HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



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To Johnson's work we seem to owe the addition of only six 

 species to our Essex list, for one of which he is only indirectly to 

 be credited. They are 



Damasonmm alisma Mill. Gaieopsis angustifolia Ehr. 



Linum catharticum L. Apinm s!vaveolens L. 



Anagallis ccevulea Sdareh. Tvifolinm fvagifcvnin L. 



The records run as follows : — 

 p. 418. " Plantago aquatica minov stdlata. Starry headed small Water 

 Plantaine .... I found . . a little beyond Ilford, in the way to 

 Rumford." [Damasonium alisma Miller. The first British record.] 



p. 559. " Linum sylvestre catharticum. Mil-mountaine. my friend Mr. 

 John Goodyer . . . told me he had long knowne the plant, and . . . 

 hath sent me this historie of it, which you shall haue as I receiued it from 



him It groweth ... on Purfleet hils in Essex." [Linum 



catharticum L.] 



p. 61S. " Anagallis fcemina. Female Pimpernell . . . differeth not 

 from the male in any one point but in the colour of the floures ; tor 

 this plant briugeth forth floures of a most perfect blew colour .... I 

 also being in Essex in the company of my kind friend Mr. Nathaniel Wright 

 found this among the corne at Wrightsbridge, being the seate of Mr. John 

 Wright his brother." \_AnagaUis dsrulea Schreb.] 



p. 699. " There is another plant that growes frequently in the Corne 

 fields of Kent, and by Purfleet in Esse.x . . . Camcrarius calls it Sideritis 

 arvensis florc rubro and in the Historia Lugd. it is named Tctrahit angusti folium, 

 and thought to be Ladanum segetum oi Pliny, mentioned lib. 29, cap. 8. and lib. 

 26, cap. II. It hath astalke some foot or better high, set with sharp pointed 

 longish leaues, hauing two or three nickes on their sides, and growing by 

 couples ; at the top of the branches, and also the maine stalks it selfe, stand in 

 one or two roundles faire red hooded floures : the root is small and fibrous, 

 dying euery yeare when it hath perfected the seed. It floures in July and 

 August. This is also sometimes found with a white floure." [Gaieopsis 

 angustifolia Ehr. ?] 



This form, the G. canesccns of Schultz seems more frequent 

 than the G. iiitevmedinin Vill. 



p. 1014. " Eleoselinum, siue Pahidapium." Smallage. It growes wilde 

 abundantly vpon the bankes in the salt marshes of Kent and Essex." [Apium 

 graveokns L.] 



p. 1208. " Tri/oliuin fragiferuin. Straw-berry Trefoile . . . growes in 

 most salt marishes, as . . in those below Purfleet." [Trifolium fraoi- 

 fcrum L,] 



Of John Goodyer, to whom we owe the record of Liiiniii 

 catharticum, we know but little. Johnson in his address ' To the 

 Reader ' says " In the first place let me remember the onely 

 Assistant I had in this Worke, which was Mr. John Goodyer of 

 Maple-Durham in Hampshire, from whom I received many 

 accurate descriptions, and some other observations concerning 



