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in August, 1650, and was buried in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. 

 His additions to the Essex list are the following : — 



Mentha pule ginm L. (Theatnim, p. 29). 



Veybascimi nigrum L. (p. 61). 



Atvopa belladonna L. (p. 348). 



Chrysosplenium oppositifolmm L. (p. 425.) 



Stachys paliistns L. 



Silene anglica L. 



Angelica sylvestris L. 



Lathyvus sylvestris L. ? 



Lomaria spicant Desv. 



Salix helix L. 



Of these records two, viz., Chrysosplenium oppositifolium and 

 Lathyrus sylvestris, are not referred to by Gibson ; but, in his 

 table of earliest and latest notices {Flora of Essex, p. 412), he, by 

 a natural misunderstanding, makes Parkinson record Vinca minor, 

 whilst the passage [Theatrum, p. 383) undoubtedly refers to 

 Clematis vitalba. Some special interest attaches to the following 

 records : — 



pp. 83-4. "Matricaria bullatis floribiis aureis. Naked Featherfew. This 

 kinde differeth not from the former, but that it hath his flowers, without any 

 of the pale or border of white leaves about it, and therefore being naked, and 

 without those leaves I have named it naked Featherfew .... grew in 

 Essex, and was there found by a gentleman called Master William Coys." 



This is some abnormally rayless chamomile, perhaps 



Chrysanthemum parthenium Pers. 



p. 425. " Saxifraga aurea. Golden Saxifrage ... at Chepstow in 

 Essex." 



The figure represents Chrysosplenium oppositifolium ; but 

 whether " Chepstow " or " Essex " be a slip it is difficult to say. 



p. 588. " Sidcritis Anglica strumosa radice. Clownes Woundwort . . . 

 in Essex by the ditch sides, and on the ditches sides on the left hand of the 

 high way beyond Stratford Boiv" 



This plant, Stachys palustris, named Clown's Woundwort by 

 Gerard, is one ol those species deUghtfully idealised by Mr. 

 Walter Crane in his Floral Fantasy. 



pp. 638-640. " Lychnis arvcnsis minor Anglica. The small white field 

 Campion . . . groweth in divers grounds by Colchester in Essex, and in 

 a field called the Millfield, behind the house of Sr. Thomas Lucees neare 



Colchester.'" 



Silene anglica is still mainly confined to the north-east of the 

 county. 



