172 .HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



p. 839. Pentaphyllum rubrum palustre. Marsh Cinkfoile . . . groweth 

 in a marrish ground adioining to the land called Bourne ponds, halfe a mile 

 from Colchester ; from whence I brought some plants for my garden, where 

 they flourish and prosper well. [Potent ilia palustyis Scop. The first precisely 

 British record ; but this species occurs in Gerard's first Catalogue of his 

 garden, published in 1596.] 



p. 896. " Peucedanum or Hogs Fennell groweth very plentifully on the 

 South side of a wood belonging to Waltham, at the Nase in Essex by the 

 high-way side.'" [Peucedanum officinale L.] 



No doubt Waltham is a mistake for Walton. As Gibson 

 says (Flora, p. 139), "Although this remarkable plant has only 

 been noticed here and in a few Kentish stations, Gerard and Ray 

 seem to have been as well acquainted with it as ourselves." 



p. 954. "Asparagus sativus. Garden Sperage . groweth wild in 



Essex, in a meadow adioining to a mill, beyond a village called Thorp . 



Likewise it groweth in great plentie neere vnto Harwich, at a place called 

 Landamar lading." [Asparagus officinalis L. This last locality is printed 

 " Bandamar " by Johnson. 



p. 966. " Asperula flore Cisrtileo. Blew Woodroofte . . in many places 

 of Essex." [Shcrardia arvensis L.] 



P- 971. " Filix florida, siue Osmunda Regalis. Water Feme or Osmund 

 Royall . . . vpon diuers bogges on a heath or common neere vnto 

 Bruntwood in Essex, especially neere vnto a place there that some haue 

 digged, to the end to finde a nest or mine of gold ; but the birds were ouer 

 fledge, and flowne away before their wings could be clipped." [Ostnunda 

 regalis L.] 



p. 976. " Phyllitis miiltifida. Finger Harts-tongue . . I found in the 

 garden of Master Cranwich a Chirurgion dwelling at Much-dunmow in Essex, 

 who gaue ma a plant for my garden." [Scolopendrium vulgare Symons.] 



p. 982. Filicula petraa/aemina, sive ChamafiUx marina Anglica. The female 

 dwarfe stone Feme . , groweth vpon the rockie cliff'e neere Harwich." 

 [Asplenium marinum L.] 



It is possible that this species may have existed on the Essex 

 coast in the time of Gerard and have been lost by the wearing 

 away of the cliffs. It is not mentioned in Gibson's Flora. 



p. 983. " Ruta muraria, sive Saluia vitcB. Wall Rue, or Rue Maiden-haire 

 . . Stone Rue groweth . . vpon the Church walls of Railey in 



Essex." [Asplenium ruta-muraria L.] 



p. 1000. " Eryngium mCirinum. Sea Holly . growes by the sea side 



vpon the baich and stony ground. I found it growing plentifully . . in 



_Essex at Landamer lading, at Harwich, and vpon Langtree point, on the other 



side of the water, from whence I haue brought plants for my garden.'' 



Eryngium maritimxitn L.] 



p. 1006. " Dipsacus minor, sive Virga pastoris. Sheepheards-rod . 

 another kinde of Teasell, being a wilde kinde therof, and accounted among 

 these Thistles, growing higher than the rest of his kindes ; but his knobbed 

 heads are no bigger than a Nutneg . . . I found growing in moist places 



