HISTORY OF ESSEX BOTANY. l8l 



" 2, Limonium medium Anglicum. The Colchester Marsh Buglosse. This 

 other sort is like unto the former, but lesser in leaves, and lower in stalkes, 

 being little more than a foote high, the flowers are of the same colour with it, 

 and almost as great, but the roote being reddish is much lesse . . The 



second is of our owne Land found out by Doctor Lobcl, in the fieldes neere the 

 Sea by Colchester." 



The " former " is undoubtedly Statice limonium L. When 

 Gibson writes " Gerard's figure seems quite as like S. hahusiensis ; 

 but he does not distinguish the plants " {Flora p. 252), he, pre- 

 sumably from his reference, refers to Johnson's figure [Ger. em. 

 p. 411) and not to Gerard's (Herbal, p. 332), though neither, to 

 my mind, much resemble the species we now know as 5. rarifiora 

 Drej. On this smaller form Ray writes (Synopsis methodica Stir- 

 pium Britannicarum, ed. i., 1690, p. 61). 



" Aliam speciem Limonii a Lobelio inventam in agris Colcestrensibus 

 prope mare memorat Parkinsonus : Gerardus quoque Limonium minus a se 

 observatum scribit in clivis maritimis insulae Thanet prope Margate. Nos 

 unicam duntaxat speciem in Anglia spontaneam observavimus, quae tamen 

 magnitudine insigniter variat ratione loci in quo oritur ; major scilicet quae in 

 palustribus salsis, minor quae in clivis & rupium fissuris." 



In the Appendix furnished by Petiver to the second edition 

 of the Synopsis (1696), p. 342, however, appears the following 

 addition : — 



" Limonium minus a D. Dre. Plukenet in Anglia repertum & collectum 

 hoc anno florens a me conspectum in Horto Regio S, Jacobi, a vulgari majore 

 manifeste distinctum esse agnovi, non solum quod minus sit, sed quod folia 

 alls continuentur usque ad radicem, adeo ut folia pediculis carere dicipossint ; 

 Doody." 



In the third or Dillenian edition of the Synopsis (1724), p. 

 202, whilst Ray's original statement of his belief that there is 

 but one British species stands unmodified, tliis note of Doody's 

 follows it, with the addition. 



" Dood. Syn. II. 342. Prope Harwich. Limonium minus maritimum 

 nostras Pluk. Aim. 220. Limonium parvum Ger. 332. Etn. 411. At Rams- 

 gate in Kent. Mr. Dale." 



This Ramsgate specimen is in the British Museum 

 Herbarium and is S. occidentalis Lloyd. The Dillenian Synopsis 

 then adds this third species :- - 



*3. Limonium Anglicum minus, caulibus ramosioribus, floribus in spicis 

 rarius sitis R. Hist. IIL 247. I found this on the Sea-banks, by the Tide-mill 

 at lValto)i in Essex, and the same (only larger) on the Sea-banks of the Marsh 

 on the left hand of the Road from Heybridge to Maiden in the same County ; 

 Mr. Dak. Found also by Mr. Sherard and Mr. Rand, at the Mouth of the 

 River that runs from Chichester. Folia longiora sunt & magis acuminata, 

 serius etiam floret Caeteris speciebus flores magis umbellatim dispositi sunt 

 & densius stipati ; D. Duody. 



