HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 1 73 



in the high way leading from Braintree to Henningham castle in Essex, and 

 not in any other place except here and there a plant vpon the highway from 

 Much-Dunmow to London." Dipsacus pilosus L.] 



p. 1034. '^ MeUlotus germanica . . German Clauer . . no part of 



the world doth enioy so great part thereof as England, and especially Essex ; 

 for I haue seene betweene Sudbury in Suffolk , and Clare in Essex, and from 

 Clare to Heningham, and from thence to Ouendon, Bulmare, and Pedmarsh, 

 very many acres of earable pasture overgrowne with the same ; insomuch 

 that it doth not onely spoyle their land, but the corne also, as Cockle or 

 Darnel, and as a weed that generally spreadeth ouer that corner of the Shire." 

 [Melilotus officinalis Lam. or possibly M. avvensis Willd. in part. Not so trouble- 

 some now-a-days.] 



p. 1057. Hedysdruni Glycyrhizatum. Liquorice hatchet Fetch ... in 

 Essex about Dunmow, and in the townes called Clare and Hennyngham." 

 lAstmgalus glycypliyllos L.] Johnson (Ger. em. p. 1236) adds : — " Also it growes 

 by Purfleet, about the foot of the hill whereon the Wind-mill stands." 



p. 1088. " Rosa Pimpinelli? folio. The Pimpinell Rose . groweth 



very plentifully in a field as you go from a village in Essex, called Graies (vpon 

 the brinke of the riuer Thames) vuto Horndon on the hill, insomuch that the 

 field is full fraught therewith all ouer." [Rosa spinosissinia L. The first 

 British record.] 



p. 1299. " Tilia fasmina. The female Line tree or Linden tree . . . 

 seemeth to be a kinde of Elme, and the people of Essex about Heningham 

 (wheras great plenty groweth by the way sides) do call it broad leafed Elme 

 . . . neere Colchester, and in many places alongst the high way leading 

 from London to Henningham, in the countie of Essex." . [Tilia platyphyllos 

 Scop. Vide supra pp. 59-60.] 



p. 1302. ^' Popidus alba. The white Poplar tree . . in Essex at a place 

 called Ouenden." Populus alba L. The first British record.] 



There is no work of importance containing any reference to 

 Essex botany between Gerard's Hevball and the ' emaciilate ' 

 edition of it pubhshed by Thomas Johnson in 1633, of which 

 there is a copy in the Chib's Hbrary. 



Of WiHiam Coys, of Stul:)bers, in the parish of North 

 Ockington (now written Ockendon), in this county, we unfortu- 

 nately know but very httle. fie had a garden, which both Lobe! 

 and Gerard state to have been richly stored with exotics, and in 

 which the Yucca gloviosa first flowered in England in the year 

 1604.'-' Johnson, in the Appendix to his edition of Gerard, speaks 

 of various exotics received by Coys from Guillaume Boel, a 

 native of the Low Countries, and Parkinson records {Theatriun, 

 pp. 83-4) that he found ' Matricavia hullatis flovibiis auvcis, Naked 

 Featherfew,' probably a ray less form of Matncavia inodora L., in 

 Essex. 



23 Pena and Lobel, Adversaria, i., 501 ; ii., 471. 



