178 HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. 



p. 720. " Mdilotus vulgaris. Common Melilot ... in Esse.x in 

 divers places ... in some places of Essex they call it Hartwort, because 

 they thinke the seede thereof happening into their bread caused paines in the 

 stomacke and chest, which they usually call the Heart burne." [Mdilotus 

 officinalis Lam. 



pp. 1059-1060. Pisum sylvestrc altevum. The other wilde Pease 

 Of this kinde there is another found to grow somewhat larger ... on the 

 chalkie hills at Kings Hay in Kent, not farre from the Thames, and the larger 

 sort hereof in some barren fields in Essex," 



From the habitat I take this to be Lathyyus sylvestris L. 

 previously recorded by Gerard from the Chalk at Swanscombe 

 Wood, Kent. 



pp. 1043-4. " Lonchitis aspciia minor. The smaller rough Splenewort 



There is another of this sort lesser than this, found about 

 Colchester in Essex." [Lomaiia spicant Desv.] 



p. 1064. " Lathyrus annnus. Yearely or Annuall Cichelings .... 

 All these [eight] sorts except the sixt (which I found in clensiug of Anneseede 

 to use) grow in Spaine, and from thence were brought with a number of other 

 rare seedes besides by GuiUuume Boel and imparted to Mr. Coys of Stubbers in 

 Essex in love, as a lover of rare plants, but to me of debt, for going into Spaine 

 almost wholly on my charge hee brought mee little else for my mony, but 

 while I beate the bush another catcheth and eateth the bird : so while I with 

 care and cost sowed them yearely hoping first to publish them, another that 

 never saw them unlesse in my Garden, nor knew of them but by a coUaterall 

 friend, prevents me whom they knew had their descriptions ready for the 

 Presse." 



It would not be easy no\Y to identify these exotic species 

 first grown in an Essex garden. The querulous allusion would 

 seem to be to Johnson, whose " agility '' and " younger yeares '' 

 are slightingly referred to in Parkinson's address ' To the 

 Reader,' since these -plants grown from seeds given to him by 

 Coys in 1620 and 162 1 are described in the Appendix to his 

 edition of Gerard (pp. 1626 — 1629). It is only fair to add that 

 Johnson (p. 1628) acknowledges having gathered some of these 

 seeds " in the garden of my good friend Mr. Joli. Parkinson an 

 Apothecary of London, Anno 1616." 



The Rose Willow, figured on p. 1430, and stated on the 

 next page to occur " in sundry places of Essex " is an aggrega- 

 tion of leaves terminating a shoot of Salix alba E., 5. fragilis L., 

 5. capvca L., or other species, whether pollarded or not, and 

 replacing the scales of a catkin or the foliage-leaves of an 

 ordinary bud. "The gall" for gall it is, "consists of an 

 imbricate mass of shortened, sessile, and crowded leaves ; in the 

 centre is a small, hard, inner gall, which contains one or more 

 larvae of the gall-gnat . . . Cccidoniyia vosaria H. Loew.'"'" 



30 E \. Fitch, " The Galls of Essex," Trans. Essex Field Club, vol. ii., p. 148 ; M. T. 

 Masters, Vegetable Teratology (1869), p. 16S. 



