthera pallens Rich.] 



p. 365. "Trachclium minus. Small Canterburie bels . groweth . , 



in Hennyngham parke in Essex." [Campanula glomerata L.] 



p. 376. " Of Sea stocke Gilloflowers." "These plants do growe neere 

 vnto the Sea side, about Colchester." 



Gerard enumerates no less than five kinds. Johnson {op. cit 

 p. 461) doubts whether any except perhaps Leiicoium manmim 

 pni'pureum L'ObeliJ have been found wild. Gibson in the 

 "Additions and Corrections" to his Flora, p. 456, rightly 

 identifies this one species with Mathiola sintiata R.Br., at the same 

 time pointing out that it " is probably a mistake " to have 

 recorded it for Essex. 



ig Catalogue of plants . . in the garden of John Gerard, -p. ^1. 



20 Gerard emac. p. 275 



21 Flora of Middlesex , p. 150. 



