lyo HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



sundry places ... It groweth ... in sundry places of Esse.x." 

 [Linai'ia spuria Mill., though the figure does not much resemble that species, 

 and L. elatina Mill.] 



p. 507. " Prunella. Selfe-heale Prunell or Brunei hath square 



hairy stalks of a foot high, beset with long, hairy and sharpe pointed leaues. 

 and at the top of the stalks grow floures thicke set together, like an eare or 

 spiky knap, of a browne colour mixed with blew floures, and sometimes whita, 

 of which kind I found some plants in Essex neere Henningham castle." 

 [Prunella vulgaris L.] 



p. 518. " Gnaphalium niarinuin. Sea Cudweed . . . groweth at a 

 place called Merezey, six miles from Colchester, neere vnto the sea side." 

 [Diotis candidissima Desf. The first British record.] 



p. 5G8. " Lamium lutenm. Yellow Archangell ... in many . . 

 copses about Lee in Essex. [Laviiunt galeobdolon Crantz. The first British 

 record.] 



p. 577. " Serratnla purpurea, sine alba. Saw-woort with purple, or white 

 floures . . . in sundry places of Essex." [Serratula tinctoria 'L. As John- 

 son says (Ger. em. p. 713), Gerard " out of Tabernamontanus gaue three figures, 

 with as many descriptions of this plant, yet made it onely to vary in the 

 colour ot the floures, being either purple, white, or red ; but he did not touch 

 the difference which Tabernamontanus by his figures exprest,'" as to the incision 

 of the leaves] 



p. 587. Morsns Diaboli. Diuels bit ... at Lee in Essex, and at 

 Raleigh in Essex, in a wood called Hammerell, and sundrie other places . . 



superstitious people hold opinion, that the diuell for enuie that he 

 beareth to mankinde bit it off, because it would be otherwise good for many 

 vses." [Scabiosa succisa L.] 



p. 646 '^Digitalis alba. White Fox-gloues ... by Colchester in 

 Essex." [Digitalis purpurea L.] 



p. 659. " Cynoglossum minus folio virente. Small greene leaued Hounds- 

 tongue . groweth very plentifully by the waies side as you ride 

 Colchester highway from Londonward, betweene Esterford and Wittam in 

 Essex." [Cynoglossum germamcnm Jacq. The first British record. Messrs. 

 Trimen and Dyer erroneously suggest that Petiver's Middlesex list in Gibson's 

 Camden (1695) is the earliest." ==] 



p. 690. " SoldancUa marina. Sea Binde-weed neere to Lee in 



Essex, at Mersey in the same countie." [Calystegia soldanella R. Br.] 



p. 693. " Saxifraga alba. White Saxifrage ... in the greene places 

 by the sea side at Lee in Essex, among the rushes, and in sundrie other places 

 thereabout,- and elsewhere. ' [Saxifraga granulata L.] 



p. 713. "Convolvulus minimus spic^-folius. Lauander-leafed Binde-weed 

 . . This Bindweed Pcna saith he neuer saw but in the brinks of quicke- 

 sets and Oliuets in Prouence, Sauoy, and Narbone ; notwithstanding I found 

 it growing in the corne fields about great Dunmow in Essex, in such abund- 

 ance, that it doth much hurt vnto their corne. This kind of Bindweed or 

 Volubilis is like vnto the small Bindweed before mentioned, but it hath a finer 

 floure, plaited or folded in the compasse of the bell very orderly, especially 

 before the Sun rise (for after it opens it selfe the welts are not so much per- 

 22 Flora 0/ Middlesex, p. 189. 



